How did the great players of the global stock market to Tsunami Trump react? To answer that question, just observe how the coverage funds and ETFs behaved.
Neither Lerdos nor lazy, Both the coverage fund managers (“Hedge Fund”) and those linked to ETF funds did not wait to digest the probable impact of the tariff tsunami launched by Donald Trump and liquidated positions for rent variableaccording to Reuters data, for more than US $ 40,000 million. Funds Society analysts (FS) indicate that From the tsunami launched last April 2, the companies that quote on the S&P500 registered losses greater than the US $ 4 billion in stock value. They also realize that the leverage ETFs had an additional US $ 23,000 million last Monday to sell and rebalance their position, mainly of technological actions.
In this framework, the US investment bank Goldman Sachs (GS) informed its customers that the “Hedge Funds” of Variable Income from all over the world experienced a day after the fateful April 2 The greatest net sale in almost 15 yearsat the same time that the same variables showed their greatest bearish tendency since 2011. Although the bank did not report the net amount of dollars, he said that portfolio managers mainly decreased their positions in shares, as well as in funds quoted in the stock exchange (ETF) of credit and variable income last Thursday, although they also closed long positions after the Trump announcement of new tariff recession.
According to FS, the manager’s reports indicate that American actions led the sales of the “Hedge Funds”, together with financial actions selling to the fastest rate since 2016. In addition, GS warned that the real estate sector, basic goods and public services, which traditionally exceed recessive environments, were the only ones in which investors made net purchases. The bank also argued that the levels of leverage in the “Hedge Funds” sector remain close to their maximum in a year.
A dimension of the output of the ETFs funds
To dimension the effects of capital exit on funds such as ETFs, the latest FACTSET data indicate that fund entries in ETFs quoted in the United States totaled US $ 88.3 billion last March, which represented a 21% decrease compared to February. The March data that FACTSET already showed remarkable trends that advanced the fears of investorsfor example, in fixed income ETFs: the US $ 101,000 million that flowed towards fixed -income vehicles in the first quarter of the year represented 33% of the entry flows of all ETFs, 24% more than in the previous quarter. While, among the flows to this kind of assets, 46% went to US ETFS “Investment Grade” a ultra -top term. As FS collects, Factset explains that the funds at an ultra -organ for a term investor with maturities of one year or less, ideal for investors with brief investment horizons; And these shorter investments usually have a lower risk of interest rates compared to their counterparts in the medium or long term, which in turn can generate potential yields during market falls. Besides, So far in April it seems that the market operation figures could mark new exits, due to the increase in uncertainty and financial volatility.
It is worth remembering that, according to the latest data published by ETFGI, the assets invested in actively managed ETFs reached the US $ 1,26 billion at the beginning of last March, exceeding the previous record of US $ 1,23 billion of January 2025. In addition, ticket flows were recorded worth US $ 51,720 million in last February, being the 59th consecutive month They record net entries. This places the interannual net tickets of US $ 103,690 million, which are the largest registered to date.
On the depth of the market, the ETFGI report indicates that, at the end of February, there were 3,395 active management ETFs listed globally, with 4,354 quotes, assets for a total of US $ 1.26 billion, from 543 suppliers in 40 stock exchanges from 32 countries.
Source: Ambito
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