{"id":63024,"date":"2017-05-16T01:53:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T23:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/news\/european-etf-market-trends-april-2017-in-brief\/"},"modified":"2019-12-31T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T00:56:11","slug":"european-etf-market-trends-april-2017-in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/news\/european-etf-market-trends-april-2017-in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"European ETF Market Trends &#8211; April 2017 in brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> <strong>European ETF market flows slowed down substantially in April 2017.<br \/>\nNet New Assets (NNA) during the month amounted to EUR4.4bn, the<br \/>\nlowest since December 2016. Total Assets under Management are up 11%<br \/>\nvs. the end of 2016, reaching EUR572bn, including a positive market impact<br \/>\nof 4%. European and Global equities benefited from attractive valuations<br \/>\ncompared to the US.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Equity ETF inflows pulled back at EUR2.7bn.<\/strong> This may be explained by the EUR1.6bn of<br \/>\noutflows from US equities, in a context of expensive valuations and political uncertainty in the US.<br \/>\nThe easing of political risk in Europe benefited European equity ETFs which gathered EUR2.4bn of<br \/>\nNNA. Significant inflows into global ETFs at EUR1.1.bn continued to reflect increased optimism in<br \/>\na supportive economic environment. Asia Pacific equity ETFs recovered with inflows of EUR190M<br \/>\nafter the release of strong data supporting a positive view for the region. On the emerging markets<br \/>\nside, inflows slowed down to EUR768M as China\u2019s outlook raised questions and oil prices were<br \/>\nvolatile. Those flows were almost exclusively focused on broad emerging markets equity ETFs.<br \/>\nSmart Beta ETFs experienced once again a trend reversal with inflows of EUR212M. Inflows into<br \/>\nIncome generating ETFs were significant at EUR446M in a decreasing yield environment, whereas<br \/>\nflows in Value ETFs remained negative at \u2013EUR164M.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Fixed income ETFs also recorded lower inflows at EUR1.3bn.<\/strong> Interestingly, they were<br \/>\nlargely focused on Emerging debt ETFs, with inflows of EUR950M as the search for yield<br \/>\ncontinued. European Govies ETF flows turned positive in a less risky political context, with<br \/>\nEUR212M of NNA. High yield ETFs also turned positive with EUR186M of NNA. After an 11-month<br \/>\nrecord high in March, Investment grade corporate bond ETFs experienced a substantial trend<br \/>\nreversal with EUR169M of outflows. Flows into inflation-linked ETFs were back in negative territory<br \/>\nwith EUR215M of outflows as monetary policy normalisation looms in the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Commodities ETF flows were fairly significant at EUR372M<\/strong> and were mainly focused on broad commodity ETFs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-finance.net\/http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" aligncenter size-full wp-image-62999\" src=\"IMG\/jpg\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_.jpg\" alt=\"european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"1275\" height=\"719\" \/><\/a><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-63024 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-herald-lay-c1'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"herald-popup\" href='http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_.jpg'><img width=\"470\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-470x313.jpg\" class=\"attachment-herald-lay-c1 size-herald-lay-c1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-470x313.jpg 470w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-414x276.jpg 414w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-640x426.jpg 640w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-130x86.jpg 130w, http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/european_etfs_in_april_2017_-_net_inflows_eurm_-187x124.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European ETF market flows slowed down substantially in April 2017.<br \/>\nNet New Assets (NNA) during the month amounted to EUR4.4bn, the<br \/>\nlowest since December 2016. Total Assets under Management are up 11%<br \/>\nvs. the end of 2016, reaching EUR572bn, including a positive market impact<br \/>\nof 4%&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1470],"tags":[1809,1655,1718,1651,2214,1662,1672],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024"}],"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=63024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63025,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63024\/revisions\/63025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beta.next-finance.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}