National Stock Exchange(R) (NSXSM) today launched the publication of month-end data reports on U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). Beginning with the June 2007 Report issued today, NSX will publish this key ETF data promptly following the end of each calendar month.
In its first published ETF Data Report, NSX today announced that at the end of June 2007, U.S. listed ETF assets reached $499.2 billion, up 42.3 percent from $350.7 billion at the end of June 2006. ETF notional trading volume totaled a record $1.2 billion in June 2007, approximately 25 percent of the total U.S. cash equity notional trading volume.
Net cash flow into ETFs at the end of June 2007 totaled $32.8 billion year-to-date, up 15.6 percent over the same year-ago period.
"With the number of U.S. listed ETFs on the rise and investor interest continuing to grow, these products represent an increasing proportion of trading activity in the cash and derivative markets," said Joseph Rizzello, Chief Executive Officer of NSX. "As a national securities exchange, NSX has a responsibility to deliver services and information where they are most needed. Given the phenomenal growth of these instruments, it is our intention to serve as a resource for ETF data by providing timely, comprehensive information useful to both investors and the ETF industry as a whole."
The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, including listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, Exchange-Trades Notes (ETNs) and commodity pools.
NSX's full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management (AUM), Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. View NSX's full ETF Data Report at: http://www.nsx.com/etf_data.asp.
The monthly ETF Data Reports add a new dimension to services offered by NSX to meet the changing needs of investors. In 2006, NSX implemented a new business strategy, which culminated in the last quarter of the year with the launch of an entirely new state-of-the-art technology platform. The new platform was built from the ground up to meet the speed, price and service needs in a post-Regulation NMS environment. It was designed to accommodate the broadest range of users, including ECNs, algorithmic traders and agency brokers.
NSX, the nation's first all-electronic stock exchange, is the cost-effective provider of exchange services. Having replaced its physical trading floor with a completely automated market in 1980, NSX has been a model of exchange efficiency and a driving force for change in the world of securities exchanges. Founded in 1885, NSX continues to lead the way in exchange innovation and is committed to aligning its interests with those of its customers.
To view NSX's monthly ETF Data Reports, go directly to: http://www.nsx.com/etf_data.asp. For more information on NSX, visit http://www.nsx.com.
