ETF Stats for April 2012: Listed Count at 1,457
Eighteen new ETFs and two ETNs came to market in April. The twenty new product introductions places the year-to-date launch count at 105, but the net increase is only 88 as a results of the 17 closures. The number of listed products was 1,457 at month-end, consisting of 1,243 ETFs and 214 ETNs. Assets...
ETF Stats for March 2012: Launch Activity Dives
Monthly launch activity plunged more than 70% from February’s blistering pace. The March new product count of only 14 (13 ETFs and 1 ETN) was the lowest since last August. New ETPs year-to-date total 85, but with 16 closures the net increase is just 69. The eight March closures were all from...
ETF Stats for February 2012: 2nd Highest Launch Count On Record
Launch activity continued at a blistering pace last month. February’s new product count of 48 (40 ETFs and 8 ETNs) was second only to the 50 launches in January 2007. BlackRock’s iShares brand accounted for 23 of February’s new products and 35 of the 71 year-to-date total. The iShares...
ETF Stats for January 2012: Trading Activity Continues to Slow
January’s new ETF activity hit the highest level in seven months. After ten days of no introductions, the pace jumped to more than one a day with 23 launches in the last 21 calendar days of the month. So far the new rollouts have been limited to ETFs rather than ETNs. Month-end totals stood...
ETF Stats for December 2011: Closures Set Monthly Record and Total Listings Decline
Launch activity slowed to just sixteen new product introductions in December, well below 2011’s monthly average of more than twenty-five. The 308 new listings in 2011 established a new calendar year record, surpassing the 291 of 2007. The sixteen new arrivals are made up of thirteen ETFs and six...
ETF Stats for November 2011: Yearly Launches Set New Record
Launch activity slowed to just seventeen new product introductions in November, but the year-to-date count of 292 is enough to clinch the title for most new ETPs in a calendar year. The previous record of 291 was established four years ago in 2007. The new monthly additions consisted of thirteen...
ETF Stats for October 2011: YTD Launches At 275
New product introductions totaled 275 in the first ten months of 2011. October saw 27 new ETPs come to market, consisting of 17 ETFs and 10 ETNs. Three ETFs closed and liquidated, putting the net gain in listed products at 24 for October. The quantity of U.S. listings now stands at 1,359 (1,163...
ETF Stats for September 2011: Assets Slip Below $1 Trillion
Product launch activity picked up in September following a sluggish summer. New exchange-traded product listings totaled 37 during the month, consisting of 20 ETFs and 17 ETNs. There were three closings (two ETFs and one ETN), producing a net-increase of 34. The quantity of listed products totaled...
ETF Stats for August 2011: Dollar Volume Surges 99%
We thought twelve new products in July would be the year’s low point, but August proved us wrong with only nine new listings. This was the slowest pace since October 2010 and only the third time in three years launches failed to reach double-digits in a calendar month. Three ETN closures accompanied...
ETF Stats for July 2011: Launch Activity Slows
ETF launch teams succumbed to the dog days of summer in July with new product introductions slowing to a trickle. After a record setting first six months of the year, only seven new ETFs and five new ETNs achieved listing status during the month. The six-month introduction rate dropped to 180, second...
