Yahoo Finance Weekly ETF Fund Flows: VWO Adds Assets
ETF investors poured money into international equities, those focused on the emerging markets in particular, in the week ended June 21, in what appeared to be a partial return to riskier assets at the expense of U.S. stocks funds.
The Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (VWO - News) and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM - News) – the reigning titans in the emerging markets space – were some of the most popular funds last week, gathering $582.9 million and $226.0 million, respectively.
The demand for international equities came at a time when the U.S. stock market bounced around with volatility in a reflection of still-developing concern about U.S. growth in the face of Europe’s crushing debt burdens and slowing growth in China.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the five trading days ended June 21 78.34 points lower, after suffering a 250-point decline on the final day of that period.
International equity ETFs attracted nearly $1.3 billion in assets, helping offset the $182.8 million outflow from U.S. equities funds. Total U.S. ETF assets in the week of June 14 through June 21 fell to $1.158 trillion from $1.160 billion seven days earlier. The asset total included market movement.
Mixed Picture
Still, the appetite for risk wasn’t for everyone, and demand for safety assets was just as prevalent, brining into focus how nervous investors are about what course of action to take going forward in a mixed and uncertain market environment.
For example, SPDR Gold Shares (GLD - News) – the world’s largest gold bullion-based fund – and the PowerShares S'P 500 Low Volatility Fund (SPLV - News) were among the most popular funds last week.
Investors poured $219.5 million into GLD on the week, and $374 million into SPLV – briefly making SPLV a more than $2 billion fund.
Fixed income, as an asset class, was also popular, with U.S. bond funds raking in more than $484 million of new assets.
But funds like the iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond Fund (SHY - News) and the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT - News) saw redemptions last week.
SHY bled $295.4 million, or around 2.6 percent of its assets, while TLT gave up $189.2 million, or nearly 5 percent of its total assets. TLT had $3.73 billion as of June 21, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
VWO | Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets | 582.86 | 49,304.60 | 1.20% |
AMJ | JPMorgan Alerian MLP ETN | 490.41 | 4,680.12 | 11.71% |
XLF | Financial Select SPDR | 428.37 | 6,175.58 | 7.45% |
SPLV | PowerShares S'P 500 Low Volatility | 374.04 | 2,234.46 | 20.11% |
HYG | iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond | 275.22 | 14,380.12 | 1.95% |
VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | 233.20 | 1,810.89 | 14.78% |
EEM | iShares MSCI Emerging Markets | 226.01 | 33,566.50 | 0.68% |
GLD | SPDR Gold | 219.49 | 65,169.24 | 0.34% |
OEF | iShares S'P 100 | 167.80 | 3,458.95 | 5.10% |
XLV | Health Care Select SPDR | 154.22 | 4,367.25 | 3.66% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
SPY | SPDR S'P 500 | -998.38 | 102,038.99 | -0.97% |
IWR | iShares Russell Midcap | -495.43 | 5,592.79 | -8.14% |
IVV | iShares S'P 500 | -384.72 | 28,548.45 | -1.33% |
IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | -346.22 | 14,207.56 | -2.38% |
SHY | iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond | -295.35 | 11,052.47 | -2.60% |
XLI | Industrial Select SPDR | -221.30 | 3,055.40 | -6.75% |
XLP | Consumer Staples Select SPDR | -196.14 | 5,655.42 | -3.35% |
TLT | iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond | -189.21 | 3,735.00 | -4.82% |
TNA | Direxion Daily Small Cap Bull 3x | -160.67 | 682.77 | -19.05% |
DIA | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust | -156.99 | 10,983.64 | -1.41% |
ETF Weekly Daily Flows By Asset Class
Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
U.S. Equity | -182.75 | 527,934.98 | -0.03% |
International Equity | 1,293.06 | 257,678.04 | 0.50% |
U.S. Fixed Income | 484.61 | 210,584.99 | 0.23% |
International Fixed Income | 28.28 | 16,666.19 | 0.17% |
Commodities | 477.50 | 104,673.65 | 0.46% |
Currency | -143.94 | 2,963.70 | -4.86% |
Leveraged | -155.97 | 12,212.54 | -1.28% |
Inverse | 177.74 | 19,566.10 | 0.91% |
Asset Allocation | 0.72 | 1,873.74 | 0.04% |
Alternatives | 289.73 | 4,250.34 | 6.82% |
Total: | 2,269.00 | 1,158,404.27 | 0.20% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds '$50 mm AUM
Ticker | Name | Average Volume | 1 Week Average | % of Average |
FLOT | iShares Floating Rate Note | 61,120 | 1,120,392 | 366.62% |
CGW | Guggenheim S'P Global Water | 63,895 | 1,166,960 | 365.27% |
USMV | iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility | 221,475 | 3,980,181 | 359.42% |
VTWO | Vanguard Russell 2000 | 11,185 | 198,350 | 354.67% |
SPLV | PowerShares S'P 500 Low Volatility | 1,698,418 | 29,406,971 | 346.29% |
HDV | iShares High Dividend Equity | 390,286 | 6,362,141 | 326.02% |
IGM | iShares S'P North American Technology | 53,096 | 817,773 | 308.04% |
XLG | Guggenheim Russell Top 50 | 45,098 | 601,951 | 266.95% |
EUSA | iShares MSCI USA | 17,168 | 226,510 | 263.88% |
PXJ | PowerShares Dynamic Oil ' Gas Services Portfolio | 39,697 | 489,767 | 246.75% |
Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
GAZ | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return ETN | 16.94% | 895,316 | 35.01 |
FUE | ELEMENTS MLCX Biofuels Total Return ETN | 10.69% | 5,164 | 2.20 |
GREK | Global X FTSE Greece 20 | 7.53% | 408,208 | 5.36 |
WEET | iPath Pure Beta Grains ETN | 6.61% | 3,180 | 2.22 |
UAG | ETRACS CMCI Agriculture Total Return ETN | 5.57% | 6,220 | 13.29 |
KWT | Market Vectors Solar Energy | 5.56% | 110,548 | 10.01 |
ALUM | Global X Aluminum | 5.45% | 12,500 | 2.20 |
EFNL | iShares MSCI Finland Capped Investable Market | 5.44% | 7,415 | 2.10 |
TAN | Guggenheim Solar | 5.30% | 243,441 | 51.62 |
LGEM | EGShares Basic Materials GEMS | 5.21% | 32,400 | 2.05 |
Bottom 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
CVOL | C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility | -12.94% | 270,073 | 9.14 |
DPU | PowerShares DB Commodity Long ETN | -10.74% | 4,794 | 5.31 |
VXEE | ETRACS 5-Month S'P 500 VIX Futures ETN | -9.50% | 1,200 | 7.51 |
VXCC | ETRACS 3-Month S'P 500 VIX Futures ETN | -9.35% | 24,400 | 6.80 |
BNO | United States Brent Oil | -8.51% | 285,870 | 41.15 |
VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | -8.49% | 6,189,969 | 149.89 |
VIIX | VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN | -8.45% | 4,273,289 | 82.28 |
VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | -8.42% | 298,957,628 | 1,810.89 |
VXBB | ETRACS 2-Month S'P 500 VIX Futures ETN | -8.20% | 3,800 | 5.70 |
EGPT | Market Vectors Egypt | -7.72% | 173,794 | 36.18 |
Top 10 YTD Performers
Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
SCO | ProShares UltraShort DJ-UBS Crude Oil | 54.41 | 14.93 | 109.31 |
XIV | VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short Term ETN | 50.08 | 5.51 | 253.11 |
SVXY | ProShares Short VIX Short-Term Futures | 48.89 | 5.20 | 31.15 |
AAVX | ETRACS Daily Short 1-Month S'P 500 VIX Futures ETN | 47.70 | 7.88 | 12.80 |
RETL | Direxion Daily Retail Bull 3X Shares | 46.71 | -2.40 | 8.64 |
ITLT | PowerShares DB 3X Italian Treasury Bond Futures ETN | 46.46 | 10.00 | 32.05 |
KOLD | ProShares UltraShort DJ- UBS Natural Gas | 46.08 | -6.02 | 15.82 |
DTO | PowerShares DB Crude Oil Double Short ETN | 44.50 | 13.31 | 71.82 |
BIB | ProShares Ultra NASDAQ Biotech | 43.12 | 5.97 | 24.92 |
GASX | Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bear 3X Shares | 42.22 | 1.89 | 2.72 |
Bottom 10 YTD Performers
Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
UVXY | ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures | -81.59 | -19.24 | 362.75 |
TVIX | VelocityShares Daily 2X VIX Short Term ETN | -79.87 | -17.14 | 398.36 |
BOIL | ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Natural Gas | -60.53 | 2.93 | 56.76 |
CVOL | C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility | -57.13 | -12.94 | 9.14 |
GASL | Direxion Daily Natural Gas Related Bull 3X Shares | -53.81 | -5.58 | 21.86 |
FOL | FactorShares 2X:Oil Bull/S'P 500 Bear | -52.83 | -11.94 | 1.00 |
VXAA | ETRACS 1-Month S'P 500 VIX Futures ETN | -52.79 | -15.61 | 4.06 |
VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | -50.33 | -8.49 | 149.89 |
VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | -50.18 | -8.42 | 1,810.89 |
VIIX | VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN | -50.12 | -8.45 | 82.28 |
Disclaimer:All data as of 6 a.m. Eastern time the date the article is published. Data is believed to be accurate; however, transient market data is often subject to subsequent revision and correction by the exchanges.
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