Celebrating Canadian ETF Excellence: Trackinsight Supports ETF Issuer Awards at the 2025 ETF Express Canadian Awards

The third annual ETF Express Canadian Awards, hosted at the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), brought together leading voices from across Canada’s ETF ecosystem to recognize the top-performing firms that are shaping the future of the industry.

The event celebrated excellence across issuers and service providers, continuing the legacy of innovation that began on March 9, 1990—the date of the world’s first ETF listing, right on the TSX.

Trackinsight was proud to support the 2025 edition by providing the ETF issuer data used to determine the winners in all issuer-related categories.

As ETF Express’s exclusive data partner for issuer awards, Trackinsight played a key role in enabling a rigorous, data-driven selection process based on quantitative metrics and peer recognition.

How ETF Issuer awards are determined

Trackinsight employs a rigorous methodology to analyze and shortlist candidates for all ETF Express Fund Manager Awards, ensuring a data-driven and objective selection process. It follows these key steps:

1. Deriving the Eligible Universe: Identifying ETFs that were available during the one-year observation period.
2. Adjusting Categories and Sizes: Defining ETF categories (e.g., Equity ETFs, Active ETFs, ESG ETFs) and determining size segments (e.g., USD 100M–USD 1B, USD 1B–USD 5B).
3. Aggregating Category Averages: Calculating the Issuer Category Average AuM for each category.
4. Ranking Issuers: Ranking ETF issuers based on the AuM Relative Progression of their category’s AuM over the one-year observation period.
5. Award Voting: ETF Express organizes a vote among the top three issuers to determine the final award winners in each category.

By running this methodology on its proprietary ETF database, Trackinsight ensures transparency, consistency, and accuracy in identifying the most impactful ETF issuers across multiple regions.

Speaking at the event, Beverly Chandler, Managing Editor of ETF Express, emphasized:
“You have won these awards because of your performance as both issuers of ETFs and service providers to ETFs combined with your popularity with your peers.”

The ETF issuer awards were determined using objective data provided by Trackinsight, followed by a qualitative peer voting process that reflects industry-wide respect and trust. In contrast, the ETF service provider awards were based on a nomination and peer vote process.

Together, this blended approach ensures that each winner is not only a strong performer but also a respected name within the ETF community.

Chandler was joined by Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products at the TSX, and all the winners of the 2025 ETF Express Canadian Awards to close the market in celebration of the event.

Launched in Europe in 2010 and expanded to the U.S. in 2019, the ETF Express awards program made its Canadian debut in 2023. Now in its third year in Canada, the awards have become a staple of industry recognition—celebrating innovation, growth, and leadership in one of the world’s most dynamic ETF markets.

Beverly Chandler added:
“Many congratulations to our winning firms this year in this celebration of the vibrant ETF industry in Canada.”

While the full list of winners will be published in the upcoming 2025 ETF Express Canadian Awards Report, here’s a snapshot of the ETF issuer award winners:

See more ETF Express Canadian Awards winners

Trackinsight is proud to have contributed to this recognition of excellence. As a trusted provider of global ETF data and analytics, we remain committed to supporting ETF issuers, investors, and industry stakeholders with transparent, actionable insights that empower better decisions and highlight the best in the business.

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