Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3x Shares (NYSEArca: RUSS)
One-month gain: 41.1%
Comment: Investors have been living dangerously with Russian equities and the corresponding U.S.-listed ETFs. As we reported last week, the Market Vectors Russia ETF (NYSEArca: RSX) dipped into bear market territory, but that did not prevent the ETF from hauling in almost $610 million in new assets over the two months ended Oct. 1. That was the ETF’s best run of asset additions since 2011, report Elena Popina and Halia Pavliva for Bloomberg.
Interestingly, money has been pulled from RUSS over the past month, but the adventurous souls that have stayed involved with the ETF have been rewarded. RUSS is almost 12% just this month. [Bear Market not Keeping Investors from Russia ETFs]