ETFGI reports ETFs and ETPs listed in the US gathered 28 billion US dollars in net inflows in April

LONDON — May 14, 2018 — ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm on trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in the USgathered US$28.00 billion net inflows during April 2018, after suffering net outflows of US$10.60 Bn in February and US$2.56 Bn in March, according to ETFGI’s April 2018 US ETF and ETP industry landscape  insights report. Year-to-date net inflows into US listed ETFs/ETPs reached US$93.22 Bn at the end of April which is significantly less than the US$169.71 compare to this point last year. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.) 

Highlights 

  • ETFs and ETPs listed in the US gathered $28.00 billion net inflows during April 2018, after suffering net outflows in prior 2 months
  • US-listed Fixed Income ETFs/ETPs gathered $13.74 Bn net inflows during April  2018, the largest since October 2014, which saw $16.87 Bn in net outflows 
  • In April 2018, 15 new ETFs/ETPs were launched by 12 providers while 59 ETFs/ETPs closed by 8 providers


At the end of April 2018, the US ETF industry had 1,879 ETFs, assets of $3.388 trillion, from 121 providers on 3 exchanges. At the end of April 2018, the US ETF/ETP industry had 2,136 ETFs/ETPs, assets of $3.480 Tn, from 140 providers on 3 exchanges.

Overall the assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed in the US increased by $38.60 Bn during April 2018. The increase of 1.12%, from $3.441 Tn at the end of March 2018 to $3.480 Tn at the end of April, also represents the highest monthly growth in assets since January 2018, which saw a monthly increase of 6.38% from $3.423 Tn to $3.642 Tn. 

US ETF and ETP asset growth as at the end of April 2018

 

In April 2018, ETFs/ETPs saw net inflows of $28.00Bn.  Fixed income ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with $13.74 Bn, followed by equity ETFs/ETPs with $10.12 Bn.

The majority of these flows can be attributed to the top 20 ETFs by net inflows, which collectively have gathered $68.82 Bn during 2018. The iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA US) on its own accounted for net inflows of $16.38 Bn. 
 
Top 20 ETFs by net YTD net inflows: US

Similarly, the top 10 ETPs by net inflows collectively gathered $8.17 Bn during 2018. 
   
Top 10 ETPs by YTD net inflows: US

During April investors chose to move from US Equity ETFs to Fixed Income and Commodities products. 

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About Deborah Fuhr 
Previously Deborah Fuhr served as global head of ETF research and implementation strategy and as a managing director at BlackRock/Barclays Global Investors from 2008 – 2011. She also worked as a managing director and head of the investment strategy team at Morgan Stanley in London from 1997 – 2008, and as an associate at Greenwich Associates. 
 
She has been working with investors, ETF, ETP providers, index providers, exchanges, MMs and APs, regulators, trade associations, custodians, law firms, accounting firms around the world since 1997. 
ETFGI is honored to count as our research and consulting clients some of the leading firms in the ETF Ecosystem around the world as well as some new entrants and firms that are considering entering the ETF, ETP industry. 
 
Past awards for Ms Fuhr include she was the recipient of the 100 Women in Finance 2017 European Industry Leadership Award, the 2014 William F. Sharpe Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the field of index investing and she named one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Finance” by Financial News over several years, most recently in 2016. 
 
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