OREANDA-NEWS. INVEST Fair is ShareInvestor’s annual flagship event in Singapore for investors & traders and is the largest investment event in Singapore. 

SGX is participating with a pavilion presence themed “Save & Invest for Your Financial Future” where we will provide a one-stop shop to engage investors in their retirement planning through:

  • Stage presentations on investment topics like Market Outlook, Bonds, ETFs, REITs, Wealth Management, Portfolio Planning, Value investing etc.
  • ETF issuers with booth presence or speaking slots to promote knowledge and investing opportunities in ETFs include Nikko AM, Deutsche AM, iShares by Blackrock, FTSE Russell, State Street Global Advisors, iFast and SGX .
Best-performing ETF in the year-to-date is DBX MSCI BRAZIL (J0O) with a total return of 63.9%. The EIP ETF is a direct replicated ETF tracking the MSCI Brazil Index, with total fund assets of more than US$94 million as of 30 June 2016. Despite financial impact from loss of investor confidence due to the Zika virus outbreak, impeachment trial of President Dilma Rousseff, and falling commodity prices on the domestic economy, the MSCI Brazil ETF has surged in 2016. See a performance comparison of the DBX MSCI BRAZIL ETF (blue) vs the SPDR Straits Times ETF (pink) below.

Month-to-Date Performances

The 10 most active ETFs on SGX in the month of July were SPDR® Gold Shares, iShares MSCI India Index ETF, SPDR® Straits Times Index ETF, db x-trackers MSCI AC Asia Ex Japan Index UCITS ETF, db x-trackers MSCI Indonesia Index UCITS ETF, CIMB FTSE ASEAN40 ETF, db x-trackers MSCI Taiwan Index UCITS ETF (DR), db x-trackers S&P/ASX 200 UCITS ETF (DR), db x-trackers FTSE China 50 UCITS ETF (DR) and iShares J.P. Morgan USD Asia Credit Bond Index ETF.

In the month of July, these 10 most active ETFs averaged a total return of 4.9%, taking the one-year and three-year total returns to 3.1% and 13.7% respectively. The three best performers in terms of month-to-date total returns were db x-trackers MSCI Taiwan Index UCITS ETF (DR), db x-trackers S&P/ASX 200 UCITS ETF (DR) and db x-trackers MSCI Indonesia Index UCITS ETF.

The above-mentioned ETFs saw a 63.8% YoY increase in turnover for the month, increasing from S$128.5 million in July 2015 to S$210.5 million in the same period this year. This brings the total 12-month turnover to S$2.1 billion.

The three most active ETFs over the month of July were SPDR® Gold Shares, iShares MSCI India Index ETF and SPDR® Straits Times Index ETF.

The 10 most active ETFs in July 2016 are detailed below in Singapore dollars and sorted by MTD turnover.