The SPDR S'P 500 ETF (SPY)—the largest ETF in the world with $101.31 billion in assets—was the most popular ETF in the week ended Thursday, Aug. 2, raking in a whopping $4.53 billion in new assets as investors upped their risk exposure through U.S. equities.
Interestingly, SPY was also one of the worst-performing funds in the past five days, shedding more than 5 percent of value. The stock market had hoped U.S. and European central banks would announce actionable measures to stimulate the economy both here and abroad, something that did not materialize.
The Dow Jones industrial average traded both sides of the market all week, and ended the Thursday-to-Thursday period largely unchanged, down a mere 9 points, or 0.07 percent, at 12,878.88. Following a better-than-expected U.S. jobs report Friday, however, the market was tagging on gains of more than 1.5 percent.
All in all, investors plowed more than $9.58 billion into U.S. ETFs this past week, more than half of which landed in U.S. equities funds. Total U.S. ETF assets, taking into account market movement, ended the week at $1.189 trillion.
Along with riskier equities exposure came the appetite for the safety of fixed income; fixed-income ETFs saw inflows of more than $2.5 billion.
The iShares Barclays 3-7 Year Treasury Bond Fund (IEI) was one of the most popular funds in the week ended Thursday, raking in $765 million—the equivalent of roughly a third of the fund’s total assets coming into the week—and now boasts $2.83 billion in assets.
The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT), as well as high-yield strategies, also made it into the top creations list.
On the flip side, the iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) was the least popular fund in the past week, bleeding $495 million.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| SPY | SPDR S'P 500 | 4,538.46 | 101,316.06 | 4.69% |
| VWO | Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets | 906.55 | 52,012.93 | 1.77% |
| IEI | iShares Barclays 3-7 Year Treasury Bond | 765.25 | 2,829.52 | 37.07% |
| QQQ | PowerShares QQQ | 640.19 | 32,996.66 | 1.98% |
| DIA | SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average Trust | 476.00 | 11,662.19 | 4.26% |
| JNK | SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond | 277.30 | 11,496.11 | 2.47% |
| HYG | iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond | 263.28 | 15,887.92 | 1.69% |
| XRT | SPDR S'P Retail | 257.78 | 803.99 | 47.19% |
| XLI | Industrial Select SPDR | 237.43 | 3,317.84 | 7.71% |
| TLT | iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond | 218.79 | 3,944.70 | 5.87% |
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
| Ticker | Name | Net Flows ($,mm) | AUM ($, mm) | AUM % Change |
| IWM | iShares Russell 2000 | -495.07 | 14,296.99 | -3.35% |
| IYR | iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate | -421.27 | 3,869.62 | -9.82% |
| UWM | ProShares Ultra Russell 2000 | -292.67 | 176.15 | -62.43% |
| IVV | iShares S'P 500 | -282.98 | 30,401.09 | -0.92% |
| IWN | iShares Russell 2000 Value | -254.30 | 3,658.03 | -6.50% |
| XLF | Financial Select SPDR | -190.82 | 5,832.29 | -3.17% |
| XLE | Energy Select SPDR | -182.37 | 6,592.96 | -2.69% |
| GDX | Market Vectors Gold Miners | -112.01 | 7,565.98 | -1.46% |
| FAS | Direxion Daily Financial Bull 3x | -95.45 | 1,121.72 | -7.84% |
| MDY | SPDR S'P MidCap 400 | -94.70 | 9,045.39 | -1.04% |
ETF Weekly Daily Flows By Asset Class
| Net Flows ($, mm) | AUM ($, mm) | % of AUM | |
| U.S. Equity | 5,735.95 | 543,333.85 | 1.06% |
| International Equity | 1,004.54 | 265,411.87 | 0.38% |
| U.S. Fixed Income | 2,360.51 | 215,627.82 | 1.09% |
| International Fixed Income | 295.44 | 19,117.65 | 1.55% |
| Commodities | 416.11 | 106,027.15 | 0.39% |
| Currency | -28.60 | 2,916.06 | -0.98% |
| Leveraged | -712.21 | 11,590.77 | -6.14% |
| Inverse | 497.27 | 19,658.39 | 2.53% |
| Asset Allocation | 16.44 | 1,985.34 | 0.83% |
| Alternatives | -3.65 | 4,017.21 | -0.09% |
| Total: | 9,581.80 | 1,189,686.10 | 0.81% |
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds '$50 mm AUM
| Ticker | Name | Average Volume (30 Day) |
1 Week Average Volume |
% of Average |
| VPU | Vanguard Utilities | 317,202 | 7,693,847 | 485.11% |
| IFGL | iShares FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Real Estate ex-US. | 413,907 | 9,556,361 | 461.76% |
| IGF | iShares S'P Global Infrastructure | 120,680 | 2,662,378 | 441.23% |
| SCHR | Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury | 72,120 | 1,573,403 | 436.33% |
| EXI | iShares S'P Global Industrials | 27,626 | 562,992 | 407.59% |
| VIXM | ProShares VIX Mid-term | 26,575 | 466,396 | 351.01% |
| UST | ProShares Ultra 7-10 Year Treasury | 1,099,848 | 18,259,274 | 332.03% |
| EEMV | iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Minimum Volatility | 135,728 | 2,199,538 | 324.11% |
| CYB | WisdomTree Dreyfus Chinese Yuan | 116,167 | 1,881,681 | 323.96% |
| PSCH | PowerShares S'P SmallCap Health Care | 25,279 | 402,654 | 318.57% |
Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| NIB | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Cocoa Total Return ETN | 7.97% | 130,869 | 26.26 |
| CHOC | iPath Pure Beta Cocoa ETN | 7.33% | 37,104 | 3.24 |
| EWY | iShares MSCI South Korea | 6.94% | 8,861,042 | 2,590.05 |
| AAIT | iShares MSCI All Country Asia Information Technology | 5.80% | 1,671 | 4.99 |
| EWT | iShares MSCI Taiwan | 5.38% | 31,884,633 | 2,044.97 |
| AIA | iShares S'P Asia 50 | 5.06% | 47,082 | 190.76 |
| GAZ | iPath Dow Jones-UBS Natural Gas Total Return ETN | 4.98% | 525,752 | 39.80 |
| EEMA | iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia | 4.87% | 61,345 | 20.10 |
| UGA | United States Gasoline | 4.83% | 187,335 | 82.56 |
| INXX | EGShares India Infrastructure | 4.67% | 85,561 | 51.15 |
Bottom 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and '1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker | Name | Weekly Performance | Weekly Volume | AUM ($, mm) |
| XLY | Consumer Discretionary Select SPDR | -9.73% | 38,731,247 | 2,894.92 |
| XBI | SPDR S'P Biotech | -6.42% | 2,177,428 | 697.97 |
| VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | -6.37% | 198,553,029 | 1,566.34 |
| UNG | United States Natural Gas | -5.51% | 89,058,297 | 1,272.13 |
| NAGS | Teucrium Natural Gas Fund | -5.33% | 46,508 | 3.53 |
| SPY | SPDR S'P 500 | -5.09% | 801,976,963 | 101,316.06 |
| PBE | PowerShares Dynamic Biotech ' Genome Portfolio | -5.01% | 84,442 | 130.10 |
| UNL | United States 12 Month Natural Gas | -4.93% | 194,065 | 45.79 |
| PSCE | PowerShares S'P SmallCap Energy | -4.84% | 31,458 | 41.12 |
| FBT | First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology | -4.83% | 546,392 | 242.59 |
Top 10 YTD Performers
| Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
| JJG | iPath Dow Jones UBS Grains Total Return ETN | 37.98 | -0.20 | 178.27 |
| ITB | iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction | 37.31 | -2.70 | 856.85 |
| BBH | Market Vectors Biotech | 34.22 | -0.70 | 117.43 |
| TUR | iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market | 32.62 | 0.70 | 492.57 |
| EGPT | Market Vectors Egypt | 31.00 | 2.08 | 44.21 |
| WEET | iPath Pure Beta Grains ETN | 29.90 | 0.79 | 2.76 |
| FBT | First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology | 29.07 | -4.83 | 242.59 |
| XBI | SPDR S'P Biotech | 29.00 | -6.42 | 697.97 |
| EPHE | iShares MSCI Philippines Investable Market | 28.01 | 3.17 | 145.84 |
| IBB | iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology | 25.73 | -2.66 | 2,155.94 |
Bottom 10 YTD Performers
| Ticker | Name | YTD Performance | Weekly Performance | AUM ($, mm) |
| VIXY | ProShares VIX Short-Term | -63.95 | -1.68 | 140.40 |
| VIIX | VelocityShares VIX Short Term ETN | -63.91 | -1.74 | 26.57 |
| VXX | iPath S'P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN | -62.35 | -6.37 | 1,566.34 |
| KWT | Market Vectors Solar Energy | -39.35 | -2.06 | 8.38 |
| TAN | Guggenheim Solar | -38.19 | -3.27 | 40.78 |
| VIIZ | VelocityShares VIX Mid Term ETN | -30.17 | 2.30 | 7.62 |
| VIXM | ProShares VIX Mid-term | -30.01 | 2.30 | 101.19 |
| VXZ | iPath S'P 500 VIX Mid-Term Futures ETN | -29.74 | -1.51 | 254.53 |
| KOL | Market Vectors Coal | -29.15 | 3.04 | 167.68 |
| GLDX | Global X Gold Explorers | -29.05 | -0.39 | 29.14 |
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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