October ETF Stats

The National Stock Exchange released its monthly statistics for the exchange-traded products industry today and total assets at U.S.-listed ETFs and ETNs rose to $1.08 trillion, a 15% increase from October 2010. ETF/ETN assets are now back above $1 trillion after dipping to $972.7 trillion at the end of September. There are now 1,359 ETFs and ETNs listed in the U.S. ETF/ETN notional trading volume during October 2011 totaled almost $2 trillion, representing 34% of all U.S. equity trading volume, according to the National Stock Exchange. The top three U.S. ETF issuers remain BlackRock's BLK iShares, State Street's STT State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard with a combined $896.2 billion in ETF assets under management. Invesco's IVZ PowerShares and ProShares round out the top five issuers. In terms of big jumps in issuer AUM, PowerShares saw its total rise almost 15% from September. Van Eck, sponsor of the Market Vectors Family of ETFs, saw its AUM total jump 11%. Direxion's AUM increased 12% while First Trust saw its AUM total surge by nearly 21%. iShares, SSgA and Vanguard all posted month-over-month AUM increases as did WisdomTree, Global X, Guggenheim, Deutsche Bank DB and Schwab SCHW, just to name a few. Issuers that saw net outflows included ProShares, Pimco, Greenhave and Teucrium. The top five U.S.-listed ETFs by assets remain the SPDR S&P 500 SPY, the SPDR Gold Shares GLD, Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets ETF VWO, the iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund EFA and the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund EEM. All added to their AUM totals last month. As equities rallied in October, AUM at long U.S. equity ETFs climbed 14.5%. ETF net cash flows for the month totaled almost $23.9 billion, bringing the year-to-date net cash flow total to approximately $101.6 billion, according to the National Stock Exchange.