Assets held in exchange-traded funds have continued to fall, but the industry is still expected to top $1 trillion (€731bn) next year, the latest report from a leading figure in the ETF sector has claimed.

According to Debbie Fuhr, who is now a managing director in Barclays Global Investors' ETF research implementation strategy team, global ETF assets stood at $764bn at the end of September. This was a fall from the end of April, when they were $805bn.