In March 2016, ETFs/ETPs saw net inflows of US$45.30 billion. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with US$26.30 billion, followed by fixed income ETFs/ETPs with US$14.80 Bn, and commodity ETFs/ETPs with US$2.42 billion.
In March 2016, 71 new ETFs/ETPs were launched by 27 providers and 30 ETFs/ETPs were closed.
iShares gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows in March with US$20.97 billion, followed by Vanguard with US$9.74 billion and SPDR ETFs with US$6.25 Bn in net inflows.
YTD, iShares gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows YTD with US$24.54 billion, followed by Vanguard with US$17.82 billion and SPDR ETFs with US$8.78 Bn net inflows.
S&P Dow Jones has the largest amount of ETF/ETP assets tracking its benchmarks with 27.5% market share; MSCI is second with 14.6% market share, followed by FTSERussell with 12.4% market share.