'DDWM' & 'XLE' On Top Weekly Inflows List
Investors added money to U.S.-listed ETFs despite a sell-off in stock markets late this week.
Financial markets were hit with fresh volatility late this week, but that didn't stop investors from plowing money into exchange-traded funds. In the week ending Thursday, April 28, $4.6 billion was added to U.S.-listed ETFs.
Garnering the most interest were U.S. equity ETFs, with $3.2 billion in inflows; followed by U.S. fixed-income ETFs, with $866 million in inflows; international equity ETFs, with $246 million; and inverse ETFs, with $228 million.
In terms of specific products, the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY | A-98), the world's largest ETF, took the top spot, with $1.3 billion in creations.
Other notable winners included the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND | A-94), with inflows of $586 million; the Energy Select SPDR (XLE | A-91), with inflows of $283 million; and the WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged International Equity ETF (DDWM), with inflows of $242 million―a huge sum for the nascent fund.
On the flip side was the Consumer Staples Select SPDR (XLP | A-92), which topped the outflows list with redemptions totaling $591 million.
That was followed by the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT | A-83) and the WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth (IHDG | B-54).
For a full list of the top ETF inflows and outflows, see the tables below.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| SPY | SPDR S&P 500 | 1,276.85 | 187,690.91 | 0.68% |
| IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | 775.34 | 26,787.08 | 2.98% |
| BND | Vanguard Total Bond Market | 585.97 | 30,031.41 | 1.99% |
| QQQ | PowerShares QQQ | 564.86 | 37,035.97 | 1.55% |
| XLE | Energy Select SPDR | 283.31 | 14,221.73 | 2.03% |
| DIA | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust | 269.43 | 12,483.49 | 2.21% |
| AGG | iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond | 242.96 | 35,537.71 | 0.69% |
| DDWM | WisdomTree Dynamic Currency Hedged International Equity | 230.55 | 241.94 | 2,023.27% |
| XOP | SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production | 184.61 | 2,179.51 | 9.25% |
| XLV | Health Care Select SPDR | 178.33 | 12,746.91 | 1.42% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| XLP | Consumer Staples Select SPDR | -591.20 | 9,397.03 | -5.92% |
| TLT | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond | -385.67 | 8,743.54 | -4.22% |
| IHDG | WisdomTree International Hedged Quality Dividend Growth | -262.26 | 483.69 | -35.16% |
| IYR | iShares U.S. Real Estate | -243.69 | 3,954.34 | -5.80% |
| XLK | Technology Select SPDR | -224.06 | 13,116.22 | -1.68% |
| SHY | iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond | -220.73 | 10,307.96 | -2.10% |
| KRE | SPDR S&P Regional Banking | -191.39 | 1,740.31 | -9.91% |
| VXF | Vanguard Extended Market | -186.36 | 3,763.24 | -4.72% |
| IWF | iShares Russell 1000 Growth | -186.07 | 29,186.94 | -0.63% |
| EWJ | iShares MSCI Japan | -182.89 | 16,324.82 | -1.11% |
ETF Weekly Flows By Asset Class
| Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
| U.S. Equity | 3,167.29 | 1,226,959.91 | 0.26% |
| International Equity | 245.58 | 485,114.88 | 0.05% |
| U.S. Fixed Income | 865.89 | 369,854.59 | 0.23% |
| International Fixed Income | 21.72 | 32,269.67 | 0.07% |
| Commodities | -47.07 | 61,237.72 | -0.08% |
| Currency | -17.46 | 1,258.95 | -1.39% |
| Leveraged | 57.13 | 24,232.02 | 0.24% |
| Inverse | 227.97 | 20,065.40 | 1.14% |
| Asset Allocation | 23.99 | 5,728.60 | 0.42% |
| Alternatives | 38.03 | 3,862.81 | 0.98% |
| Total: | 4,583.08 | 2,230,584.57 | 0.21% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds >$50 mm AUM
| Ticker | Name | Average Volume (30 Day) | 1 Week Average Volume | % of Average |
| DJCI | E-TRACS DJ-Bloomberg Commodity Total Return | 36,445 | 206,027 | 565.31% |
| SMDV | ProShares Russell 2000 Dividend Growers | 36,115 | 163,192 | 451.87% |
| PEJ | PowerShares Dynamic Leisure and Entertainment | 57,594 | 159,833 | 277.51% |
| RJA | ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity - Agriculture Total Return ETN | 48,982 | 152,007 | 310.33% |
| VGLT | Vanguard Long-Term Government Bond | 107,670 | 249,495 | 231.72% |
| KNOW | Direxion All Cap Insider Sentiment | 18,128 | 36,007 | 198.63% |
| DNL | WisdomTree Global ex-U.S. Quality Dividend Growth | 10,053 | 35,964 | 357.75% |
| VPU | Vanguard Utilities | 267,094 | 648,057 | 242.63% |
| PVI | PowerShares VRDO Tax-Free Weekly | 7,253 | 15,609 | 215.21% |
| DSUM | PowerShares Chinese Yuan Dim Sum Bond | 11,325 | 34,663 | 306.09% |
Disclaimer: All data is from FactSet, 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.
