Market Size & Growth

• ASX Exchange Traded Funds Market Cap: $23.6B – New all-time record
• Market cap growth for month:  +0.9%, +$219.9m
• Market cap growth for last twelve months: 22.5%, +$4.4B

New Money

• New unit growth for month (units outstanding by number): +4.5%
• Net new money (units outstanding by $ value): +$280.1m

Comment: In a month where global markets either dipped or went sideways, 100% of the industry’s growth was attributable to net inflows (i.e. as opposed to asset growth)

Products

• 184 Exchange Traded Products trading on the ASX
• 5 new products launched this month

Comment:  We added three new funds to our BetaShares Global Sector Series- BetaShares Global Banks ETF – Currency Hedged (BNKS), BetaShares Global Agriculture  ETF – Currency Hedged (FOOD), BetaShares Global Healthcare ETF – (DRUG). In addition Australia’s first actively managed multi-asset exchange traded product was launched, AMP Capital’s DMKT which was followed by another multi-asset product from a new exchange traded issuer, fund manager Schroders.

Trading Value

Average trading value increased 12% month on month

Performance

Best performers this month were Asian Equities, Japanese Equities – Currency Hedged (via HJPN), and Oil (via OOO).

Top 5 category inflows (by $) – August 2016

Top category outflows (by $) – August 2016