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Global political upheaval offers a silver lining to ETP flows

Global political upheaval offers a silver lining to ETP flows ETF SecuritiesGlobal political upheaval offers a silver lining to ETP flow

ETF Securities – Global political upheaval offers a silver lining to ETP flows

Highlights

  • Silver ETPs attracted the lion’s share of inflows.
  • Inflows into global equity ETPs led by robotics rose to their highest level in 8 weeks.
  • Safe haven currency seekers drove inflows into long yen ETPs to their highest level on record.

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Silver ETPs attracted the lion’s share of inflows, worth US$54.5mn, marking its highest level of inflows since September 2017. The main catalyst has been the political tensions emanating between the UK and Russia over the poison attack on a former Russian spy in England. Britain has imposed sanctions on Russia and in retaliation Russia intends to expel British diplomats. The US, France and Germany have also shown their support for the UK and hold Russia responsible for the poison attack.

Added to that, the frequent shake-up of the Trump Administration, which last week saw the dismissal of secretary of state Rex Tillerson owing to differences over foreign policy issues, have raised concerns over protectionist US policies. Silver is attractively priced, with the gold to silver price ratio remaining elevated relative to recent history. We continue to have a positive view on silver’s fundamentals owing to a strong industrial cycle and constrained mine supply and expect silver to play catch-up in 2018.

Gold ETP flows reversed the prior week’s anomaly of inflows in 2018 by posting outflows of US$28.7mn. Gold prices tend to show weakness in the run-up to Fed meetings. This was evident last week as investors shifted their attention to this week’s Federal Reserve policy meeting, gold prices headed for their biggest weekly drop in a month. The key takeaway will be the likelihood of four rate hikes in the Fed’s projected dot plot for 2018.

Inflows into global equity ETPs, led by robotics worth US$24mn rose to their highest level in eight weeks. Looming political risks and rising protectionist policies caused global equity markets to end the week on a weaker footing. As a consequence investors sought to increase exposure to niche sectors within technology such as robotics and cybersecurity.

Redemptions from US equities totalling US$9.8mn led by Master Limited Partnership (MLPs) rose to their highest level since June 2015. Subsequent to the ruling from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) last week disallowing income tax recovery on interstate pipeline contracts, the MLP industry faced a broad sell off. We believe this is an overreaction. We expect pipelines owned by MLPs that cross state lines and rely on FERC-regulated tariffs to be the most impacted by this ruling.

Long Yen ETPs attracted the highest inflows on record amounting to US$25.2mn as investors took shelter among safe haven currencies amidst the global political upheaval.

Tighter monetary policy signalled by Norway’s central bank led to US$9.3mn of outflows from NOK ETPs. Last week Norway’s central bank signalled it will raise interest rates faster than expected supported by higher growth and a change in the inflation target. This led buoyancy to the Norwegian Krona, that surged 0.9%, reaching its highest level since November 2017.

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Gold retains its popularity despite record sentiment highs

Gold retains its popularity despite record sentiment highs

Commodity ETP Weekly – Gold retains its popularity despite record sentiment highs

  • Flows into gold ETPs did not abate last week, with inflows totalling US$121mn, alongside silver ETP inflows of US$17mn.
  • Crude oil ETPs recorded a 7th consecutive week of inflows of US$193mn last week.
  • Industrial metal inflows continued, with the majority of the US$14mn accruing to copper ETPs.

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Flows in to gold did not abate last week, with inflows totalling$121mn, alongside inflows of US$17mn into silver ETPs. CFTC futures data highlights sentiment for gold being close to an all-time-high (mean-adjusted) since data was first collected in 1995. Nonetheless, we continue to see very little flow into short gold ETPs, with inflows of $0.8m. Historically strong inflows into long positions have been accompanied with steady rises in short positions. Whilst sentiment remains exceptionally high for gold we believe it is justified for several reasons. Firstly, negative yields across Europe mean gold carry costs are now less than holding a Swiss or German government bond. Secondly, populist politics in Europe and the US remain prevalent, with many populist parties leading in polls. Finally, the US monetary policy trajectory remains unclear due recent US Dollar strength and mixed economic data. Our fair value for gold remains at US$1440/oz.

Crude oil ETPs recorded a 7th consecutive week of inflows of US$193mn, although unsurprisingly following price returns of 12% over the last few weeks, inflows have slowed this week to US$5mn compared to US$113mn the previous week. We believe the oil price will remain range bound from US$40 to US$55 per barrel.

Industrial metal inflows continued with flows over the week of US$13.9mn. The majority of inflows accrued to copper ETPs, totalling US$10.4mn. We believe this is due to state owned enterprises in China having accelerated their fixed asset investment in the first half according to data recently released by the CEIC, rising 23.5% compared to 9.9% in H2 2015. In general, industrial metal prices remain below marginal cost and are in supply deficit which is likely to be exacerbated by continued aggressive capital expenditure cuts by miners.

In currencies, we saw investors preferring the EUR against GBP, after a raft of weak economic releases from the UK, inflows into the currency pair EUR/GBP rose by US$6.3mn. Inflows into USD suggests investors have mixed views on the direction of the trajectory of the US Federal Reserve (FED) policy, with inflows into long and short USD pairs both totalling US$2.1mn, since the July FED meeting.

In equities there has been continued appetite gold miners with inflows of US$6.8mn for the week. Given the recent stellar performance we are cautious on how much the recent gold rally will expand margins versus the longer-term impact on earnings from aggressive capital expenditure cuts. By our measures we see the recent rise in gold miner prices reflecting US$1550/oz. for the gold price, well above our fair value estimates.

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