Money market outflows skyrocketed this week, but the flows picture improved for long-term funds, according to the latest data from the Lipper team at Refinitiv.

Jack Fischer Refinitiv Lipper Senior Research Analyst

In the U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report for the week ending May 18, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $30.9 billion net flowed out of mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's third week of outflows in a row, up from $23.5 billion last week. Long-term funds and ETFs suffered $10.3 billion in net outflows this week, down from $17.7 billion.

Money market funds suffered $20.6 billion in net outflows this week, up from $5.8 billion last week. Taxable bond funds suffered $4.4 billion in net outflows this week (down from $6.7 billion), equity funds suffered $3.2 billion in net outflows (down from $8.6 billion), and tax-exempt bond funds suffered $2.7 billion in net outflows (up from $2.4 billion).

Equity ETFs brought in $5.4 billion in net inflows this week, their third week of inflows in a row, up from $647 million last week. The biggest equity ETF winner this week was BlackRock's iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV), with $4.8 billion in net inflows.

Conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $8.6 billion in net outflows this week, their 15th week of outflows in a row, down from $9.2 billion last week. Conventional domestic equity funds suffered $4.5 billion in net outflows this week, also their 15th week of outflows in a row, down from $6.4 billion. And conventional non-domestic equity funds suffered $4.1 billion in net outflows, their sixth week of outflows in a row, up from $2.8 billion.

On the fixed income side, taxable fixed income ETFs brought in $6 billion in net inflows this week, their fifth week of inflows in a row, up from $3.2 billion last week. (The biggest taxable fixed income ETF winner this week was the iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF, SHV, with $2 billion in inflows.) Yet conventional taxable bond funds suffered $10.4 billion in net outflows this week, their 17th week of outflows in a row, up from $9.9 billion.

Municipal bond ETFs brought in $646 million in net inflows this week, down from $1.6 billion last week. (The biggest muni bond ETF winner this week was the iShares National Muni Bond ETF, MUB, with $679 million in inflows.) Yet conventional muni bond funds suffered $3.4 billion in net outflows this week, their 19th week of outflows in a row, down from $4.1 billion last week. 

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