Assets under management of Asia Pacific exchange-traded funds increased by two per cent to USD58.1bn in the week to 24 August, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
Assets under management of Asia Pacific exchange-traded funds increased by two per cent to USD58.1bn in the week to 24 August, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
The largest ETF by AUM is the Topic ETF, managed by Nomura Asset Management, with AUM of USD7.0bn.
Monthly average daily turnover rose 13 per cent to USD1,406m. The largest ETF by turnover was the China 50 ETF issued by China Asset Management with USD468m accounting for 33.2 per cent of total turnover.
There are 181 equity based ETFs in the Asia Pacific region with 235 listings across 12 countries and 15 exchanges. Japan has the largest market share by AUM accounting for 45.12 per cent of the whole market, whilst China has the largest market share by turnover with 55.37 per cent.
There were six new listings during the week. Polaris cross listed one ETF at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and ETF Securities launched five new commodity ETFs at Japan’s Tokyo Stock Exchange.
