- Over the month of August the Australian ETF Market grew by 3.72% and reached a high of $41.150 bn across 178 products as at 30th August 2018
- There were net flows into ETFs of $532m
- Vanguard is still the largest ETF Provider in Australia with $11.996 bn in AUM with net inflows of $229.97 m.
- SPDR, UBS and Switzer were the only two ETF Providers to see net outflows in the month of August with -$241.34m, -$1.17m and -$0.9m respectively.
- By product:
- The BetaShares Australia 200 ETF saw the biggest inflows with $108.93m
- The SPDR S&P/ASX 200 ETF saw the biggest outflows with -$244.73m
- Looking at performance we saw thematic ETFs dominate the best performing products with the BetaShares Global Cybersecurity ETF achieving a 12.12% monthly return.
- The worst performers were dominated by gold mining equity ETFs with the BetaShares Global Gold Miners ETF - Currency Hedged returning -12.05% and the VanEck Vectors Gold Miners ETF returning -9.52% for the month of August.
- In what may win the ETF code of the year we also saw the launch on Monday 3rd September 2018 of ACDC by ETF Securities. ACDC is a thematic ETF focused on the megatrend of battery technology and lithium mining. It provides exposure to a global equal weight portfolio and ACDC compliments ETF Securities Future/Present range which already includes the global technology sector fund – TECH and the robotics, automation and AI thematic fund – ROBO. For more information please view the latest fact sheet and investment case from ETF Securities:
- Factsheet
- Investment case
