ETF Weekly – Apr 8, 2018

Performance

The iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF (ITB) outperformed all other non-leveraged ETF for the week ending April 6, 2018, finishing up about 2.5%. The next best performer this week was iShares Global Timber & Forestry ETF (WOOD), with a 2.0% gain.

And underperforming this week was the PowerShares DWA Healthcare Momentum Portfolio ETF (PTH), trading down -4.8% this week. The First Trust NYSE Arca Biotechnology Index Fund (FBT) also fell about -4.6% this week.

Source: ETF Channel

Launches

Closures

Filings

Source: ETF.com

Fund Flows

  • For the third week in a row, US listed ETFs shed assets, this time some -$3.0B. US Equity funds led the way again with $-$9.7B of weekly outflows. US Fixed Income picked up net inflows of $4.9B, in flight to safety. International Equity ETFs picked up a small inflow of $155M, while Commodity ETFs had a $825M pickup.
  • The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) lost about $-6.7B
  • The largest individual inflows this week were into the iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF (IWM), totaling $937M.
  • The Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) led all ETFs in outflows this week, this side of SPY, with -$1.1B.

Detailed Fund Flows: ETF.com

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