These increasingly popular investment vehicles, which aim to tie their returns to various investment indexes, now make up a dynamic universe of 5,200 exchange traded funds and products, according to statistics provided by ETFGI, an independent research and consulting fi rm in London. At the end of April 2014, there were 5,241 exchange traded funds (ETFs) and exchange traded products (ETPs) with nearly 10,240 listings from 221 providers trading on 59 exchanges around the globe, ETFGI reports.