Quantcast
The MFWire
Manage Email Alerts | Sponsorships | About MFWire | Who We Are

Subscribe to MFWire.com's News Alerts [click]

Rating:Three Leveraged ETFs Have 'Atypical' Presence Among Retail Investors, a Study Finds Not Rated 0.0 Email Routing List Email & Route  Print Print
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Three Leveraged ETFs Have 'Atypical' Presence Among Retail Investors, a Study Finds

Reported by Meredith Mazzilli

State Street Global Advisors' Mid Year ETF Review, released Wednesday, gave a special look to leveraged/inverse ETFs in light of the continued growth of the products. With regards to the scope of the leveraged/inverse space, the report noted that asset levels for the leveraged/inverse category had risen to $32 billion from $11 billion in the beginning of 2008. In the month of June, leveraged/inverse products represented three of the top ten ETFs in terms of notational dollar volume, and traded upwards of $1.5 billion per day.

The report mentioned that the top three leveraged/inverse funds by assets had an "atypical" presence among retail investors. The proportion of institutional ownership in these three leveraged/inverse funds -- ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury, ProShares UltraShort S&P 500 and ProShares Ultra Financials, which had 24.42, 11.14 and 9.68 percent institutional ownership, respectively -- was described in the report as "limited relative to some of the larger ETFs in the universe."

For comparison's sake, the report listed the percentage of institutional ownership for SPDR S&P 500, Gold Shares and MSCI Emerging Markets as 87.65, 45.08 and 66.15 percent, respectively.

The report made reference to regulatory notice issued by FINRA last month, and stressed the point that long-term holdings of daily return structured products can result in discrepancies between fund performance and the stated multiples of the underlying index. This echoes concern exhibited by Edward Jones, which, as reported by the WSJ Tuesday, has dropped leveraged ETFs from the lineup of investment products it makes available to clients. 

Stay ahead of the news ... Sign up for our email alerts now
CLICK HERE

0.0
 Do You Recommend This Story?



GO TO: MFWire
Return to Top
 News Archives
2024: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2023: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2022: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2021: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2020: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2019: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2018: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2017: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2016: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2015: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2014: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2013: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2012: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2011: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2010: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2009: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2008: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2007: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2006: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2005: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2004: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2003: Q4Q3Q2Q1
2002: Q4Q3Q2Q1
 Subscribe via RSS:
Raw XML
Add to My Yahoo!
follow us in feedly




©All rights reserved to InvestmentWires, Inc. 1997-2024
14 Wall Street | 20th Floor | New York, NY 10005 | P: 212-331-8968 | F: 212-331-8998
Privacy Policy :: Terms of Use