National Stock Exchange, Inc.(NSX®) today announced that net cash inflows into U.S. listed Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) and Exchange-Traded Notes (ETN) totaled $2.1 billion for January 2009, an increase of approximately 74% over $1.2 billion posted during January 2008. At the end of January 2009, the number of listed products totaled a record 861, compared to 678 listed products one year ago.
ETF/ETN notional trading volume reached $1.7 trillion for January 2009, representing 37% of all U.S. equity trading volume. ETF/ETN assets totaled approximately $505 billion in January 2009, a decrease of 14% from January 2008 when assets totaled $587 billion.
This data is included in NSX's January 2009 Month-End ETF/ETN Data Report released today. NSX began publishing monthly Data Reports in 2007 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 U.S. listed shares of investment companies, grantor trusts, ETNs and commodity pools.
NSX's full report provides ETF data on Assets Under Management, Net Cash Flow and Notional Volume, broken out by Issuer, by Category, and the Top 10 ETFs by Size. We recently expanded this report to also include additional categories. To view this report go to: http://www.nsx.com/content/market-data.
In addition, NSX publishes a product-by-product breakdown of the 861 products on which the data is based. The complete list can be accessed at: http://www.nsx.com/content/etf-product-list.
NSX is the cost-effective provider of exchange services, committed to aligning its interests with those of its customers. Founded in 1885, NSX has been a driving force for change in the world of securities exchanges and continues to lead the way in exchange innovation. For more information on NSX, visit www.nsx.com.