The active ETF market experienced a slight downtick during the shortened New Year’s week, with total net assets exceeding $14.7 billion. The Global Bond category, led by the PIMCO’s Total Return ETF and Global Advantage Inflation-Linked Bond Strategy, had the highest weekly decrease in net assets by about $62 million. Net assets in the Alternative category decreased by almost $28 million, which included the AdvisorShares Ranger Equity Bear ETF. The Currency category also experienced a significant decrease in net assets by almost $14 million, which was led by the WisdomTree Dreyfus Brazilian Real Fund. State Street and WisdomTree each had close to a $20 million decrease in net assets which both were attributed mainly to decline in market value.
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Shares are not individually redeemable and owners of the shares may acquire those shares from the Funds and tender those shares for redemption to the Funds in Creation Unit aggregations only, typically consisting of 50,000 shares.
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