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Thursday, February 12, 2026 U.S. Stock Funds and Commodities Push Industry Inflows Up, Despite an FI Dip Rising U.S. stock fund and commodity fund flows push industry inflows up a bit last week, despite sizable slowdowns into fixed income and world equity funds, according to the latest data from the folks at a mutual fund industry trade group. Yesterday (Wednesday, February 11), the Investment Company Institute (ICI) team reported that an estimated $39.783 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended February 4, 2026. (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.) That's up by $2.625 billion week-over-week from the week ended on January 28* and brings the industry's inflows streak to four weeks and counting. Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $3.063 billion in net outflows in the week ended February 4, according to the ICI folks, up by $321 million W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $42.846 billion in net inflows last week, up by $2.946 billion W/W. Fixed income still led the way, for a third week in a row. Per ICI's data, bond funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $22.726 billion in net inflows for the week ended February 4 (down by $6.609 billion W/W). $19.022 billion of that (down by $6.381 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $3.704 billion (down by $228 million W/W) flowed into municipal bond funds and muni ETFs. Per ICI's data, equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $14.441 billion in net inflows in the week ended February 4 (up by $8.064 billion W/W), their fourth week running of net inflows. Domestic equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $6.093 billion in net inflows (up by $14.689 billion W/W), while world equity ETFs and funds brought in $8.349 billion in net inflows (down by $6.624 billion W/W). Commodity funds (well, ETFs) brought in an estimated $3.573 billion in net inflows for the week ended February 4. It was fourth week of inflows in a row, up by $1.412 billion W/W. On the flip side, hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $957 million in net outflows in the week ended February 4. That's up by $242 million W/W. *Editor's Note: 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. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=72094 Copyright 2026, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |