Assets under management of European equity exchange-traded funds rose by 3.2 per cent to EUR117.5bn during the week ending 11 January, according to research by Deutsche Bank.
AUM for DJ Euro Stoxx 50 ETFs was EUR23.4bn accounting for 19.9 per cent of total European AUM.
Fixed income ETF AUM remained at about the same level at EUR36.3bn.
Overall, the largest ETF by AUM was Lyxor ETF DJ Euro Stoxx 50, an equity based ETF, with AUM of EUR5.3bn. The largest fixed income ETF by AUM was the iShares EUR Corporate Bond with AUM of EUR3.3bn.
Exchange based equity ETF turnover remained at about the same level at EUR1.1bn. European fixed income ETF turnover declined by 2.6 per cent to EUR196.2m.
In exchange based bond ETFs, db x-trackers II Eonia TR Index ETF has the highest daily turnover of EUR15.38m. Among the equity ETFs, iShares Dax (DE) has the highest daily turnover of EUR50.63m.
There were 37 new listings during the week. Julius Baer issued 24 new commodity ETFs on the Swiss Stock Exchange and Source issued nine new ETFs on the London Stock Exchange. UBS issued two new ETFs on Deutsche Borse and Zuercher Kantonalbank launched two new ETFs on the Swiss Stock Exchange. All the new listings were primary listings except those issued by UBS.
European regional ETFs remained at the top position as leading product area with total turnover of EUR361m with 32.75 per cent of total ETF turnover followed by country ETFs with total turnover of EUR265m accounting for 24.04 per cent of total ETF turnover. The Dax ETFs remain the dominant country products with total average daily volume of EUR162m across the fourteen listed products and accounting for 12.9 per cent of all equity ETF volume.
DJ Euro Stoxx 50 ETFs accounted for 15.6 per cent of turnover trading EUR172m per day with liquidity split across 17 ETFs and 44 different listings on nine exchanges.
The Deutsche Borse XTF platform has the largest market share with 36.1 per cent of total turnover. The Euronext NextTrack platform has 17.9 per cent market share. The LSE’s combined Italian Exchange and London market share is now 28.3 per cent.
