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AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update-Week Ending 8/10/2018
August 13, 2018--Assets in actively managed ETFs added $284 million last week to reach $61.53 billion in total net assets.
ARK Investment took the top spot in new AUM growth with $116 million, followed by JP Morgan with a $70 million dollar gain. There were no fund launches or fund closures, which held the total of actively managed ETFs currently trading at 235.
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Source: AlphaBaskets
ETFGI reports assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed in the US reached a new high of $3.63 trillion at the end of July 2018
August 13, 2018-- ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that ETFs and ETPs listed in the US reached a new high of US$3.63 Tn in assets, following net inflows of US$28.60 Bn in July, according to ETFGI's July 2018 US ETF and ETP industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service.
Highlights
Total Assets in ETFs and ETPs listed in the US reached a record $3.63 Tn at the end July
Net new assets gathered by ETFs/ETPs listed in the US were $28.60 Bn in July
Equity products gathered the largest net inflows during July with $18.75 Bn, while commodity ETFs/ETPs experienced the largest net outflows with $1.08 Bn
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WisdomTree Launches Two Transparent Actively Managed Multifactor ETFs view more CFTC.gov Commitments of Traders Reports Update Hartford Funds Announces the Closure and Liquidation of Two Exchange-Traded Funds view more JPMorgan's ETF Business Is Finally Catching Up to Goldman view more OppenheimerFunds Launches High-Dividend, Value-Oriented International ETFs view more Invesco Adds Two Defined Maturity Bond ETFs to its BulletShares Suite view more U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Trade-War Jitters Keep Equity Mutual Fund Investors at Bay During the Week view more
In 2018, real GDP is projected to grow by 3.1 percent. That is about 0.6 percentage points faster than the pace of its growth in 2017. The pickup in growth is largely the result of increases in government spending, reductions in taxes, and faster growth in private investment. For the second half of the year, CBO expects real GDP to grow at roughly the same average pace as it grew in the first half of the year, which would represent a moderation following the 4.1 percent annualized growth of GDP reported in the second quarter.
Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
August 10, 2018--Firm Continues to Grow Multifactor ETF Suite, Adding International and Emerging Market Offerings
WisdomTree's Modern AlphaTM Approach Combines Pursuit of Outperformance
with Benefits of the ETF Structure
WisdomTree (NASDAQ: WETF), an exchange-traded fund ("ETF") and exchange-traded product ("ETP") sponsor and asset manager, today announced the launch of two transparent actively managed multifactor ETFs, the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Multifactor Fund (EMMF) and the WisdomTree International Multifactor Fund (DWMF), both listed on the NYSE Arca.
The WisdomTree Emerging Markets Multifactor Fund (EMMF) seeks to achieve capital appreciation through a transparent actively managed strategy, investing in emerging market equity securities that have the highest potential for returns, based on proprietary measures of valuation, quality, momentum and volatility reduction factors. Currency risk is managed through dynamic currency hedging.
Source: WisdomTree
August 10, 2018--The current reports for the week of August 10, 2018 are now available.
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Source: CFTC.gov
August 9, 2018--Hartford Corporate Bond ETF and Hartford Quality Bond ETF Are Expected to Liquidate in September 2018.
Hartford Funds,a leading asset management firm- has announced that it will close and liquidate two exchange-traded funds.
Hartford Funds commitment to responding to investors' needs includes a regular review of its product lineup, which has led to a decision to liquidate the following funds: Hartford Corporate Bond ETF (HCOR) and Hartford Quality Bond ETF (HQBD), each a series of Hartford Funds Exchange-Traded Trust (each a "Fund" and, collectively, the "Funds").
Source: Hartford Funds
August 9, 2018--JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s exchange'traded funds raked in $2.5 billion in July, a record haul for the bank that signals a turnaround for the lagging four-year-old business.
The New York bank's asset-management division launched its first ETF in June 2014, but it took more than two years for its funds to crack $1 billion in assets. It was a slow start, especially compared with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which debuted its first ETF a year after JPMorgan but raised $3 billion in just 18 months.
Source: Wall Street Journal
August 9, 2018--OppenheimerFunds Investments has expanded on its line of revenue-weighted ETF strategies with two new international dividend options.
OppenheimerFunds launched the Oppenheimer Emerging Markets Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF (NYSEArca: REDV) and the Oppenheimer International Ultra Dividend Revenue ETF ..
Source: nasdaq.com
August 9, 2018--New Corporate Bond ETF and High Yield Corporate ETF replace maturing Funds
Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ) a leading global provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), announced today the launch of two new BulletShares ETFs, the BulletShares 2028 Corporate Bond ETF (Ticker: BSCS) and the BulletShares 2026 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (Ticker: BSJQ).
The ETFs will be incorporated into the firm's BulletShares(R) Corporate Bond and BulletShares(R) High Yield Corporate Bond ETF portfolios, which provide defined maturity exposure through investment-grade corporate bonds in a transparent ETF wrapper.
Source: Invesco
August 9, 2018--For the third consecutive week investors were net purchasers of overall fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $20.5 billion for Thomson Reuters Lipper's fund-flows week ended August 8, 2018.
But, despite continued strong corporate earnings and a fair nonfarm-payrolls report during the week, fund investors were net redeemers of equity funds (-$962 million), while they padded the coffers of money market funds (+$16.6 billion), taxable bond funds (+$4.2 billion net), and municipal bond funds (+$623 million net).
Source: Thomson Reuters
