Association of Investment Management Companies

Posted Date: 19 May 2009

Association of Investment Management Companies (AIMC) organized
2009 ETFs Development Strategies Seminar

Association of Investment Management Companies together with Polaris International Securities Investment Trust Co., Ltd, Taiwan organized a 2009 ETFs Development Strategies Seminar on 19 May 2009 at Grand Sheraton Sukhumvit in order to present the development of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) both in regional and global scale, which included an exchange of knowledge and experience in setting up and managing ETFs effectively to Thai fund mangers.

Currently, passive investing is a popular strategy among ETFs investors. At the end of Q1 2009, the global ETF industry had 1,635 ETFs with 2,857 listings, assets of USD 633.55 billion from 87 providers on 43 exchanges around the world. Nevertheless, the economic slowdown last year caused ETF asset under management (AUM) to drop by 11 percent, while MSCI World Index down by 42 percent. According to a 2008 survey from INVESCO, ETFs are now playing a major role in pension funds. The pension in Europe and America continuously increase their use of ETFs, where the country that has shown a major shift in the use of ETFs is France.

In Asia, there are 194 ETFs with assets of USD 45.56 Billion. Japan has the highest number of ETFs listing, 64 ETFs with assets of USD 23.39 Billion, which then followed by South Korea and Singapore.

Traditional ETF investment only covered blue-chip indices such as S&P 500, FTSE100, Hang Seng, and Nikkei. However, new ETF evolved from proliferation of new indices that diverse ETFs investment into different type like Fixed Income ETFs, Shariah ETFs, Real Estate ETFs, Emerging Market ETFs or even Dividend ETFs.

For Thailand, Equity ETFs was first introduced in 2007. Now, the market has 2 ETFs, ThaiDEX SET50 ETF (TEDX) with SET 50 market-weighted index as its underlying asset  and M Track Energy (ENGY) with SET ENERGY as its underlying asset, with total assets of USD 0.05 Billion

For more Information please contact: 
Association of Investment Management Companies
Tel: 02-2640900 Fax: 02-2640904

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