Largest bond inflows in 7 months ($12bn), largest equity inflows in 7 weeks ($13bn)
>>> Asset Class Flows
- Bonds: largest inflows in 7 months ($11.5bn)
- Equities: largest inflows in 7 weeks ($12.7bn) ($15.5bn ETF inflows vs $2.8bn mutual fund outflows)
- Precious metals: $0.6bn inflows (only second week of inflows in almost 3 months)
- Money-markets: $16.4bn outflows
>>> Equity Flows
- EM: largest inflows since Oct’16 ($1.4bn)
- US: $7.8bn inflows (largest in 7 weeks)
- Japan: $0.6bn inflows (inflows in 5 of past 6 weeks)
- Europe: $0.7bn inflows
- By sector: largest financials inflows in 11 weeks ($1.4bn); inflows to materials in 12 of past 13 weeks ($0.6bn); inflows to energy in 8 of past 9 weeks ($0.4bn)
>>> Fixed Income Flows
- Inflows to HY bond funds in 9 of past 10 weeks ($2.2bn)
- Inflows to EM debt funds in 4 of past 5 weeks ($1.7bn)
- 6 straight weeks of IG bond inflows ($5.3bn – largest in almost 6 months)
- 12 straight weeks of inflows to bank loan funds (big $2.4bn)
- 8 straight weeks of inflows to TIPS funds ($0.2bn) $0.7bn outflows from govt/tsy funds