Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended August 3, 2011. The spill over from last week’s debt ceiling negotiations combined with the downturn in global equities markets caused investors to pull $75.5 billion from U.S. Mutual Funds and ETFs for the week. Although $65.8 billion in outflows was attributed to Money Market funds, all other asset types experienced net redemptions for the week.

Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended July 6, 2011. Investors were able to look past growing fiscal concerns for both Greece and the U.S. as equity markets ended the holiday period on a positive note. For the week, investors were net buyers as the conventional mutual fund business posted inflows of roughly $3.0 billion.

Jeff Tjornehoj recaps the events and crunches the numbers behind the flow of funds into and out of the conventional mutual funds industry. Top flows for ETFs are also highlighted.

Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended June 15, 2011. Growing concerns of a Greek default pushed the Dow below the 12,000 point mark for the first time since mid-March. This signal helped convince investors to pull $2.0 billion out of equity mutual funds with domestic funds (-$2.4 billion) accounting for the vast majority of redemptions. Taxable bond funds continue to draw assets as the group posted its twenty-sixth consecutive week of inflows with $1.8 billion. Of that, that majority of new money went into Corporate Investment-Grade funds (+$1.3 billion) as investors sought out quality. In step with equity funds, Corporate High Yield funds experienced net outflows of $1.3 billion, their largest weekly outflow since May 2010. Following their first week of inflows over the last 30 periods Municipal debt funds once again fell into the red posting outflows of $172 million — a bit surprising as the group posted their eleventh straight week of positive returns. Money Market funds continued their weekly seesaw as the group pushed out $29.7 billion for the week.

Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended April 27, 2011. Overall the conventional U.S. mutual fund business experienced inflows of $16.7 billion. Investors confidence in equity mutual funds slowed as the group posted weekly inflows of only $547 million. Interest in Taxable Bond funds remained strong as they added $2.3 billion to their accounts. Money Market funds bounced back from last week's outflows, adding back roughly $14.4 billion in assets.

Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended March 9, 2011. Overall the conventional U.S. mutual fund business experienced inflows of $5.2 billion for the week as taxable bonds posted their largest weekly gains since 10/14/2009.

Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended November 23, 2010.