Assets invested in ETFs/ETPs listed globally broke through the $3trn milestone at the end of May to reach a new record of $3.015 trn in assets under management (AUM), according to ETFGI’s preliminary monthly ETF and ETP global insight report for May 2015.
At the end of May 2015, the global ETF/ETP industry had 5,757 ETFs/ETPs, with 11,117 listings, from 256 providers listed on 62 exchanges in 51 countries.
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ETFGI managing partner Deborah Fuhr said: "Our forecast was that assets would break through US$3 trillion by the middle of 2015. It took the global ETF/ETP industry 19 years to reach US$1 trillion in assets under management, 23 years to reach US$2 trillion in AUM and just 25 years to reach US$3 trillion in AUM. The increasing rate of asset growth illustrates how ETFs have been embraced as an investment solution by institutional investors, financial advisors and retail investors around the world."
Record levels of assets were also reached at the end of May for ETFs/ETPs listed in the United States at $2.15trn and Japan at $117 bn.
"In May the both the S&P 500 and the Dow were up 1% while, developed markets were down 1%, and emerging markets declined 3%," according to Fuhr.
In May 2015, ETFs/ETPs listed globally saw net inflows of $19.1bn. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered net inflows of $20.8bn, while fixed income ETFs/ETPs experienced net outflows of $1.5bn and Commodity ETFs/ETPs had net outflows of $912m.
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By GlobalDataThrough the end of May record levels of net new assets (NNA) have been reached by ETFs/ETPs listed globally gathering $127.6bn which is a significant increase over the prior record of $109.4bn gathered in in the first five months of 2013.
YTD products listed in Europe gathered $39.2bn which is significantly more than the prior record of $26.4bn gathered over the same period in 2014.
ETFs/ETPs listed in Japan gathered $14.5bn, which is slightly higher than the $14.3bn gathered during the same period in 2014, and ETFs/ETPs listed in Canada gathered $5.6bn which is slightly higher than the prior record of $5.5bn gathered in the first 5 months of 2012.
Vanguard gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows in May with $5.2bn, followed by Huatai-PB with $3.4bn, WisdomTree with $1.7bn net inflows and First Trust with $1.6bn.
