National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX(R)) today announced that U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) assets totaled almost $493 billion at the end of October, 2008, a decrease of 17.6% from October, 2007 month-end assets of $598 billion. Net cash inflows for the month of October 2008 were $6.8 billion, bringing the total net cash flow for calendar year 2008 to over $109 billion.
ETF/ETN notional trading volume during October 2008 totaled a record $3.3 trillion, representing 38% of all U.S. equity trading volume. At the end of October 2008, the number of listed products totaled 806, compared to 627 listed products one year ago.
This data is included in NSX's October 2008 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released today. NSX began publishing Data Reports with the release of the June 2007 Report and has become a key industry source for ETF/ETN data. These Data Reports are published following the end of each calendar month. Furthermore, NSX has expanded this data report to show additional information regarding net inflows, outflows and Assets Under Management (AUM).
The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, encompassing listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, ETNs and commodity pools.
NSX's full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management, Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. To view this report go to: http://www.nsx.com/content/market-data.
In addition, NSX publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 806 products on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/content/etf-product-list.
