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By: EconomyWatch   Date: 4 August 2009

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Data released by the National Stock Exchange (NSE) indicated that exchange traded funds (ETF) and exchange traded notes (ETN) had received $12.5 billion in net investor inflows in May 2009. While the net inflows into ETNs stood at $240 million, the figure for ETFs was $12.3 billion. This took the assets in the industry to $603.5 billion from $594.3 billion, with an uneven market diminishing the impact.

 

While there were net inflows into ETFs of all major asset classes in June 2009, fixed-income ETFs topped the list, with $3.5 billion in net inflows.

 

Top ETF

Top ETFs as of June 2009 were:

  • US Natural Gas ETF: Trading under the ticker symbol UNG, this ETF is designed to track the movements of natural gas prices in percentage terms. The US Natural Gas ETF received the largest net inflows in June, with $1.7 billion in new investment flowing into the fund.

  • iShares Barclays TIPS: This ETF, which trades under the ticker symbol TIP, seeks to deliver results corresponding to the US Treasury market as defined by the Barclays Capital US Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) Index (Series-L). iShares Barclays TIPS received $942 million of inflows in June 2009. Total inflows from year start to June 2009 for the fund were $4,959 million.

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  • Vanguard Emerging Markets: Trading under the ticker symbol VWO, it received total inflows of $777 million in June. The extent of total inflows confirmed investor preference for emerging markets. However, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, which tracks the same index as Vanguard Emerging Markets but charges higher fees, suffered net outflows of $1.7 billion during the month.

  • SPDR Retail: This ETF tracks the total return performance of the S&P Retail Select Industry index and trades under the ticker symbol XRT. The total inflows in this ETF were $709 million during the month and $591 million from year start to June 30, 2009.

  • iShares S&P 500: Trading under the ticker symbol IVV, this ETF received net inflows of $642 million during the month.


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