National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX®) today announced that assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) totaled approximately $489.2 billion at March 2009 month-end, a decrease of 16% from March 2008 when assets totaled approximately $583 billion. March 2009 net cash inflows from all ETFs/ETNs totaled $8.1 billion.
ETF/ETN notional trading volume totaled approximately $2 trillion for March 2009, representing 38% of all U.S. equity trading volume. In addition, at the end of March 2009, the number of listed products totaled 839, compared to 699 listed products one year ago.
This data is included in the full NSX March 2009 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released by the Exchange, which has become a key industry source for ETF/ETN data. These Data Reports are published following the end of each calendar month.
The NSX monthly statistics include shares of open-end exchange-traded products, encompassing U.S. 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 various categories. NSX also offers access to historical monthly reports. To view the full reports go to: http://www.nsx.com/content/market-data.
In addition, NSX publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 839 products on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/content/etf-product-list.