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Ten Most Active ETFs Average 12% YTD Gains

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are open-ended investment funds listed and traded on a stock exchange. They aim to track the performance of an underlying index or assets.

In the year thus far, the 10 most active ETFs averaged gains of 12.3%. Eight of the ten ETFs track equity, while SPDR® Gold Shares tracks a commodity and iShares Asia High Yield Bond tracks fixed income.

All of the 10 most active ETFs have generated positive returns in the year-to-date, with returns ranging from 2.2% to 27.9%.

Tracker funds traded on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) are known as Exchange Traded Funds, or ETFs. These funds generally aim to track indices like the Straits Times Index (STI) or assets such as bonds. This means that by investing in ETFs, you are effectively investing in the price movements of the component stocks in the underlying asset class.

Take the SPDR® Straits Times Index ETF for instance. The underlying assets that this ETF tracks comprise 30 of the largest capitalised and most liquid stocks on the SGX. The ETF seeks to generate returns that closely correspond to the performance of the STI. According to SPDR®, the SPDR® STI ETF has generated annualised returns of 8.1% for investors over the past 10 years ending 31 December 2014.

Ten Most Active ETFs

The 10 most active ETFs by turnover have averaged 12.3% gain in the year-to-date, bringing their average one-year total return to 34.1%. The median return of the 10 ETFs is 9.2%, and YTD returns range from 2.2% to 27.9%. Eight of the ten ETFs track equity, while SPDR® Gold Shares tracks a commodity and iShares Asia High Yield Bond tracks fixed income.

With the exception of SPDR® Gold Shares, the most active ETFs have underlying assets that are widely diverse in terms of geography – Asia Pacific, China, India, Indonesia, and Singapore. Three of the 10 most active ETFs – db x-trackers CSI 300 UCITS ETF, United SSE50 China ETF, and db x-trackers MSCI China Index UCITS ETF track indexes that are listed in China, while two ETFs – SPDR® Straits Times Index ETF and Nikko AM Singapore STI ETF are listed in Singapore.

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