Industry inflows plunged sixty-two-fold this week, thanks to inflows drops in equity funds and taxable bond funds and outflows from money funds, according to the latest data from the Lipper team at Refinitiv.

Jack Fischer Refinitiv Lipper Senior Research Analyst

In the U.S. Weekly FundFlowsInsight report for the week ending November 3 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $991 million net flowed into mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's third week of net inflows in a row, down from $61.9 billion in net inflows last week.

Money market funds suffered $5 billion in net outflows this week, their fourth week of outflows in the past five weeks and down from $42.5 billion in net inflows last week. Taxable bond funds brought in $3.2 billion in net inflow this week, down from $4.2 billion. Equity funds brought in $2.1 billion in net inflows, down from $15.1 billion. And tax-exempt bond funds brought in $991 million in net inflows, up from $397 million.

Equity ETFs brought in $8 billion in net inflows this week, their fifth week in a row of net inflows, down from $19.5 billion last week. Conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered another $5.9 billion in net outflows this week; it was their 18th week of outflows in 19 weeks, up from $4.4 billion.

Within conventional equity funds, domestic equity funds sufferered $5.7 billion in net outflows this week, their 19th week in a row of net outflows, up from $4.2 billion last week. And conventional non-domestic equity funds suffered 4146 million in net outflows this week, their second week in a row of net outflows, down from $178 million.

On the fixed income side, fixed income ETFs brought in $697 million in net inflows this week, their fourth week in a row of net inflows. Conventional fixed income funds brought in $2.6 billion in net inflows this week, also their fourth week in a row of net inflows. 

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