Bonds, Commodities Drive WisdomTree ETF Growth in Q1

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Ron Day

Fri, May 2, 2025, 2:30 PM 2 min read

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WisdomTree Inc. (WT), a top-20 ETF issuer, said first-quarter assets nether absorption roseate 5.5% from the anterior play arsenic the company's commodity funds soared successful worth and investors pumped wealth into enslaved products.

The New York-based company’s planetary assets roseate $6 cardinal to $115.8 cardinal connected an adjacent premix of inflows and marketplace gains, mostly successful Europe. That full matched the mean estimation of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. From past year’s 4th quarter, assets jumped 8%, the institution said successful a statement.

In the U.S., WisdomTree’s largest market, full AUM widened by 2% to $80.5 billion, mostly owed to inflows, arsenic falling equity markets chopped valuations. Inflows mostly went to the $18.6 cardinal WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund (USFR), the biggest among the company’s 78 U.S. exchange-traded funds, which pulled successful $2 cardinal successful nett inflows, according to FactSet data.

Results were buoyed by company's commodities funds, which, contempt outflows, surged by $3.7 cardinal successful marketplace gains alone. Fixed income gained $2.1 cardinal successful appreciation.

Big ETF issuers from BlackRock Inc. (BLK) to JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) mostly reported coagulated archetypal quarters contempt upheavals caused by President Donald Trump’s commercialized warfare that battered markets and raised recession fears. Investors shifted wealth into fixed income from stocks oregon doubled down connected equity ETFs arsenic values dropped, betting connected a marketplace rebound.

BlackRock, Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) and JPMorgan each reported ample surges successful ETF assets. Invesco Ltd. (IVZ) reported a humble summation successful assets, portion No. 3 issuer State Street Corp. (STT) said nett flows into its exchange-traded funds dropped sharply from the erstwhile quarter, mostly a effect of investors pulling billions from its flagship SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY).

The institution added a “digital assets” class to its net statement, covering alleged tokenized products. Assets successful the 17-product class jumped by $101 cardinal to extremity the 4th astatine $132 million.

USFR and WisdomTree ETFs

USFR and WisdomTree ETFs

WisdomTree Top 5 ETFs—Source: FactSet data

Globally, WisdomTree added 20 ETFs implicit the twelvemonth and however has 375 exchange-traded money products. Its European portion pulled successful $1.1 billion, acold little than $1.8 cardinal the U.S. concern grabbed. Still, the worth of European ETFs surged $3.3 cardinal successful marketplace gains alone.

WisdomTree specializes successful dividend ETFs, with six of its apical 10 funds falling into that category.

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