Industry inflows grew by 77 percent last week as rising stock fund flows broke bond funds' nine-week winning steak, according to the latest data from the folks at a mutual fund industry trade group. Flows into U.S. equity funds and commodity funds improved, while flows worsened for international stock funds, for taxable and municipal bond funds, and for hybrid funds.

Yesterday, the Invesmtent Company Institute (ICI) team reported that an estimated $25.374 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended March 25, 2026*. That's That's up by $11.076 billion week-over-week from the week ended on March 18** but still extends the industry's inflows streak to 11 consecutive weeks.

Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $15.14 billion in net outflows in the week ended March 25, up by $4.381 billion W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $40.513 billion in net inflows last week, up by $15.456 billion W/W.

Stock funds took the lead last week, netting inflows for a third week in a row, as $22.476 billion net flowed in for the week ended March 25 (up by $19.538 billion W/W). Domestic equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $23.761 billion in net inflows last week (up by $30.217 bilion W/W), while world equity ETFs and funds suffered $1.24 billion in net outflows (a $10.679-billion net flows drop W/W).

Per ICI's data, fixed income funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $7.866 billion in net inflows for the week ended March 25 (down by $8.77 billion W/W). $8.239 billion (down by $5.334 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $373 million (a $3.436-billion net flows drop W/W) flowed out of muni bond funds and ETFs.

On the flip side, the ICI team reports that commodity funds (well, ETFs) suffered an estimated $2.451 billion in net outflows for the week ended March 25. That's down by $1.168 billion W/W.

Hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $2.518 billion in net outflows for the week ended March 25. That's up by $861 million W/W.

*Money-market funds and funds of funds, as well as non-'40 Act asset management products like collective trusts and separate accounts, are not included.

**Editor's Note: The ICI folks note that they also regularly revise the past weeks' flows data, "because of adjustments, reclassifications, and changes in the number of funds reporting." Thus, the week-to-week flows changes may not quite line up perfectly with the numbers in MFWire's coverage of prior weeks' flows. 

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