Even casual Fed watchers must by now have taken note of the Fed’s announcement that it planned to begin tapering its monthly bond purchases around mid-November. Now, here we are. So far, the equity markets seem to be taking the news in stride – maybe because the current slate of Fed officials have been more transparent and communicated better than some of their predecessors.  However, with headline inflation now topping 6%, the highest in 30 years, the U.S. economy may be running hotter than Fed officials anticipated. And inflation may be looking less transitory than they hoped. For example, recent

This week we are going to touch on the top three Lipper exchange traded fund classifications that attracted inflows over the past Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ending May 26, 2021 (for more weekly trends check out U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report) Lipper Multi-Cap Value ETFs (+$1.93 billion), Lipper Large-Cap Core ETFs (+$1.88 billion), and Lipper European Region ETFs (+$1.56 billion) ranked in the top three for weekly net inflows. Each of these Lipper ETF classifications have seen consistent inflows all month ranking first, fifth, and second, respectively, in terms of preliminary monthly inflows. Lipper Multi-Cap Value ETFs is also the