ETF Stats for November 2012 – Listing Count Increases

Data sources:  Daily prices and volume of individual ETPs from Norgate Premium Data.  Fund counts and all other information compiled by Invest With An Edge.

New products launched in November (sorted by launch date):

1. Pyxis Funds I (NYSEARCA:SNLN) [Pyxis Enters ETF Arena With Senior Junk Fund]

2. RBS Rogers Enhanced Agriculture (NYSEARCA:RGRA) [RBS Rolls Out Five Rogers Enhanced Commodity ETNs]

3. RBS Rogers Enhanced Commodity (NYSEARCA:RGRC)

4. RBS Rogers Enhanced Energy (NYSEARCA:RGRE)

5. RBS Rogers Enhanced Industrial Metals (NYSEARCA:RGRI)

6. RBS Rogers Enhanced Precious Metals (NYSEARCA:RGRP)

7. PureFunds ISE Diamonds/Gemstone ETF (GEMS) [Three New Pure Play ETFs From FactorShares PureFunds]

8. PureFunds ISE Mining Service (NYSEARCA:MSXX)

9. PureFunds ISE Junior Silver (Small cap Miners/Explorers) (NYSEARCA:SILJ)

Product closures/delistings in November (sorted by name):

1. QuantShares U.S.Mkt Neutral Anti-Momentum (NOMO) [QuantShares Closing 3 Market Neutral ETFs]

2. QuantSharesU.S.Market Neutral High Beta (BTAH)

3. QuantSharesU.S.Market Neutral Quality (QLT)

Product changes in November:

1. iShares MSCI Belgium Investable Mkt (NYSEARCA:EWK) changed its name and underlying index effective November 9, 2012.  The new name is iShares MSCI Belgium Investable Mkt (NYSEARCA:EWK).

Announced Product Changes for Coming Months:

1. WisdomTree will close three ETFs (two actively managed currency funds and an earnings weighted large cap growth fund) with December 3 being the last of trading for WisdomTree Dreyfus Japanese Yen Fd (NYSEARCA:JYF), WisdomTree Dreyfus South African Rand Fd (NYSEARCA:SZR), and WisdomTree LargeCap Growth Fund (NYSEARCA:ROI).

2. IndexIQ will close the Index IQ ETF Trust (NYSEARCA:EMER) with the last day of trading set for December 18 (EMER press release).

3. Guggenheim will terminate on or about December 31 the Guggenheim Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (NYSEARCA:BSCC) and the Guggenheim Claymore Exchange-Traded Fund Trust (NYSEARCA:BSJC) ETFs due to their planned maturity and liquidation.

4. Vanguard fired MSCI as the underlying index provider for 22 of its funds. During the first half of 2013, six international funds will move from MSCI to FTSE indexes while 16 domestic products will transition from MSCI to CRSP indexes.

Previous monthly ETF statistics reports are available here.

This article was originally written by Ron Rowland, and posted on InvestWithAnEdge.