Overall inflows into stock funds rose by 90 percent this week, while bond fund outflows fell by 59 percent, according to the latest data from LSEG's Refinitiv Lipper team.

Jack Fischer Refinitiv Lipper Senior Research Analyst

In the U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight report for the week ending October 26, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $7.1 billion net flowed into mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's first week of inflows in five weeks, up from $6.8 billion in net outflows last week. Long-term (i.e. non-money market) funds and ETFs brought in $5.7 billion in net inflows this week, up from $800 million in net outflows.

Equity funds brought in $7.8 billion in net inflows this week, up from $4.1 billion last week. And money market funds brought in $1.4 billion in net inflows this week, up from $5.7 billion in net outflows.

On the flip side, tax-exempt bond funds suffered $1.8 billion in net outflows this week, down from $2.6 billion. And taxable bond funds suffered $315 million in net outflows this week, down from $2.6 billion.

Equity ETFs brought in $15.8 billion in net inflows this week. It was their fourth week of inflows in a row and their biggest weekly inflows since March, up from $11.3 billion last week.

This week's biggest equity ETF winner, for the fourth week in a row, was SSGA's SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), with $3.4 billion in net inflows (down from $5.5 billion last week).

Conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $8 billion in net outflows this week. It was their 38th week of outflows in a row, up from $7.2 billion last week.

Fixed income ETFs brought in $7 billion in net inflows this week. It was their fourth week of inflows in a row.

This week's biggest taxable fixed income ETF winner was BlackRock's iShares: MBS ETF (MBB), with $1.9 billion in net inflows.

Municipal bond ETFs brought in $446 million in net inflows this week. It was their third week of inflows in four weeks, up from $381 million in net outflows last week.

Conventional taxable fixed income funds suffered $7.4 billion in net outflows this week. It was their tenth week of outflows in a row, down from $8.1 billion last week.

Conventional muni bond funds suffered $2.2 billion in net outflows. It was also their 10th week of outflows in a row, roughly level with last week. Fischer notes that conventional muni bonds have still had only five weeks of net inflows so far in 2022. 

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