National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX®) announced that assets in U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) continue to reach record levels, totaling approximately $1.08 trillion at March 2011 month-end, an increase of approximately 31% over March 2010 month-end when assets totaled almost $820 billion. At the end of March 2011, the number of listed products totaled 1,173 compared to 971 listed products at the same time last year.
ETF/ETN net cash inflows for March 2011 totaled approximately $11.2 billion. First quarter 2011 cash inflows reached over $28.9 billion, an increase of 240% over the same time period in 2010 when net cash flows reached $8.5 billion. ETF/ETN notional trading volume during March 2011 totaled approximately $1.8 trillion, representing almost 31% of all U.S. equity trading volume.
This and more data is included in the full NSX March 2011 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.
To view the full reports go to: http://www.nsx.com/content/market-data. NSX also publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 1,173 products on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/content/etf-product-list.
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.
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