ETFGI reports that ETF inflows for the first half of 2015 surpassed those of 2014. USD152 billion in net new assets was gathered by ETFs and ETPs listed globally in the first half of 2015, according to ETFGI’s preliminary ETF and ETP global insights report for the first half of 2015.
The first half of 2014 saw USD130 billion in net new assets.
The close of June 2015 saw the global ETF/ETP industry with 5,823 ETFs/ETPs, with 11,295 listings, assets of USD2.971 trillion, from 259 providers listed on 62 exchanges in 51 countries, according to ETFGI.
“June was a difficult month for most markets around the world. The S&P 500 index ended June down 2 per cent for the month and finished the first half of 2015 up 1 per cent. Market performance in the first half of 2015 was impacted by a number of uncertainties in the first half of 2015: the situation in Greece and the impact on the Eurozone, when the Fed will raise interest rates, volatility in the Chinese market and the MERS outbreak in South Korea” says Deborah Fuhr, managing partner of ETFGI.
US listed ETFs/ETPs gathered USD103 billion, beating the previous record of USD76 billion gathered in the first half of 2012, while European listed ETFs/ETPs gathered USD40 billion, beating the USD32 billion gathered in the first half of 2014, according to ETFGI.
Figures for the month of June 2015, showed global ETFs/ETPs achieving net inflows of USD24.8 billion. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with USD27.9 billion, while commodity ETFs/ETPs saw net outflows of USD479 million and fixed income ETFs/ETPs experienced net outflows of USD4.0 billion.
Year to date figures to the end of June 2015, ETFs/ETPs have seen net inflows of USD152 billion. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows YTD with USD101.7 billion, followed by fixed income ETFs/ETPs with USD35.4 billion, and commodity ETFs/ETPs with net inflows of USD4.2 billion.
iShares and Vanguard gathered the most inflows in June with USD8.1 billion, followed by Yuanta with USD3.3 billion net inflows.
In the first half of 2015, iShares gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows YTD with USD52.1 billion, followed by Vanguard with USD44.8 billion, WisdomTree with USD20.3 billion and DB/x-trackers with USD19.1 billion net inflows.
