ETFGI Press Release April 2015: Asia Pacific (Ex-Japan)

Assets in ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) reached a new record high of 125.3 billion US dollars at the end of April according to ETFGI

LONDON — May 11, 2015 — Assets in ETFs/ETPs listed in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) reached a new record high of 125.3 billion US dollars at the end of April, according to ETFGI’s preliminary monthly ETF and ETP global insight report for April 2015.

Record levels of assets were reached at the end of April for ETFs/ETPs listed globally at US$2.998 trillion, in the United States at US$2.132 trillion, Europe at US$511 billion, Asia Pacific ex-Japan at US$125 billion, Japan at US$112 billion and Canada at US$69.9 billion.

The Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) ETF/ETP industry had 636 ETFs/ETPs, with 772 listings,  from 110 providers listed on 17 exchanges in 13 countries.

“Market performance outside the United States contributed to the overall increase in assets invested in ETFs/ETPs.  Developed and emerging markets had a very good month, gaining 5% and 8%, respectively while in the United States the S&P 500 and Dow were up less than 1%”, according to Deborah Fuhr, managing partner of ETFGI.

In April 2015, ETFs/ETPs saw net outflows of US$7.8 Bn. Equity ETFs/ETPs experienced the largest net outflows with US$7.9 Bn, followed by commodity ETFs/ETPs with US$54 Mn, while fixed income ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with US$480 Mn.

YTD through end of April 2015, ETFs/ETPs have seen net outflows of US$14.7 Bn. Equity ETFs/ETPs experienced the largest net outflows YTD with US$14.8 Bn, while fixed income ETFs/ETPs gathered net inflows of US$702 Mn and commodity ETFs/ETPs have seen net inflows of US$280 Mn.

HSBC/Hang Seng gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows in April with US$2.6 Bn, followed by SPDR ETFs with US$477 Mn and China Universal with US$333 Mn net inflows.

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