AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 12/24/2015

Assets in actively managed ETFs had a strong positive flow of $317 million, or 1.4%, to $22.704 billion in the holiday shortened week. There was one new fund launch last week, which brings the total up to 137.

PowerShares led the way with $166 million of inflows, followed by $60 million to First Trust and $40 million to State Street. Outflows were of course smaller with $30 million from PIMCO and $11 million from WisdomTree. Price appreciation also contributed to gains last week, most notably at First Trust.

At the strategy level, Alternative added $160 million. Alternative Income had positive flows of $40 million as well as an additional $42 million from NAV growth. Multi-Asset had outflows of $16 million. The Currency category had an outflow of $11 million but lost an addition $18 million due to adverse trading. Finally, the Tactical category had $3 million in outflows but a net gain of $19 million, thanks to favorable NAV performance.

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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.