Int’l Stock ETFs Lead Weekly Creations
The popularity of currency-hedged eurozone-focused funds goes unabated for another week.
Currency-hedged ETFs focused on Europe continued to rake in assets in the past week, as investors looked for ways to play the budding eurozone recovery while protecting themselves from the devaluing euro.
Even as the financial crisis in Greece continues to unfold, investor appetite for international stocks has gone undeterred. In the past five days ended Thursday, March 26, they poured more than $4.01 billion into international equity ETFs.
Both the WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity Fund (HEDJ | B-59) and the Deutsche X-trackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF (DBEF | B-77) were among the week’s most popular funds, gathering $709 million and $472 million, respectively.
Not so popular were U.S. equity funds, which, in the aggregate, bled some $14.12 billion in assets in a week. In all, total U.S.-listed ETF assets slipped about $9 billion in the past five days, ending the week at $2.094 trillion.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
HEDJ | WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity | 709.41 | 16,831.88 | 4.40% |
IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | 640.44 | 29,855.89 | 2.19% |
HYG | iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond | 605.16 | 16,588.26 | 3.79% |
DBEF | Deutsche X-trackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF | 472.24 | 6,840.12 | 7.42% |
JNK | SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond | 468.56 | 11,434.72 | 4.27% |
LQD | iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond | 462.39 | 22,288.43 | 2.12% |
XLK | Technology Select SPDR | 384.96 | 12,867.06 | 3.08% |
AGG | iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond | 378.05 | 23,894.64 | 1.61% |
TLT | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond | 368.57 | 6,423.23 | 6.09% |
EZU | iShares MSCI EMU | 325.97 | 9,660.60 | 3.49% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
VIG | Vanguard Dividend Appreciation | -3,940.67 | 20,476.16 | -16.14% |
SPY | SPDR S&P 500 | -3,016.78 | 189,084.94 | -1.57% |
VYM | Vanguard High Dividend Yield | -1,559.89 | 10,836.45 | -12.58% |
VO | Vanguard Mid-Cap | -1,414.01 | 11,304.02 | -11.12% |
DIA | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust | -780.95 | 11,874.78 | -6.17% |
IJH | iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap | -730.44 | 25,634.41 | -2.77% |
HDV | iShares Core High Dividend | -621.02 | 4,953.44 | -11.14% |
DVY | iShares Select Dividend | -617.97 | 14,953.68 | -3.97% |
VB | Vanguard Small-Cap | -613.72 | 10,878.42 | -5.34% |
VXF | Vanguard Extended Market | -596.58 | 4,125.47 | -12.63% |
ETF Weekly Flows By Asset Class
Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
U.S. Equity | -14,127.88 | 1,183,261.68 | -1.19% |
International Equity | 4,014.99 | 465,660.13 | 0.83% |
U.S. Fixed Income | 3,011.79 | 307,751.92 | 0.99% |
International Fixed Income | -28.64 | 24,642.67 | -0.12% |
Commodities | -895.33 | 59,612.98 | -1.54% |
Currency | -4.93 | 1,307.78 | -0.37% |
Leveraged | -813.83 | 25,778.76 | -3.11% |
Inverse | -428.24 | 17,025.02 | -2.49% |
Asset Allocation | 20.14 | 5,754.66 | 0.35% |
Alternatives | 227.22 | 3,294.71 | 6.06% |
Total: | -9,024.70 | 2,094,090.31 | -0.43% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds >$50 mm AUM
Ticker | Name | Average Volume (30 Day) | 1 Week Average Volume | % of Average |
CRBN | iShares MSCI ACWI Low Carbon Target | 2,480 | 12,471 | 502.86% |
WBIA | WBI SMID Tactical Growth | 31,861 | 146,770 | 460.65% |
WBIG | WBI Large Cap Tactical Yield Shares | 33,885 | 134,547 | 397.06% |
IFEU | iShares Europe Developed Real Estate | 35,688 | 138,100 | 386.96% |
WBIF | WBI Large Cap Tactical Value | 24,929 | 93,386 | 374.60% |
IGV | iShares North American Tech-Software | 97,678 | 359,778 | 368.33% |
WBIE | WBI Large Cap Tactical Growth | 24,617 | 89,951 | 365.40% |
DJCI | E-TRACS DJ-Bloomberg Commodity Total Return | 42,889 | 156,613 | 365.16% |
WBII | WBI Tactical Income Shares | 21,188 | 72,392 | 341.66% |
WBIL | WBI Large Cap Tactical Select Shares | 19,145 | 64,764 | 338.29% |
Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and <1,000 Shares Traded
Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
OIL | iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return ETN | 14.32% | 24,330,899 | 1,034.92 |
USO | United States Oil | 13.25% | 147,272,679 | 3,254.06 |
CVOL | C-Tracks Citi Volatility ETN | 12.58% | 566,278 | 6.14 |
OLEM | iPath Pure Beta Crude Oil ETN | 9.35% | 4,844 | 2.61 |
USL | United States 12 Month Oil | 8.97% | 376,309 | 76.02 |
BNO | United States Brent Oil | 8.88% | 1,246,945 | 111.05 |
CPER | United States Copper | 8.80% | 5,640 | 1.90 |
GREK | Global X FTSE Greece 20 | 8.46% | 3,846,588 | 229.61 |
RJN | ELEMENTS Rogers International Commodity - Energy Total Return ETN | 8.05% | 475,982 | 29.67 |
JUNR | Global X Junior Miners | 7.04% | 6,192 | 3.72 |
Bottom 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and <1,000 Shares Traded
Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
BBC | BioShares Biotechnology Clinical Trials | -12.12% | 514,747 | 20.34 |
SBIO | ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF | -11.12% | 770,758 | 46.77 |
XBI | SPDR S&P Biotech | -9.83% | 8,328,282 | 2,025.94 |
PBE | PowerShares Dynamic Biotech & Genome | -8.22% | 723,834 | 528.26 |
FBT | First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology | -7.52% | 1,853,773 | 3,099.43 |
PTH | PowerShares DWA Healthcare Momentum | -7.06% | 139,168 | 175.17 |
BBP | BioShares Biotechnology Products | -7.05% | 204,343 | 9.09 |
XPH | SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals | -7.04% | 732,703 | 1,182.70 |
IBB | iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology | -6.69% | 18,605,144 | 8,113.90 |
IDXJ | Market Vectors Indonesia Small Cap | -6.68% | 8,513 | 7.38 |
Top 10 YTD Performers
Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
CNXT | Market Vectors ChinaAMC SME-ChiNext | 0.44 | 1.00 | 41.36 |
ASHS | Deutsche X-trackers Harvest CSI 500 China-A Shares Small Cap ETF | 0.33 | 1.32 | 39.77 |
TAN | Guggenheim Solar | 0.29 | -3.35 | 366.52 |
DBGR | Deutsche X-trackers MSCI Germany Hedged Equity ETF | 0.22 | -1.24 | 178.01 |
DXJH | WisdomTree Japan Hedged Health Care | 0.21 | -0.08 | 3.12 |
KWT | Market Vectors Solar Energy | 0.21 | -3.21 | 24.32 |
HEWG | iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Germany | 0.21 | -1.46 | 1,288.96 |
ICLN | iShares Global Clean Energy | 0.20 | -1.69 | 79.15 |
DXGE | WisdomTree Germany Hedged Equity | 0.19 | -1.58 | 289.47 |
HEDJ | WisdomTree Europe Hedged Equity | 0.18 | -1.64 | 16,831.88 |
Bottom 10 YTD Performers
Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
GAZ | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return ETN | -0.37 | -9.09 | 12.60 |
EWZS | iShares MSCI Brazil Small-Cap | -0.25 | 0.30 | 26.29 |
BRF | Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap | -0.23 | 0.56 | 82.21 |
BRAQ | Global X Brazil Consumer | -0.19 | -0.62 | 6.26 |
JO | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Total Return ETN | -0.19 | -1.43 | 67.90 |
CVOL | C-Tracks Citi Volatility ETN | -0.19 | 12.09 | 6.14 |
FBZ | First Trust Brazil AlphaDex | -0.18 | -0.48 | 2.56 |
GREK | Global X FTSE Greece 20 | -0.18 | 2.51 | 229.61 |
VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | -0.17 | 1.29 | 150.62 |
VIIX | VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN | -0.17 | 1.47 | 8.05 |
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.