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Investors add to S&P 500 and gold ETFs via SPDR lineup
State Street SPDR’s SPYM pulled in $57 billion year to date, while GLD and GLDM gained 13.6% over the past four weeks.
State Street’s SPDR ETF flows in 2026 point to a two sided positioning move, with investors adding exposure to U.S. large caps while also increasing gold hedges, ETF Trends reports.
The outlet highlights that the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM) led SPDR inflows, drawing $57 billion year to date, helped by SPYM’s 0.02% expense ratio. By comparison, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) has pulled in about $11 billion in new inflows this year, and in a single week ending Aug. 21, 2026, it received $7.68 billion in net inflows as traders bought dips.
Gold ETF flows have strengthened in parallel, with GLD and GLDM showing a 13.6% gain over the past four weeks. Gold rose to a more than three month high on Aug. 25 during Asian trading, then pared gains after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s Aug. 28 speech, when spot gold fell more than 3% to about $4,456 an ounce.
ETF Trends links gold’s August rally to fiscal concerns, geopolitical uncertainty, and renewed investor interest in gold backed exchange traded funds, while noting gold was around $3,400 an ounce a year ago.
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