Laurent Kssis at LaBranche Structured Products Europe (LSPE) discusses European ETF trades for the week ending 11 February.
ETFs investing in Europe and Japan attracted very large inflows last week as developed markets continued to prove popular with investors. The iShares S&P 500 topped the leaderboard for the fourth week running on inflows of $158m, and demand for growth stocks has also returned. iShares reported creations worth $38m on its Eurostoxx Total Market Growth Large ETF, of which LSPE supplied 20%. Meanwhile money continued to come out of emerging market (EM) ETFs, with redemptions worth $3.1bn taking outflows over the past three weeks to $13.3bn. Last week we saw large outflows totalling $...
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