European Smart beta ETF market flows are still positive in the
\nsecond quarter of 2015, but growth has decelerated compared
\nto Q1\u00a02015. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) year to date (30\/06\/2015)
\namounted to EUR\u00a02.3\u00a0billion, i.e. 60% of the 2014 NNA within the
\nfirst half of the year. Total assets under management are up 41%
\ncompared to the end of 2014, reaching EUR\u00a010.9\u00a0billion. Year to
\ndate, ETF flows are still sustained on all three smart beta categories
\neven though Q2 2015 have been impacted by increasing market
\nvolatility.<\/p>\n
Definition of smart beta ETFs:<\/strong> smart beta denotes rules-based investment strategies Q2\u00a02015 was the smallest quarter in terms of inflows for smart beta ETFs over the European Smart beta ETF market flows are still positive in the second quarter of 2015, but growth has decelerated compared to Q1\u00a02015. NET NEW ASSETS (NNA) year to date (30\/06\/2015) amounted to EUR\u00a02.3\u00a0billion, i.e. 60% of the 2014 NNA within the first half of the year. Total assets under management are up 41% compared to the end of 2014, reaching EUR\u00a010.9\u00a0billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1655,1718,1651,2007,1662,2234,2068,1672,2118],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43664"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat do not rely on market capitalisation. We have used 3\u00a0sub-segments to classify all
\nthe products that are included in this category. First, there are risk based strategies<\/strong>
\nbased on volatilities and other quantitative methods. Secondly, there are fundamental
\nstrategies<\/strong> based on the economic footprint of a firm or state \u2013 through accountant ratios
\nor macro-economic measures, respectively. Lastly, there are factor strategies<\/strong>, which
\ninclude homogeneous ranges of single-factor products and multifactor products designed
\npurposely for factor allocation.<\/p>\n
\nspan of one year, in line with the overall European ETF market flow trends in May
\nand June, which were highly impacted by the increasing volatility on all markets.<\/strong>
\nIn
\nthis context, fundamental ETFs continued to be favored with still some inflows on
\nthe fundamentally build benchmark Nikkei\u00a0400 and also significant inflows on the Quality
\nincome indices.<\/quote>
\n The latter offer attractive dividend yields and defensive profiles against a
\nbackdrop of heightened uncertainties and low interest rates. For the first time, risk-based
\nETFs<\/strong> have started to see some outflows, in particular on Min Vol\/Low Vol ETFs. In the
\nfactor allocation space<\/strong>, investors have also been rather cautious in May and June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"