Asia ETPs hit YTD high; US less positive

August was the fourth month in a row with inflows or more than $2bn. Despite volatility in the equity markets throughout the month, the majority of the inflows were in equity ETFs ($3.8bn), with Asia Pacific developed country ETFs, leveraged and short ETFs seeing the majority of that. Emerging country ETFs had outflows. Gold exchange-traded products (ETPs) had inflows of $167mn during August, helped by falling markets. At the end of the month, markets in Asia had risen on the previous week, with the exception of China -the CSI 300 was down 3.36% from the previous week. As the marke...