For the fourth week in a row, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $27.3 billion for Lipper’s fund-flows week ended September 25, 2019. Fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$37.8 billion), municipal bond funds (+$1.6 billion), and taxable fixed income funds (+$427 million). However, they were net redeemers of equity funds (-$12.6 billion). Market Wrap-Up For the fund-flows week ended September 25, 2019, stocks generally suffered negative returns. Even after the Federal Open Market Committee voted to cut its prime lending rate by 25 basis points last

For the sixth week in a row equity ETFs witnessed net inflows, taking in a little more than $5.0 billion for the flows week.

Markets were pummeled at the beginning of Lipper’s fund-flows week ended Wednesday, August 16, 2017, amid continued saber rattling between the U.S. and North Korea as North Korea laid out plans to launch a missile strike on U.S. military bases in Guam. But after the war rhetoric cooled somewhat, markets bounced back, approaching record levels once again. However, nagging concerns persist for fund investors. For the fourth consecutive week investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $9.0 billion. However, the headline numbers were slightly misleading; while investors padded the coffers of money

With the runoff of the French presidential election completed during the fund-flows week ended May 10, 2017, investors crossed off another uncertainty as centrist Emmanuel Macron’s win on Sunday helped ease some ongoing concerns of further isolationism among European Union members, sending the CBOE volatility index (VIX) to its lowest reading (9.77) since 1993. However, lofty equity valuations, the firing of FBI director James Comey, and the upcoming OPEC meeting left markets range bound. For the flows week the U.S. broad-based indices were mixed, with the NASDAQ Price Only Index (rising 2.49%) witnessing the largest gain of the group, and

For the tenth consecutive week equity ETFs witnessed net inflows, taking in just a little under $18.0 billion for the flows week.

For the fund flows week ended November 11 the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 165 points to settle at 17,702. Equity mutual fund investors made net redemptions of $1.7 billion for the week (of which $765 million was from large-cap funds), while equity exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw net inflows of $643 million; investors backed out of SPDR S&P 500 (SPY, -$1.5 billion) and made modest contributions to iShares Russell 2000 (IWM, +$1.6 billion) and iShares Core MSCI EAFE (EFA, +$1.3 billion). A sour market in bonds (a decline of 0.64% for the week) may have led bond mutual fund