March 13, 2012
--- U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $15 billion in
net inflows in February 2012. ---
According
to Strategic Insight (SI), an Asset International company, that brought total
ETF net inflows to $43 billion for the first two months of 2012 – more than
double the $18 billion in net inflows to ETFs in the first two months of 2011,
and a pace that could result in the sixth straight year of $100 billion or more
in net inflows to U.S. ETFs.
The
most popular ETF categories in February were emerging markets equities ($5
billion in net inflows), high yield bond ($2 billion) and commodities ($2
billion). The top-drawing ETFs in February were the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets
Stock Index ETF ($2.5 billion in net inflows), the iShares MSCI Emerging
Markets Stock Index Fund ($1.6 billion) and SPDR Gold Shares ETF ($1.3
billion).
At
the end of February 2012, U.S. ETF assets (including ETNs) stood at a record
$1.204 trillion, up from $1.06 trillion at the end of December.
More
information is available at http://www.sionline.com.
Rebecca Moore