AdvisorShares Active ETF Market Share Update – Week Ending 2/10/2017

Assets in actively managed ETFs experienced a net gain of $380 million to reach $31.233 billion in total net assets. The number of active ETFs trading declined by four to 161. Alpha Architect, sponsor of MomentumShares and ValueShares, successfully changed the SEC exemptive of their four ETFs from actively managed to passively managed. While not covered in last week’s active ETF market share update, this change went into effect on February 1st.

On the provider level, First Trust grew by $143 million, PIMCO added $121 million and State Street gained $84 million. Aside from the aforementioned change at Alpha Architect, the only other outflows of note came from Guggenheim, which realized a $19 million decline.

At the strategy level, Short Term Bond witnessed an increase of $147 million, Global Bond gained $75 million and Alternative Income added $55 million. No strategy category lost more than $5 million during the last one week period.

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Number of Active ETFs by Sponsor

 
Number of Active ETFs by Strategy

There are risks involved with investing in ETFs including possible loss of money. Shares are actively managed and are subject to risk similar to stocks, including those related to short selling and margin maintenance. Ordinary brokerage commissions apply.

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.