Investors put $708.2 into the SPDR S'P 500 ETF (SPY - News) on Friday, as stocks shot up amid renewed optimism eurozone policymakers were moving toward a decisive plan to bring the continent’s debt crisis under control.
Overall, total assets investment in U.S.-listed ETFs rose to around $1.179 trillion from just shy of $1.154 trillion on Thursday, June 28, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse. Flows were negative, but just to the tune of $9.5 million.
That means the sizable increase in total assets was linked to the Dow Jones industrial average jumping 277.83 points, or 2.2 percent, to 12,880.09 on signs Europe might finally be on the path to setting up a safety net to keep its most vulnerable countries from tumbling into insolvency.
A number of bond funds pulled in new investors on Friday and, in sum, U.S. fixed-income ETF gathered $321.1 million in new money.
The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Fund (HYG - News) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund (LQD - News) were the Nos. 3 and 4 funds on IndexUniverse’s “Top 10 Creations” list, with inflows of $162.1 million and $105.3 million, respectively.
Friday’s least popular ETF was the PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ - News), which suffered redemptions of $423.3 million.
The “Q’s” were a big reason U.S. equities as an asset class had net outflows of $51.0 million.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| SPY | SPDR S'P 500 | 708.19 | 103,726.39 | 0.69% |
| IVV | iShares S'P 500 | 252.97 | 29,822.99 | 0.86% |
| HYG | iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond | 162.11 | 14,742.82 | 1.11% |
| LQD | iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond | 105.33 | 22,680.41 | 0.47% |
| XLE | Energy Select SPDR | 63.09 | 6,944.49 | 0.92% |
| SMH | Market Vectors Semiconductor | 62.85 | 405.13 | 18.36% |
| IYT | iShares Dow Jones Transportation Average | 51.30 | 592.26 | 9.48% |
| UNG | United States Natural Gas | 42.39 | 1,117.08 | 3.94% |
| PFF | iShares S'P U.S. Preferred Stock | 40.94 | 9,045.68 | 0.45% |
| IEI | iShares Barclays 3-7 Year Treasury Bond | 36.86 | 3,231.74 | 1.15% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| QQQ | PowerShares QQQ | -423.32 | 31,938.51 | -1.31% |
| XLF | Financial Select SPDR | -200.71 | 6,175.71 | -3.15% |
| XLV | Health Care Select SPDR | -171.09 | 4,667.72 | -3.54% |
| GDX | Market Vectors Gold Miners | -129.83 | 8,197.39 | -1.56% |
| SLV | iShares Silver Trust | -118.17 | 8,428.15 | -1.38% |
| VXF | Vanguard Extended Market | -112.84 | 1,363.67 | -7.64% |
| GLD | SPDR Gold | -108.58 | 65,735.62 | -0.16% |
| SDY | SPDR S'P Dividend | -100.19 | 9,122.67 | -1.09% |
| XRT | SPDR S'P Retail | -88.55 | 557.83 | -13.70% |
| IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | -87.54 | 14,634.76 | -0.59% |
ETF Daily Flows By Asset Class
| Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
| U.S. Equity | -50.99 | 540,737.59 | -0.01% |
| International Equity | 19.89 | 262,487.64 | 0.01% |
| U.S. Fixed Income | 321.11 | 211,491.69 | 0.15% |
| International Fixed Income | 16.92 | 17,110.84 | 0.10% |
| Commodities | -264.93 | 106,187.81 | -0.25% |
| Currency | - | 2,961.14 | 0.00% |
| Leveraged | -38.95 | 12,620.36 | -0.31% |
| Inverse | -38.89 | 18,943.34 | -0.21% |
| Asset Allocation | 0.46 | 1,886.06 | 0.02% |
| Alternatives | 25.86 | 4,036.34 | 0.64% |
| Total: | -9.52 | 1,179,055.82 | -0.00% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds '$50 mm AUM
| Ticker | Name | Average Volume (30 Day) |
1-Day Volume | % of Average |
| IWX | iShares Russell Top 200 Value | 19,663 | 168,651 | 857.72% |
| AOR | iShares S'P Growth Allocation | 21,091 | 157,843 | 748.40% |
| IWY | iShares Russell Top 200 Growth | 34,514 | 254,206 | 736.53% |
| USMV | iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility | 225,425 | 1,306,607 | 579.62% |
| VTWO | Vanguard Russell 2000 | 26,170 | 148,464 | 567.31% |
| LVL | Guggenheim S'P Global Dividend Opportunities | 30,608 | 142,946 | 467.02% |
| DEW | WisdomTree Global Equity Income | 12,133 | 54,828 | 451.90% |
| DBC | PowerShares DB Commodity Tracking | 2,770,872 | 12,446,539 | 449.19% |
| JKH | iShares Morningstar Mid Growth | 6,001 | 25,269 | 421.11% |
| UCO | ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil | 2,454,214 | 8,652,714 | 352.57% |
Top 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | 1-Day Performance | 1-Day Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| GREK | Global X FTSE Greece 20 | 9.30% | 29,596 | 5.93 |
| GWO | ELEMENTS Credit Suisse Global Warming ETN | 8.66% | 1,100 | 2.86 |
| OIL | iPath S'P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return ETN | 8.04% | 2,265,894 | 439.49 |
| USO | United States Oil | 7.90% | 20,420,190 | 1,336.19 |
| PSAU | PowerShares Global Gold and Precious Metals Portfolio | 7.82% | 4,074 | 32.32 |
| OLEM | iPath Pure Beta Crude Oil ETN | 7.62% | 9,015 | 18.84 |
| EWP | iShares MSCI Spain | 7.27% | 2,107,096 | 176.61 |
| USL | United States 12 Month Oil | 7.19% | 44,862 | 109.91 |
| OLO | PowerShares DB Crude Oil Long ETN | 7.03% | 23,291 | 10.74 |
| DBO | PowerShares DB Oil | 7.02% | 1,428,298 | 591.60 |
Bottom 10 1-Day Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | 1-Day Performance | 1-Day Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| CVOL | C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi Volatility | -13.45% | 122,985 | 7.39 |
| VIIX | VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN | -6.55% | 722,520 | 68.29 |
| VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | -6.54% | 937,866 | 133.80 |
| VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | -6.46% | 54,057,594 | 1,655.30 |
| VXZ | iPath S'P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN | -3.78% | 248,054 | 251.16 |
| VIXM | ProShares VIX Mid-term | -3.44% | 10,415 | 85.31 |
| CHIM | Global X China Materials | -2.32% | 1,500 | 2.22 |
| LSC | ELEMENTS S'P Commodity Trends Indicator - Total Return ETN | -2.27% | 74,094 | 29.74 |
| BTAL | QuantShares U.S. Market Neutral Anti-Beta | -2.12% | 128,913 | 9.51 |
| EDV | Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury | -2.06% | 66,295 | 202.85 |
Note:Data may be updated due to ticker changes on six Direxion ETFs that may change total assets under management slightly.
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.
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