A group of emerging market funds was found among the
best-performing ETFs for the week ended Thursday, Sept. 20,
delivering solid returns to investors who have increasingly taken
to international equities in recent weeks.
Even though overall trading volume was rather low amid the
best performers, the Market Vector Indonesia Small Cap ETF
(NYSEArca:IDXJ) and the EGShares India Infrastructure ETF
(NYSEArca:INXX) raked in gains of 6.4 percent and 5.4 percent,
respectively, in the five-day period. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones
industrial average ended the Thursday-to-Thursday period only 57
points higher, or up 0.4 percent.
That solid performance was accompanied by another wave of asset
inflows into international equities ETFs this past week-investors
poured more than $3.8 billion into international equities
funds, according to data compiled by IndexUniverse. Broad-in-scope
emerging market funds such as the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets
Index Fund (NYSEArca:EEM) and the Vanguard MSCI Emerging Markets
ETF (NYSEArca:VWO) were again two of the most popular ETFs in the
period.
On the downside, commodities funds dominated the
bottom-performers list for the week ended Thursday, particularly
energy-focused strategies. A sharp drop in oil prices linked to a
glut in supplies was partly to blame.
The $429 million iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return ETN
(NYSEArca:OIL) dropped 5.8 percent, with more than 1 million shares
trading hands, on average, on a daily basis. The iPath Pure Beta
Crude Oil ETN (NYSEArca:OLEM) bled 5.7 percent.
But the bulk of the trading action among the worst-performing
funds of the week was in the $1.06 billion United States Natural
Gas Fund (NYSEArca:UNG), which slipped 5.8 percent amid an average
daily trading volume of more than 7.7 million shares.
Top 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse
Funds and 'lt;1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker |
Name |
Weekly Performance |
Weekly Volume |
AUM ($, mm) |
| AAIT |
iShares MSCI All Country Asia Information Technology |
8.74% |
1,317 |
1.34 |
| AXIT |
iShares MSCI ACWI ex-US Information Technology |
7.46% |
2,326 |
2.66 |
| AXMT |
iShares MSCI ACWI ex-US Materials |
6.96% |
1,640 |
2.69 |
| AXDI |
iShares MSCI ACWI ex-US Consumer Discretionary |
6.47% |
3,770 |
3.08 |
| IDXJ |
Market Vectors Indonesia Small Cap |
6.36% |
5,999 |
2.41 |
| INXX |
EGShares India Infrastructure |
5.47% |
96,911 |
55.00 |
| EMEY |
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Energy Sector Capped |
5.47% |
1,130 |
2.16 |
| UBM |
ETRACS CMCI Industrial Metals Total Return ETN |
5.20% |
18,750 |
5.57 |
| SCIF |
Market Vectors India Small-Cap |
4.92% |
232,179 |
41.51 |
| JUNR |
Global X Junior Miners ETF |
4.91% |
83,040 |
2.27 |
Bottom 10 Weekly Performers, Excluding Leverage/Inverse
Funds and 'lt;1,000 Shares Traded
| Ticker |
Name |
Weekly Performance |
Weekly Volume |
AUM ($, mm) |
| VIIZ |
VelocityShares VIX Mid Term ETN |
-10.12% |
1,140 |
6.12 |
| GRN |
iPath Global Carbon ETN |
-8.75% |
3,384 |
1.27 |
| GWO |
ELEMENTS Credit Suisse Global Warming ETN |
-8.08% |
1,087 |
2.87 |
| CVOL |
C-Tracks Exchange-Traded Notes on the Citi
Volatility |
-6.64% |
319,391 |
4.44 |
| JO |
iPath Dow Jones-UBS Coffee Total Return ETN |
-6.38% |
436,278 |
37.56 |
| SOYB |
Teucrium Soybeans |
-6.34% |
174,432 |
11.51 |
| OIL |
iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil Total Return ETN |
-5.84% |
5,375,724 |
429.79 |
| UNG |
United States Natural Gas |
-5.80% |
38,569,908 |
1,066.79 |
| TWTI |
RBS Oil Trendpilot ETN |
-5.76% |
44,647 |
7.80 |
| OLEM |
iPath Pure Beta Crude Oil ETN |
-5.71% |
16,130 |
21.28 |
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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