European investors poured $3.3 billion into commodities ETFs in the first half of the year. Americans took a completely different approach, withdrawing the equivalent of $1.06 billion from such ETFs. In general, however, Americans placed 399 percent more money into ETFs than Europeans, according to a new infographic by Block-Builders.net.
The picture shown is by no means atypical: While Europeans and especially Germans prefer conservative investments —gold, for example — investors on the other side of the Atlantic are increasingly placing their bets on equities.
The full story with the infographic, facts and more statistics can be read here.