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By Patrick Keon Positive net flows into equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) (+$55.5 billion) have far outweighed those into equity mutual funds (+$6.9 billion) for the year to date. Investors putting more net new money into equity ETFs as opposed to equity mutual funds has been true for every year except one (2013) since the global financial crisis. What jumps out about this year’s fund flows activity for equity ETFs is that nondomestic equity ETFs have dominated equity ETFs. Nondomestic equity ETFs have grown their coffers by almost $64 billion so far for 2015, while domestic equity ETFs have seen over $8 billion leave. If this trend holds through year-end, 2015 will be the first year since 2010 that nondomestic equity funds have had more net inflows than domestic ones. Nondomestic barely nudged out domestic for most net inflows for 2010 (+$34.0 billion versus +$33.7 billion), while the roughly $70-billion spread for this year would be by far the highest annual difference between the two groups for the 20 years Lipper has been tracking the data. It stands to reason then that nine of the ten largest net inflows among equity ETFs this year have been for nondomestic products. These nine ETFs are split up between MSCI EAFE (4), Europe (3), and Japan (2) products. The MSCI EAFE ETFs have taken in the most net new money (+$24.3 billion) of the three groups, followed closely by Europe ETFs (+$21.6 billion), with the Japan products recording more-modest gains (+$8.5 billion). The single largest positive net inflows belong to Deutsche X-trackers MSCI EAFE Hedged Equity ETF ( DBEF , +$12.9 billion). Conversely, the largest equity ETFs are two S&P 500 Index products: SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY , $168.0 billion of assets under management) and iShares Core S&P 500 ETF ( IVV , $63.8 billion of assets under management); each has seen money leave this year. SPY has had net outflows of almost $36 billion for YTD 2015, while IVV is down $1.1 billion. Scalper1 News
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