Published on
19 Aug 2011, by
Jeff Tjornehoj
Jeff Tjornehoj reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended August 17, 2011. Equity mutual fund investors were steadfast this week and actually added $1.7 billion to their accounts, busting a four-week string of outflows. After equity fund assets were pummeled over 11% the previous week, this week’s bounce-back of 6% calmed enough nerves to draw the more adventurous ones back into the race. Domestic funds saw their first week of inflows in the last five as $1.3 billion seeped in while non-domestic equity funds had a scant $400 million added when all was said and done. Taxable bond funds had $1.2 billion in outflows for their third week of outflows as investors pulled about $1.4 billion from their core fixed income holdings; High Yield funds had a slight outflow of $300 million after the HY market pulled back significantly the week before. Muni funds were cursed with a fourth week of outflows as a quarter-billion was drained away, which is an improvement over last week’s $600 million outflow. Money market funds took in a net $13.9 billion this week following last week’s $47.5 billion inflow. These funds have had $205 billion in outflows this year and could eclipse last year’s $441 billion.
