'GLD' YTD Inflows Top $10 Billion, 'HYG' Loses Big

On the whole, investors continued to pour money into U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds this week. About $5 billion entered ETFs as a whole, with most of the money going into U.S. equity products, according to FactSet data. On the other hand, fixed-income ETFs saw a sizable outflow—$960 million—but that was all due to one product in particular.

GLD YTD Inflows Top $10 Billion

At the same time, commodities continued to garner solid inflows, to the tune of $771 million, thanks to the popularity of the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD | A-100), the inflows leader of the year. GLD had inflows of $620 million this week, bringing its year-to-date haul to $10.2 billion.

GLD's weekly flows were enough to put it at No. 4 on this week's inflows list. At the top of that list was the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY | A-97), with inflows of $1.4 billion.

Another notable winner was the First Trust Morningstar Dividend Leaders Index Fund (FDL | A-69), with inflows of nearly $600 million, and the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF (GDX | C-75), with inflows of $483 million.

HYG Assets Fall By More Than 10%

Meanwhile, as previously mentioned, one fixed-income product was far ahead of the rest of that asset class when it came to outflows. The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG | B-68) saw a whopping $1.8 billion flow out of the product, a nearly 12% reduction in its assets under management.

At the No. 2 position was the Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF | A-94), with a $516 million outflow, and at No. 3 was the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (DXj | B-63), with $350 million in outflows.

On a percentage basis, the biggest loser on the list was the ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY) , with a $240 million outflow, representing almost 22% of its AUM.

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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.