Abu Dhabi, UAE – The Abu Dhabi Securities Market is ranked as the most active and liquid ETF in the Middle East. After the number of ETFs listed on the market increased to 24 funds.
Abu Dhabi Securities Market data for the first 5 months of 2026 shows that the total market value of ETFs rose to AED 27.5 billion by the end of May 2026. This enhances the position of the Abu Dhabi Securities Market as the leading regional center for innovative and diversified investment products. The market witnessed the listing of the first traded investment fund in the region in 2010.
Regarding ETF trading, Abu Dhabi Securities Market data indicates that the value of these funds’ trading increased by 156% annually during the first five months of 2026, reaching AED 184 million. While the number of executed trades increased by 156% to exceed 15,000 trades, trading volume increased by 152% to exceed 33 million units.
expanding investment opportunities
ETFs are of particular importance in expanding investment opportunities in the economies of rapidly growing countries, particularly the Gulf Cooperation Council. This is achieved by providing a unified, diverse, and transparent investment tool that enables individual and institutional investors to access the most prominent listed companies in various countries and the most important investment opportunities in the world. In addition to diversifying the portfolio into most major asset classes and sectors. It provides the investor with a wide investment scope that eliminates the need to shape his portfolio sectors step by step.
Experts define an index-traded fund (Exchange-Traded Fund), known as (ETF), as a basket of investments listed and traded on the stock exchange. Such as stocks, commodities and bonds. ETFs provide greater diversity to investment portfolios thanks to their multiple assets.
These funds also follow the index’s up and down movement, but they tend to trade close to their net asset value over the course of a trading session.
Experts confirm that ETFs allow investors to efficiently and inexpensively expose themselves to shares of their underlying assets without direct exposure to those assets.
The momentum of listings continues
The momentum of ETF listings at Abu Dhabi Securities continues. A few days ago, the Gulf Chimera Solactive ETF Shariah for Dividends Traded was listed, in the fourth listing the market has witnessed since the beginning of the year.
The fund, developed by Abu Dhabi-based Lunet Global Investment Management, is the first of its kind to track the performance of shares of Sharia-compliant companies. It provides regular dividends in GCC countries, with a focus on companies with strong performance.
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have become one of the most prominent investment instruments witnessing rapid growth in global financial markets. Thanks to its flexibility and ease of trading, in addition to its ability to give investors broad opportunities to diversify their investment portfolios at lower costs compared to many traditional investment instruments.
These funds are characterized by combining the characteristics of stocks and mutual funds, as they are traded on stock exchanges during trading hours just like stocks. While at the same time allowing investment in a diversified basket of assets including stocks, bonds, commodities or indices.
increasingly important
ETFs are gaining increasing importance. In light of the transformations taking place in financial markets and the growing interest of individual and institutional investors in structured and risk-managed investing. The most prominent advantages of ETFs are risk diversification, as they give the investor exposure to a large number of assets through a single investment. Which reduces the impact of fluctuations in the performance of a single company or asset on the total investment portfolio.
