Korea Investment Management's ACE ETF Ranks First in Market Share Growth for 2025

ETF Market Share Up 0.97 Percentage Points in 2025
Consistent Growth Over Three Years: Net Assets Surge from 3 Trillion to 25 Trillion Won
Both New and Existing Products Maintain Steady Investor Interest

Korea Investment Management announced on January 5 that its ACE Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) achieved the highest increase in market share among the 28 ETF providers over the past year. The company ranked first in market share growth for two consecutive years, in both 2024 and 2025.

According to the Korea Financial Investment Association, as of the end of last year, Korea Investment Management's ETF market share stood at 8.53%. This represents an increase of 0.97 percentage points compared to the end of 2024. This was the largest growth among domestic ETF providers. While the average market share of the top 10 ETF companies decreased by 0.04 percentage points during the same period, the growth of ACE ETF stands out even more.

ACE ETF has shown steady growth over the past three years. Its net asset value, which was only 3.0527 trillion won at the end of 2022, surged to 25.3505 trillion won by the end of 2025, with its market share more than doubling from 3.89% to 8.53%.

The company attributed this growth to the supply of differentiated products. Including 18 new products launched in 2025, Korea Investment Management has introduced 54 new products to the market over the past three years. The ACE US AI Tech Core Industry Active ETF, listed at the end of October last year, recorded a net individual purchase of 28.1 billion won on its first day of listing. Among the 173 ETFs newly listed over the past year, only three-including the ACE US AI Tech Core Industry Active ETF-saw net individual purchases of over 25 billion won on their first day.

Other products listed over the past three years, such as the ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus ETF and the ACE Tesla Value Chain Active ETF, also continued to attract investor interest. Last year, net individual purchases for the ACE US Big Tech TOP7 Plus ETF and the ACE Tesla Value Chain Active ETF reached 184 billion won and 130.2 billion won, respectively, ranking fourth and fifth among ACE ETFs.

Existing lineup products also contributed to the growth. The ACE KRX Gold Spot ETF, the first gold spot ETF listed in Korea in 2021, recorded a net individual purchase of 1.1972 trillion won in 2025 alone, ranking eighth among 1,058 listed ETFs in Korea for annual net individual purchases.

In addition to the ACE KRX Gold Spot ETF, the ACE US S&P500 ETF (576 billion won) and the ACE US Nasdaq 100 ETF (451.8 billion won) also remained popular choices among individual investors. As a result, 3.3985 trillion won-about 10% of the total net individual purchases in the domestic ETF market in 2025-flowed into ACE ETFs.

Nam Yongsoo, Head of ETF Management at Korea Investment Management, said, "In 2025, we introduced not only big tech products with high future growth potential, but also new dividend and bond-type products suitable for investment in pension accounts. For existing listed products, we have made improvements such as increasing the equity ratio or changing the underlying index calculation method to better support investors." He added, "ACE ETF will continue to do its best in 2026 to provide investors with helpful products and investment information."

All ACE ETFs are performance-based products, and investors should be aware that there is a risk of principal loss depending on investment results.