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Net assets/net sales of German fund industry

 

Net assets by the fund industry in Germany
(EUR billion)
  2006 2007 2008
2009 2010
Home-domiciled UCITS 271.552 266.064 184.920 220.934 249.421
Home-domiciled non-UCITS 741.881 775.810 719.978 798.806 876.105
Funds domiciled abroad
and promoted by
national providers
268.552 322.566 259.233 321.867 352.085
Total AuM (assets under management) 1,281.985 1,364.440 1,164.132

1,341.607

 

1,477.611

Reference dates: end of year in each case
Source: BVI

 

Net sales of investment funds in Germany
(EUR million)
  2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Home-domiciled UCITS -6,245.5 -13,444.0 -15,638.5 8,043.4 10.491.0
Home-domiciled non-
UCITS
41,153.3 34,479.1 17,390.8 36,364.9 66,456.7
Foreign domiciled funds
promoted by national
providers
30,193.5 45,827.5 -13,727.5 -12.049.9 9,277.7
Total net sales 65,101.3 66,862.6 -11,.975.4 32,358.4 86,225.4
Foreign-domiciled funds
promoted by foreign
providers
3,037.0 -7,938.5 4,118.6 1,929.6 3,890.4

Reference dates: end of year in each case
Source: BVI

 

In 2010, the rebound of UCITS after the global financial market crisis made good progress in terms of net sales as well as performance attribution. The between-year difference in net assets of EUR bn 29 can be assigned to net sales of Eur bn 10.5 and a performance component to be roughly estimated as of 8 percent. Influence of net sales was more pronounced in non-UCITS, their net assets growing by EUR bn 77.3 which is slightly less than in 2009. However, this growth is to a considerably greater extent attributable to net sales than performance if compared to the year before. From a historical point of view, never before the net assets of home-domiciled non-UCITS had been higher by end of the year than in 2010 (EUR bn 876). Net assets of round trip funds also reached an all-time high by breaking the threshold of EUR bn 350 in spite of only modest net sales. Home-domiciled UCITS, however, are still markedly behind their net assets shown before the crisis. Looking at the overall development of these three categories of investment funds, their aggregated assets under management amount to EUR bn 1,478 which is also well above the figures that have ever been reported before. Foreign funds of foreign origin kept their role in being the fourth important component of the German investment fund market. Since having been integrated in our statistics in 2006, they show quite a stable level of yearly net sales of about EUR bn 3 to 5 (with the exception of 2007 when they were hurt by the crisis to an extent similar to other market participants).



Looking at the within-year developments of net sales, no extreme seasonal patterns can be found which in total reflects a year lacking significant ruptures in the markets. This means that quarterly net sales may be derived by simply dividing the whole year figures by the number of 4. The only deviation from this rule is a rather weak Q2, especially for foreign funds distributed by foreign providers where the net sales even dropped below the zero line



 

 

 

 
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