The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its June Consumer Price Index report on Wednesday, July 13. In the report, it indicated that CPI rose 1.3% for the month and on a seasonally adjusted basis it rose 9.1% year over year, weighing on investors’ resolve. Earlier in Lipper’s fund-flows week, some pundits had hoped that with the recent decline in front-month crude oil prices the Fed would take a less aggressive path to its interest-rate hike plans and monetary policy normalization. However, after the June CPI report was released, the CME FedWatch Tool showed a greater than 80% probability that

Investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the first week in the last 10 as they withdrew $14.0 billion out of the market during Refinitiv Lipper’s U.S. fund-flows week ended April 14, 2021. Money market funds (-$27.8 billion) were the sole driver of redemptions. Taxable bond (+$9.1 billion), tax-exempt bond (+2.3 billion), and equity (+$760 million) funds all attracted net inflows over the trailing five trading days. The past fund-flows week marks the first time in nearly six months where we have seen back-to-back weeks of outflows from money market funds. The

For the third week in a row, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting $65.1 billion for Lipper’s fund-flows week ended March 18, 2020. However, the headline number is totally misleading. Fund investors were net purchasers of money market funds (+$148.0 billion, their largest weekly net inflow on record going back to 1992), but were net redeemers of taxable fixed income funds (-$55.9 billion, a weekly record), equity funds (-$14.8 billion), and municipal bond funds (-$12.2 billion, a weekly record) this week. Market Wrap-Up For the fund-flows week ended March 18,

Lipper’s fund asset groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in net-positive flows of almost $16.0 billion for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, February 21. All the fund macro-groups experienced positive net flows, led by money market funds (+$12.3 billion), followed by taxable bond funds (+$2.2 billion), equity funds (+$1.1 billion), and municipal bond funds (+$347 million). Pat Keon, Thomson Reuters Lipper Senior Research Analyst, speaks to the highlights in this week’s video.  

Lipper’s fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) had negative flows of almost $20.8 billion for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, June 21. This number represented the largest one-week net outflows of 2017, outdistancing the $19.0 billion for the fund-flows week ended January 18. Three of the four fund macro-groups saw net money leave their coffers, paced by the money market funds group (-$20.7 billion). Equity funds (-$2.2 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$891 million) also contributed to the total net outflows, while taxable bond funds took in $3.0 billion of net new money. It was the fourteenth straight

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

Investors padded the coffers of taxable bond funds (+$3.5 billion) and municipal bond funds (+$0.6 billion) while being net redeemers of money market funds (-$32.0 billion) and equity funds (-$4.5 billion).

Lipper’s fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and exchange-traded funds [ETFs]) experienced positive flows of almost $8.8 billion for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, March 30. The aggregate net inflows were propped up by money market funds, which had inflows of $12.1 billion for the week. Municipal bond funds (+$784 million) also contributed to the overall net inflows, while equity funds (-$2.6 billion) and taxable bond funds (-$1.5 billion) saw money leave their coffers. It was another good week for the broad-based equity indices; the S&P 500 Index (+1.3%) and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (+1.2%) each posted their seventh