Assets invested in Active ETFs/ETPs listed globally have reached 32.9 billion US dollars a new record at the end of October 2015, according to ETFGI
Assets invested in Active ETFs/ETPs listed globally have reached 32.9 billion US dollars a new record at the end of October 2015, according to ETFGI
LONDON — November 24, 2015 — Assets invested in Active ETFs/ETPs listed globally have reached US$32.9 billion - a new record - at the end of October 2015. In the first ten months of 2015 record levels of net new assets have been gathered by Active ETFs/ETPs listed globally with net inflows of US$8.9 billion marking a 23% increase over the prior record set at this time in 2013.
We are on track to end the year with record net inflows and assets in the global Active ETF/ETP industry.
The Global active ETF/ETP industry had 232 ETFs/ETPs, with 322 listings, assets of US$32.9 billion, from 45 providers on 15 exchanges at the end of October, according to ETFGI’s new Global Active ETF/ETP report for October 2015. Active ETFs/ETPs account for 1.1% of the US$3 trillion invested in the global ETF/ETP industry at the end of October 2015.
The largest market for active ETFs/ETPs is the United States which has US$21.8 billion or 66% of all active ETFs/ETPs assets invested in 133 products, followed by Europe with 19% or US$6.3 billion invested in 20 products, Canada with 12% or US$3.9 billion invested in 65 products and Asia Pacific ex Japan with 2% or US$797 million invested in 14 ETFs/ETPs.
We find that allocations to equity and fixed income exposures in Active ETFs/ETPs at 18% and 73% of total assets are almost a mirror opposite of the allocations to equity and fixed income exposures in index ETFs/ETPs, at 77% and 16% respectively.
“Since 2007 over 80 applications have been filed in the United States with the Securities and Exchange Commission “SEC” for Active ETFs. Currently there are 31 issuers of active ETFs/ETPs in the United States. Many asset managers are waiting to see if/when the SEC allows non-transparent Active ETFs.” according to Deborah Fuhr, managing partner at ETFGI.
Globally, Source gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows in October with US$270 Mn, followed by SPDR ETFs with US$170 Mn and First Trust with US$141 Mn net inflows. Year to date, iShares has gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows with US$1.9 Bn, followed by SPDR ETFs and Source, each with US$1.5 Bn net inflows.
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