Investors Add $18B to ETFs Despite Rocky Week for Markets
Despite a shaky performance from stocks and bonds, year-to-date inflows still topped $27 billion as investors continued to shell out to U.S.-listed ETFs last week.
Investors added $17.7 billion to U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds during the week ending Friday, Jan. 10 despite choppiness in financial markets.
Year-to-date inflows ticked up to more than $27 billion—a respectable start to 2025, but far off the pace of 2024’s record $1.1 trillion of inflows.
In terms of asset classes, U.S. fixed income ETFs saw the largest inflows at $7.2 billion, followed by U.S. equity ETFs with inflows of $5.9 billion.
Both stocks and bonds sold off last week. The 10-year Treasury bond yield approached 4.8% for the first time since 2023 (bond yields and prices move inversely).
At the same time, the S&P 500 sagged to levels nearly 5% below the index’s all-time high set in December.
VOO, TLT, IBIT Continue to Thrive
Still, investors weren’t fazed by the declines. The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) picked up a solid $6.6 billion of inflows last week, while the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) soaked up $1.5 billion.
Even the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) had inflows of $934 million in the face of a roughly 5% drop in the price of bitcoin.
However, there were some ETFs with notable outflows. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), the world’s largest ETF and one that’s popular with short-term traders, had outflows of $6.9 billion.
The tech-heavy Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) had outflows of $2.2 billion and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) registered outflows of $855 million.
For a full list of last week’s top inflows and outflows, see the tables below:
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change< |
| VOO | Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | 6,620.07 | 595,750.11 | 1.11 |
| VV | Vanguard Large-Cap ETF | 1,692.10 | 41,075.97 | 4.12 |
| TLT | iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF | 1,506.62 | 50,351.95 | 2.99 |
| VTI | Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF | 1,244.22 | 461,225.91 | 0.27 |
| IBIT | iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF | 934.24 | 52,459.36 | 1.78 |
| JAAA | Janus Detroit Street Trust Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF | 866.65 | 17,555.80 | 4.94 |
| IDEV | iShares Core MSCI International Developed Markets ETF | 826.11 | 15,479.01 | 5.34 |
| XLC | Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund | 785.11 | 21,092.28 | 3.72 |
| SPDW | SPDR Portfolio Developed World ex-US ETF | 756.52 | 21,162.66 | 3.57 |
| SGOV | iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF | 697.65 | 30,827.96 | 2.26 |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| SPY | SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | -6,925.47 | 623,028.93 | -1.11 |
| QQQ | Invesco QQQ Trust Series I | -2,175.19 | 320,416.03 | -0.68 |
| EEM | iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF | -855.54 | 16,141.33 | -5.30 |
| QLD | ProShares Ultra QQQ | -785.96 | 6,985.73 | -11.25 |
| SOXL | Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares | -744.82 | 9,887.37 | -7.53 |
| IWF | iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF | -573.97 | 106,685.99 | -0.54 |
| IWM | iShares Russell 2000 ETF | -500.47 | 71,896.91 | -0.70 |
| IWB | iShares Russell 1000 ETF | -454.86 | 40,016.49 | -1.14 |
| IWD | iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF | -400.52 | 63,323.60 | -0.63 |
| FXR | First Trust Industrials/Producer Durables AlphaDEX Fund | -399.95 | 1,952.76 | -20.48 |
ETF Weekly Flows By Asset Class
| Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
| Alternatives | 145.41 | 8,857.21 | 1.64% |
| Asset Allocation | 49.20 | 21,411.88 | 0.23% |
| Commodities ETFs | 642.00 | 162,749.75 | 0.39% |
| Currency | 1,583.83 | 108,167.68 | 1.46% |
| International Equity | 1,827.56 | 1,527,256.97 | 0.12% |
| International Fixed Income | 1,917.78 | 253,118.36 | 0.76% |
| Inverse | 332.68 | 11,293.71 | 2.95% |
| Leveraged | -1,916.74 | 118,501.17 | -1.62% |
| US Equity | 5,868.84 | 6,627,050.82 | 0.09% |
| US Fixed Income | 7,199.61 | 1,534,134.14 | 0.47% |
| Total: | 17,650.17 | 10,372,541.70 | 0.17% |
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.
