Stock funds continued their 14-week streak this week as industry outflows doubled, 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 for the week ending May 11, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $23.5 billion net flowed out of mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's second week of outflows in a row, up from $11.5 billion last week. Long-term funds and ETFs suffered $17.7 billion in net outflows this week, up from $12.5 billion.

Money market funds suffered $5.8 billion in net outflows this week, down from $966 million in net inflows last week. Equity funds suffered $8.6 billion in net outflows (up from $2.3 billion), taxable bond funds suffered $6.7 billion in net outflows (down from $7.5 billion), and tax-exempt bond funds suffered $2.4 billion in net outflows (down from $2.7 billion).

Equity ETFs brought in $647 million in net inflows this week, their second week of inflows in a row, down from $2.3 billion last week. The biggest equity ETF winner this week was SSGA's SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD), with $1.3 billion in net inflows.

Conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $9.2 billion in net outflows this week, their 14th week in a row of outflows, up from $4.6 billion last week. Conventional domestic equity funds suffered $6.4 billion in net outflows this week, also their 14th week of outflows in a row. And conventional non-domestic equity funds suffered $2.8 billion in net outflows, their fifth week of outflows in a row.

On the fixed income side, taxable fixed income ETFs brought in $3.2 billion in net inflows this week, their fourth week of inflows in a row. (The biggest taxable fixed income ETF winner was BlackRock's iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, i.e. HYG, which brought in $1.2 billion in net inflows.) Yet conventional taxable bond funds suffered $9.9 billion in net outflows, their 16th week of outflows in a row.

Municipal bond ETFs brought in $1.6 billion in net inflows this week, their second week of inflows in a row. Yet conventional muni bond funds suffered $4.1 billion in net outflows, their 18th week of outflows in a row. 

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