AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 12/04/2015

Assets in actively managed ETFs had a modest $10 million, five basis point, increase to $22.222 billion but that $10 million doesn’t really tell the story. There was actually $114 million in positive of fund flows, most of which was wiped off the books due to a decline in net assets value attributable in large part to the carnage in the MLP space.

For example, First Trust had $30 million in positive fund flows but lost $31 million in price movement. State Street had $128 million in new flows but endured a more modest $10 million price decline to net out at $118 million.

At the strategy level, Alternative Income, which includes MLPs had a $15 million positive flow but had a net change of $51 million to the negative decline in assets. The Alternative category had a negative flow of $6.9 million but lost a net $16 million for the week.

There was one new fund to list which brings the total number of active ETFs trading up to 136.

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Number of Active ETFs by Sponsor

 
Number of Active ETFs by Strategy

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Shares are not individually redeemable and owners of the shares may acquire those shares from the Funds and tender those shares for redemption to the Funds in Creation Unit aggregations only, typically consisting of 50,000 shares.