Assets under management of Asia Pacific exchange-traded products increased by USD0.8bn last week and ended at USD112.2bn, according to data released by Deutsche Bank.

On a year-to-date basis, Asia-Pacific ETP market is up by USD20.7bn or 22.6 per cent above last year’s closing.

Asia-Pacific ETP turnover totalled USD5.6bn for last week, 5.2 per cent down from the previous week’s total.

South Korea continued to be on top of the turnover ranking with USD2.7bn, followed by China (USD1.5bn), Hong Kong (USD0.8bn), Japan (USD0.3bn), and Australia (USD0.1bn).

Among equity ETFs, emerging country, leveraged strategy, short strategy, and Asia Pac developed country ETFs had total turnover of USD2.6bn, USD1.4bn, USD0.9bn, and USD0.5bn respectively. Under the commodity asset class, turnover in gold ETPs totalled USD40m for the last week.

Last week, two new products were launched in the Asia-Pacific ETP market. China Asset Management listed one equity ETF on the Hong Kong Exchange tracking the CSI 300 Index. Fubon Securities Investment Trust listed one equity ETF on the Taiwan Stock Exchange tracking the Taiwan 50 Index.