Monthly average daily turnover of Asia Pacific exchange-traded funds declined 2.5 per cent in the week ending 19 November to USD1,619m, according to Deutsche Bank.
The largest ETF by turnover was the iShares Asia Trust – iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker issued by BlackRock with USD313m accounting for 19.3 per cent of total turnover.
Assets under management declined 1.1 per cent to USD75.6bn. The largest ETF by AUM is the Topix ETF managed by Nomura Asset Management with AUM of USD8.8bn.
There was one new listing during the week. UTI Asset Management launched a new commodity fund listed on the India Stock Exchange. The objective of this new product is to track the performance of gold.
There are 242 equity based ETFs in the Asia Pacific region with 336 listings across 12 countries and 15 exchanges. Japan has the largest market share by AUM accounting for 39.38 per cent of the whole market, whilst China has the largest market share by turnover with 40.49 per cent.
