Tradeweb ETF Update – Throughout June, trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 55.1 billion, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 82.8%.
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Adam Gould, head of equities at Tradeweb
Volume breakdown
All asset classes saw net selling for the second consecutive month. Activity in commodity ETFs, where ‘sells’ outstripped ‘buys’ by 34 percentage points, increased to 8% of the total platform flow in June. North America Equities was once again the most actively-traded category, with nearly EUR 11.8 billion in total notional volume.
Top ten by traded notional volume
The iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF held on to the top spot for another month. In second place, the Lyxor Commodities Refinitiv/CoreCommodity CRB TR UCITS ETF is benchmarked against an index tracking the changes in the prices of the futures contracts on energy, metals and agricultural products
Adam Gould, head of equities at Tradeweb, said: “As ETFs increasingly become a staple in the toolkits of investors, we’ve seen many continue to embrace electronic RFQ as their preferred execution method. Year over year, monthly U.S. ETF activity on Tradeweb was up 135% and for the first half of 2022, volumes rose 125%.”
Top ten by traded notional volume
During the month, 2,027 unique tickers traded on the Tradeweb U.S. ETF marketplace. Fixed income products dominated June’s top ten list by traded notional volume, with the Vanguard Short-Term Bond Index Fund ETF moving up five places from May to be ranked first.
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