A Pair of ETFs To Consider After a Record-Setting 2020 January 7, 2021 Despite the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on the capital markets in 2020, the ETF industry showed its ability to not only weather the storm but to prosper in spite of it. Factor-based funds were also winners, which puts funds like the “It was a year of ETF records,” wrote Ben Johnson in a Morningstar article. “New records were set for total flows; flows into bond ETFs; flows into environmental, social, and governance ETFs; and flows into active ETFs. There was a record number of new ETFs launched, and a record number of ETFs closed.”