US exchange traded fund turnover remained almost stable over the week ending 20 February, with a monthly average daily turnover of USD82.9bn, according to Deutsche Bank ETF researchers
US exchange traded fund turnover remained almost stable over the week ending 20 February, with a monthly average daily turnover of USD82.9bn, according to Deutsche Bank ETF researchers Aram Flores and Shan Lan.
Turnover in the S&P 500 SPDR was USD29.6bn. The PowerShares QQQ Nasdaq 100 had turnover of USD4.7bn followed by the UltraShort Financials ProShares with turnover of USD4.6bn.
One new ETF was launched in the previous week. State Street Global Advisors issued a fixed-income ETF linked to the Barclays Capital Intermediate Term Credit Bond Index, listed on NYSE Arca.
Short-related ETF turnover rose four per cent to USD13.8bn, being the second largest category of ETFs after large cap ETFs.
Among the emerging country ETFs, iShares FTSE/Xinhua China ETF turnover was USD950m, followed by the iShares MSCI Brazil ETF with turnover of USD741m.
In non-US developed market flows, iShares MSCI Japan had turnover of USD248m. In non-US regional flows, emerging market turnover was USD1.86bn and developed markets regional flows had turnover of USD1.29bn.
Total assets under management for equity based ETFs declined 11 per cent on the previous week to USD348bn.
