The ETF/ETP industry in Europe gathered $14.9bn in net new assets which is the largest amount of monthly net inflows gathered in a month, surpassing the previous record of $10.8bn in net inflows set in July 2014. 

The European ETF/ETP industry had 2,095 ETFs/ETPs, with 6,347 listings, assets of US$466 Bn, from 50 providers on 26 exchanges according to preliminary data from ETFGI’s end January 2015 global ETF and ETP industry insights report.

In January 2015, ETFs/ETPs saw net inflows of $14.9bn. Equity ETFs/ETPs gathered the largest net inflows with $9.0bn, followed by fixed income ETFs/ETPs with $5.2bn, and commodity ETFs/ETPs with $760m.

“The ECB announced on January 22nd a stimulus package which will total $1.27trn based on buying $69bn a month in public and private bonds to stimulate the European economy. The S&P 500 was down 4%, developed markets were flat, emerging markets were down slightly while frontier markets where down 3% in January,” said Deborah Fuhr, managing partner at ETFGI.

iShares gathered the largest net ETF/ETP inflows in January with $6.5bn, followed by UBS GAM with $2.3bn, db x/db ETC with $1.5bn, Lyxor with $1.3bn and ETF Securities with $825m in net inflows.

In January 2015, 18 new ETFs/ETPs were launched by 6 providers and 16 ETFs/ETPs closed. The number of ETFs/ETPs with assets above $1bn has increased over the past year from 83 in January 2014 to 106 ETFs/ETPs in January 2015.