Assets under management of Asia Pacific exchange-traded products decreased marginally last week by USD237m and ended at USD119.5bn, according to figures released by Deutsche Bank.
On a year-to-date basis, Asia Pacific ETP market is up by USD28bn or 30.6 per cent above last year’s closing.
Asia Pacific ETP turnover totalled USD2.4bn last week, 66 per cent down from the previous week’s total due to the holidays in the most active markets of the region (China, South Korea and Hong Kong).
South Korea continued to top the turnover ranking with USD1.1bn, followed by Japan (USD0.5bn), Hong Kong (USD0.4bn), Taiwan (USD0.1bn), and Singapore (USD0.1bn).
Among equity ETFs, the emerging country, leveraged strategy, Asia Pacific developed country, and short strategy ETFs had total turnovers of USD0.7bn, USD0.6bn, USD0.5bn, and USD0.2bn respectively. Among the commodity asset class, turnover in gold ETPs totalled USD98m.
