National Stock Exchange, Inc. (NSX(R)) today announced that U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) assets reached $593.3 billion at the end of September 2008, an increase of almost 5 percent over $566.2 billion reached one year ago. In addition, net cash inflows for the month of September 2008 reached a new monthly record total of $57.2 billion.
ETF/ETN notional trading volume during September 2008 totaled $2.8 trillion, representing a record 35% of all U.S. equity trading volume. At the end of September 2008, the number of listed products totaled 813, compared to 593 listed products one year ago.
This data is included in NSX's September 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.
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 (AUM), 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 813 products on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/content/etf-product-list.