MutualFundWire.com: Flows Invert, Plunging $65.7B

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Flows Invert, Plunging $65.7B

Net industry flows collapsed by $65.7B this week, inverting, 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 April 6, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $34.2 billion net flowed out of mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's first week of net outflows in three weeks, down from $31.5 billion in net inflows last week. Long-term (i.e. non-money market) funds and ETFs suffered $7.8 billion in net outflows this week, down week-over-week from $1.7 billion in net inflows.

Money market funds led the way once again, this time with $26.4 billion in net outflows this week, down W/W from $29.8 billion in net inflows. Taxable bonds suffered $4.3 billion in net outflows (up W/W from $117 million), tax-exempt bond funds suffered $3.3 billion in net outflows (their largest weekly outflows in two years, up W/W from $2 billion), and equity funds suffered $253 million in net outflows (down W/W from $3.9 billion in net inflows).

Equity ETFs brought in $2.6 billion in net inflows this week, their ninth week in a row of inflows, down W/W from $7.7 billion. (The biggest equity ETF winner this week was BlackRock's iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, which brought in $1.6 billion.) Yet conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $2.8 billion in net outflows this week, their ninth week in a row of outflows, down W/W from $3.9 billion.

On the fixed income side, ETFs suffered $2.5 billion in net outflows this week, their first week of outflows in seven weeks, down W/W from $3.9 billion in net inflows. (The biggest taxable fixed income ETF winner this week was SSGA's SPBR Blackstone Senior Loan ETF, which brought in $451 million.) And conventional fixed income funds suffered $1.8 billion in net outflows this week, their 11th week of outflows in a row, down W/W from $4 billion.

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