1-Year Listed 'No.1 ACE ETF', Top Performer Among Semiconductor ETFs

Korea Investment Trust Management announced on the 15th that the ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF, which marked its 1-year anniversary since launch, recorded a one-year return of approximately 52%.

The ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF is a product first introduced by Korea Investment Trust Management last year when it rebranded its exchange-traded fund (ETF) lineup as 'ACE.' It is characterized by concentrated investment in leading companies in the semiconductor industry, achieving a one-year return of 52.01% since its listing. This is the highest among 27 semiconductor ETFs. The recent 6-month return also stood at 23.47%.

As of the previous day, the top holdings of the ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF include TSMC (20.50%), ASML (20.42%), Nvidia (20.04%), and Samsung Electronics (18.16%). This clearly reflects the nature of the product, which selects and invests in representative companies from the four major semiconductor sectors: memory, non-memory, semiconductor equipment, and foundry. It also includes other top market capitalization stocks in the semiconductor industry such as Broadcom (3.48%), AMD (3.45%), Qualcomm (3.42%), Applied Materials (3.29%), Intel (3.29%), and Texas Instruments (2.83%).

There is also strong interest from individual investors. From the listing date until the end of last year, the cumulative net purchase amount by individuals over six weeks was 5.2 billion KRW, and more than 30 billion KRW of individual funds have flowed in this year. This is the largest amount among six semiconductor ETFs listed around the same time as the ACE Global Semiconductor TOP4 Plus SOLACTIVE ETF and significantly exceeds the average individual net purchase amount of all semiconductor ETFs (-1.6 billion KRW).

Nam Yong-su, Head of ETF Management at Korea Investment Trust Management, said, "With ongoing technological innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI), the importance of the semiconductor industry is bound to increase, and accordingly, growth in key sectors within the semiconductor industry will continue. We hope investors can benefit from the growth of the semiconductor industry through this ETF, which focuses on companies with competitive advantages in each sector."

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