Credit: Shutterstock photoInvestors, heartened by an ongoing stream of economic data, plowed $3.6 billion into ETFs in the past week and, combined with a rising market, total U.S.-listed ETF assets rose to a record of almost $1.436 trillion.
The Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSEArca:BSV) was the past week's most popular ETF, pulling in $476.9 million. A number of other Vanguard funds littered the Top 10 creations list, including the Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Index ETF (NYSEArca:VWO), which gathered $177 million.
The 10 least popular funds included the gold bullion ETF, SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca:GLD) some of the market's biggest bond funds, including the $21 billion iShares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund (NYSEArca:TIP) and the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEArca:JNK). The SPDR Gold (NYSEArca:GLD) lost $368.6 million, while JNK and TIP bled $405.6 million and $144.6 million, respectively.
The presence of gold and junk bonds on the redemptions table was consistent with growing views that the economy is finally on a definitive trajectory of healing, after more than four years of volatile trade and choppy economic data in the aftermath of the market meltdown in September 2008.
Top 10 Creations (All ETFs)
Top 10 Redemptions (All ETFs)
ETF Weekly Daily Flows By Asset Class
Top 10 Volume Surprises, Funds 'gt;$50 mm AUM
Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse Funds and 'lt;1,000 Shares Traded
Top 10 YTD Performers
Bottom 10 YTD Performers
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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