Refinitiv Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) suffered net negative flows of $15.4 billion for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, October 28. This week’s results marked the fifteenth straight overall net outflows for funds. As has been the recent trend, equity funds (-$11.0 billion) and money market funds (-$6.3 billion) were responsible for all of the net outflows while taxable bond funds (+$1.4 billion) and municipal bond funds (+$582 million) both took in net new money. Market Overview The equity indices took a nosedive during the fund-flows trading week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average,

Refinitiv Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) experienced net outflows of $4.7 billion for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, October 14. This week’s results marked the tenth straight overall net negative result for funds. Money market funds (-$18.9 billion) were responsible for all of this week’s net outflows, while taxable bond funds (+$11.2 billion), equity funds (+$2.4 billion), and municipal bond funds (+$614 million) all took in net new money. Pat Keon, CFA, speaks to the highlights in this week’s video.    

Funds in Refinitiv Lipper’s municipal debt peer groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) had net positive flows of $614 million for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, October 14. This is the continuation of a long-term trend for tax-exempt bond funds as they’ve now taken in net new money in 22 of the last 23 weeks. This has resulted in the group growing their coffers by $43.5 billion since the end of the first quarter. As could be expected (and is illustrated in the chart below), the overall net inflows were dominated by funds in the national municipal groups (+$41.2

Refinitiv Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) experienced net outflows of $4.7 billion for the fund-flows trading week ended Wednesday, October 14. This week’s results marked the tenth straight overall net negative result for funds. Money market funds (-$18.9 billion) were responsible for all of this week’s net outflows, while taxable bond funds (+$11.2 billion), equity funds (+$2.4 billion), and municipal bond funds (+$614 million) all took in net new money. Market Overview The equity indices all recorded gains for the third consecutive fund-flows trading week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, NASDAQ Composite Index, and