Investors Add $7B To ETFs During The Week

Senior ETF Analyst

Jul 10, 2020

Reviewed by: Sumit Roy

Edited by: Sumit Roy

About $6.9 billion flowed into U.S.-listed ETFs amid a relatively quiet week for financial markets. Year-to-date inflows ticked up to $218.7 billion, ahead of last year's $129.2 billion pace.

The latest data, which comes from FactSet, showed that investors pulled $3.9 billion from U.S. equity ETFs during the week ending Thursday, July 9. The S&P 500 hovered in its recent range between 3,000 and 3,200 as a surge in megacap tech shares offset a decline in shares of companies more vulnerable to the latest spread of the coronavirus.

Meanwhile, international equity ETFs registered net inflows of $2.3 billion. Emerging markets stocks in general, and China stocks in particular, spiked this week as the Chinese government encouraged investors to buy.

The Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF (ASHR) reached its highest level since early 2018 this week, though the fund didn't make the top 10 inflows list.

Fixed Income ETFs Lead

Fixed income continued to gather the largest share of inflows. Seven of the 10 largest asset gatherers of the week were fixed income funds, including usual suspects like the iShares iBoxx USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) and others.

U.S. fixed income ETFs pulled in $6.5 billion of fresh cash during the week, and year-to-date inflows for the segment now stand at $103 billion.

For a full list of this week's top inflows and outflows, see the tables below:

Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)

Ticker	Name	Net Flows ($,mm)	AUM ($, mm)	AUM % Change
QQQ	Invesco QQQ Trust	2,203.81	123,831.61	1.78%
LQD	iShares iBoxx USD Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF	1,212.21	56,484.25	2.15%
AGG	iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF	815.24	76,590.62	1.06%
JNK	SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF	652.39	11,355.84	5.74%
TLT	iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF	622.13	19,777.32	3.15%
GLD	SPDR Gold Trust	536.49	69,895.39	0.77%
BNDX	Vanguard Total International Bond ETF	456.21	28,520.61	1.60%
VCIT	Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF	370.43	36,913.85	1.00%
BND	Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF	361.81	56,617.57	0.64%
IAU	iShares Gold Trust	314.34	26,932.63	1.17%

Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)

Ticker	Name	Net Flows ($,mm)	AUM ($, mm)	AUM % Change
IWM	iShares Russell 2000 ETF	-1,965.05	36,039.39	-5.45%
SPY	SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust	-1,478.41	279,205.68	-0.53%
FXL	First Trust Technology AlphaDEX Fund	-571.92	2,165.64	-26.41%
XLB	Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund	-550.96	3,467.23	-15.89%
BIL	SPDR Bloomberg Barclays 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF	-540.04	15,468.61	-3.49%
VTI	Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF	-395.63	146,956.81	-0.27%
SHV	iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF	-376.46	22,488.67	-1.67%
IWD	iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF	-333.34	33,759.65	-0.99%
IVV	iShares Core S&P 500 ETF	-332.14	198,713.57	-0.17%
XLP	Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund	-272.26	13,090.79	-2.08%

ETF Weekly Flows By Asset Class

	Net Flows ($, mm)	AUM ($, mm)	% of AUM
U.S. Equity	-3,880.69	2,480,132.55	-0.16%
International Equity	2,300.06	814,970.29	0.28%
U.S. Fixed Income	6,463.35	885,777.37	0.73%
International Fixed Income	1,240.56	94,173.64	1.32%
Commodities ETFs	832.71	128,250.81	0.65%
Currency	-25.38	1,522.35	-1.67%
Leveraged	-626.35	35,620.80	-1.76%
Inverse	408.50	15,484.28	2.64%
Asset Allocation	2.62	9,876.39	0.03%
Alternatives	142.75	4,564.75	3.13%
Total:	6,858.12	4,470,373.23	0.15%

Asset Classes (Year-to-Date)

	Net Flows ($, mm)	AUM ($, mm)	% of AUM
U.S. Equity	68,439.98	2,480,132.55	2.76%
International Equity	-9,181.78	814,970.29	-1.13%
U.S. Fixed Income	102,968.75	885,777.37	11.62%
International Fixed Income	5,674.75	94,173.64	6.03%
Commodities ETFs	34,832.32	128,250.81	27.16%
Currency	213.72	1,522.35	14.04%
Leveraged	4,269.16	35,620.80	11.99%
Inverse	12,111.86	15,484.28	78.22%
Asset Allocation	405.91	9,876.39	4.11%
Alternatives	-1,082.27	4,564.75	-23.71%
Total:	218,652.41	4,470,373.23	4.89%

Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and <1,000 Shares Traded

Ticker	Name	Weekly Performance	Weekly Volume	AUM ($, mm)
MLPO	Credit Suisse S&P MLP Index ETN	11.58%	3,636	16.53
USV	ETRACS UBS Bloomberg CMCI Silver Total Return ETN	10.63%	1,763	3.56
SLVP	iShares MSCI Global Silver Miners ETF	8.67%	703,599	156.30
SILJ	ETFMG Prime Junior Silver Miners ETF	7.91%	4,607,887	290.29
GOAU	U.S. Global GO Gold and Precious Metal Miners ETF	6.79%	326,326	101.69
GOEX	Global X Gold Explorers ETF	6.74%	131,525	49.89
GERM	ETFMG Treatments Testing and Advancements ETF	6.55%	455,235	28.31
SIL	Global X Silver Miners ETF	6.45%	2,582,842	714.56
SGDJ	Sprott Junior Gold Miners ETF	6.40%	99,749	81.92
SGDM	Sprott Gold Miners ETF	6.36%	220,721	272.00

Top 10 YTD Performers

Ticker	Name	YTD Performance	Weekly Performance	AUM ($, mm)
VXX	iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short Term Futures ETN	118.65%	0.84%	831.88
VIXY	ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF	118.02%	0.60%	231.63
XVZ	iPath S&P 500 Dynamic VIX ETN	93.93%	-1.22%	7.59
VIXM	ProShares VIX Mid-Term Futures ETF	89.50%	0.89%	60.19
VXZ	iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN	88.98%	0.89%	30.19
CLIX	ProShares Long Online/Short Stores ETF	71.89%	2.68%	214.84
ARKG	ARK Genomic Revolution ETF	71.42%	4.59%	1,551.37
ARKW	ARK Next Generation Internet ETF	67.82%	3.79%	1,745.87
WCLD	WisdomTree Cloud Computing Fund	66.58%	3.88%	556.58
ARKK	ARK Innovation ETF	62.00%	3.82%	5,723.03

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.

Sumit Roy

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Sumit Roy is the senior ETF analyst for etf.com, where he has worked for 13 years. He creates a variety of content for the platform, including news articles, analysis pieces, videos and podcasts.

Before joining etf.com, Sumit was the managing editor and commodities analyst for Hard Assets Investor. In those roles, he was responsible for most of the operations of HAI, a website dedicated to education about commodities investing.

Though he still closely follows the commodities beat, Sumit covers a much broader assortment of topics for etf.com, with a particular focus on stock and bond exchange-traded funds.

He is the host of etf.com’s Talk ETFs, a popular video series that features weekly interviews with thought leaders in the ETF industry. Sumit is also co-host of Exchange Traded Fridays, etf.com’s weekly podcast series.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys climbing the city’s steep hills, playing chess and snowboarding in Lake Tahoe.

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Investors Add $7B To ETFs During The Week

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