Hantoo Asset Management Achieves Most Top 10 Positions in ACE ETF First Half Returns

Korea Investment Trust Management announced on the 1st that its listed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have shown excellent performance as of the first half of this year.

Korea Investment Trust Management's ACE ETFs have three products ranked among the top 10 (hereinafter TOP10) in terms of returns for ETFs listed domestically in the first half of the year. Korea Investment Trust Management is the only company to have more than three products included in the TOP10.

Even excluding leveraged products, Korea Investment Trust Management's performance stands out. Four of the TOP10 are ACE ETFs. Apart from Korea Investment Trust Management, no other asset management company has more than three products in the TOP10.

The top-performing products including leveraged ETFs are ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus Leverage (Synthetic) ETF (110.35%), ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF (59.03%), and ACE AI Semiconductor Focus ETF (58.51%). Excluding leveraged products, ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus ETF (48.18%) and ACE Nuclear Theme Deep Search ETF (47.97%) enter the TOP10.

Performance over the past year is also excellent. The ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF has recorded a return of 76.57% during this period, and the ACE Nuclear Theme Deep Search ETF also shows a solid performance with 52.13%. The other three products, including the ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus Leverage (Synthetic) ETF, have been excluded from the one-year return calculation as they have been listed for less than one year.

The performance recorded by ACE ETFs is leading to capital inflows. As of the first half of the year, the cumulative net purchase amount by individual investors recorded by Korea Investment Trust Management is 1.6033 trillion KRW, ranking third among 26 ETF management companies. Capital inflows have been centered around ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF (134 billion KRW), ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus ETF (155.5 billion KRW), and ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus Leverage (Synthetic) ETF (31.1 billion KRW), which recorded top returns in the first half.

Nam Yong-su, head of the ETF Management Division at Korea Investment Trust Management, explained, "Many of the ACE ETFs that entered the TOP10 in returns for the first half of the year are products investing in tech industries such as artificial intelligence (AI)." He added, "This is the result of presenting high-quality tech industry investment ETFs through collaboration and research among departments."

He continued, "Currently, various ETFs investing in the tech industry are listed in the market, but their performance varies greatly," and added, "The five ACE ETFs that have proven their performance are promising products for medium- to long-term investment in the future, and we recommend steadily accumulating them through pensions and Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)."