A midwestern fund firm led the mid-size pack yet again.
| Mary Ellen Bolger Stanek Robert W. Baird & Co. Managing Director, Director of Asset Management | |
This article draws from
Morningstar Direct data on May 2019 open-end mutual fund and ETF flows, excluding money-market funds and funds of funds. More specifically, this article focuses on the 78 firms with between $10 billion and $100 billion each in fund AUM. Only 23 of those firms gained net inflows in May.
Baird held the pole position for a third month in a row, with estimated net May inflows of $1.33 billion, down from $1.898 billion in
April. Other big May winners included:
Goldman Sachs, $1.128 billion (up from $108 million);
Morgan Stanley, $956 million (up from $440 million);
DoubleLine, $811 million (down from $857 million); and
TCW (including MetWest), $468 million (up from $133 million in net outflows).
Proportionately,
Rafferty's Direxion led the mid-size pack, with estimated net May inflows equivalent to 3.59 percent of its AUM, up from 0.73 percent in net April outflows. Other big May winners included:
Akre, 2.2 percent (up from 1.95 percent);
Mirae (including Global X), 2.1 percent (down from 3.02 percent); Morgan Stanley, 2 percent (up from 0.92 percent); and Baird, 1.99 percent (down from 3.44 percent).
On the flip side, May was a rough month for
AQR, which suffered an estimated $797 million in net outflows, more than any other mid-size fund firm but down from 1.138 billion in April. Other big May sufferers included:
Harris' Oakmark, $768 million (down from $2.453 billion);
Ivy, $647 million (down from $742 million);
DWS, $631 million (up from $310 million); and
First Eagle, $513 million (down from $586 million).
Proportionately,
Gamco led the mid-size outflows pack last month, suffering estimated net May outflows equivalent to 4.44 percent of its AUM, up from 1.09 percent in April. Other big May sufferers included: AQR, 3.42 percent (down from 4.56 percent);
William Blair, 2.25 percent (up from 1.98 percent);
AIG, 1.71 percent (up from 1.69 percent); and
Matthews Asia, 1.4 percent (up from 0.46 percent).
As a group, the 78 mid-size fund firms suffered an estimated $4.297 billion in combined net outflows, equivalent to about 0.15 percent of their combined (and accounting for 233.15 percent of net industry outflows)! Mid-size outflows fell from $10.608 billion in April.
Across the whole industry (M* tracks flows from 778 firms), long-term mutual funds and ETFs suffered a combined $1.843 billion in estimated net outflows in May, equivalent to 0.01 percent of industry AUM. That's down from $51.004 billion in net April inflows. Passive funds brought in $96 million in net May inflows, while active funds suffered $1.939 billion in net outflows. 
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