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Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - May 2, 2012

Published on 04 May 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended May 2, 2012. With generally negative economic news hitting the wire, it was quite surprising equity markets fared as well as they did. The tone was set in the U.S. with a lower than expected Q1 GDP result of 2.2%. That paired with the downgrade of Spanish debt and an increasing number of Eurozone countries falling into recession seemed to set the stage for redemptions in the fund space. Surprisingly, like the markets themselves, mutual funds—excluding money market products—kept investor’s interest as they reported net inflows of $2.9 billion for the week.

Lipper 2012 First Quarter Preliminary Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 10 Apr 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews preliminary mutual fund flow numbers for the first quarter 2012 in this WebEx replay. Despite a stellar first quarter of performance some investors were still wary about jumping back in the market. Overall, U.S. conventional mutual funds posted net outflows of $2.7 billion, dragged down heavily by large outflows from both U.S. Diversified Equity funds (-$11.2 billion) and Money Market offerings (-$84.1 billion). Exchange-traded products fared much better pulling in $52.4 billion for the same period. Investors continued to focus heavily on fixed income products as both mutual and ETF bond funds recorded net inflows of roughly $100 billion.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - March 21, 2012

Published on 23 Mar 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended March 21, 2012. Despite a strong Q1 rally, U.S. market indices began to show signs of slowing as the week came to a close. Although partially due to quarter-end window dressing, concerns stemming from higher domestic energy prices and economic data out of Europe and China were in the forefront of investor’s minds. Overall, the conventional mutual fund business experienced net outflows of $12.7 billion as corporate tax liabilities pushed institutions to pull roughly $17 billion out of money market funds. Equity funds(+$700 million) and Taxable Bond funds(+$3.3 billion) both attracted new assets while Municipal Debt funds ended the period flat with net inflows of only $44 million.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - February 15, 2012

Published on 17 Feb 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended February 15, 2012. Mixed movements in the market and a brief sign of weakness in Apple’s stock pushed investors to takes profits as equity mutual funds(-$279 million) experienced redemptions for the week ended February 15, 2012. This was the first period in the last six where the asset class found itself dipping into its coffers to pay investors. Overall, the conventional fund business experienced net inflows of $3.5 billion. Taxable bond funds (+$4.6 billion) helped overcome the equity outflows as investors continued to pour money into both corporate investment grade debt funds (+$1.4 billion) and high yield products (+$884 million). Investors also continued to look favorably on municipal offerings as the group posted their eleventh consecutive week of inflows at $1.0 billion. Money Market fund investors redeemed $1.8 billion for the week as they showed less favor for Treasury and government backed paper.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - January 18, 2012

Published on 20 Jan 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Rising optimism in U.S. equity markets continued to draw investors off the sidelines as mutual funds reported net outflows of $2.9 billion for the week. Once adjusted for the effects of money market activity (-$7.3 billion) the totals looked a bit more promising at inflows of $4.4 billion. Equity funds recorded inflows of roughly $800 million while taxable bond funds added $2.6 billion mostly between High Yield (+$796 million) and Investment Grade (+$640 million) products. Municipal bond funds continued to build momentum with roughly $1 billion in new assets—their second week at such a level.

Lipper Fourth Quarter 2011 Preliminary Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 11 Jan 2012, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews preliminary mutual fund flow numbers for the fourth quarter 2011 in this WebEx replay.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - November 9, 2011

Published on 11 Nov 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended November 9, 2011. Despite a modest rise in the markets over the first four days of the week, widening spreads on Italian debt helped push investors to the door on Wednesday. Continued uncertainty over the fate of the Eurozone was exacerbated as two of the troubled nations, Greece and Italy, looked to introduce new governments. Despite this news it looked as investors were still willing to allocate new cash to the fund industry. Overall, the conventional mutual fund business attracted net inflows of $20.8 billion, with equity funds reporting net outflows of $519 million. Taxable bond funds (+$3.6 billion) posted their 5th consecutive week of inflows as Corporate Investment Grade funds attracted the most attention with $1.3 billion in net new assets. Municipal bond funds continued to be attractive with net inflows of $733 million, their largest weekly inflows since September of 2010. Money market funds benefited from the volatile market adding some $17.0 billion to their coffers.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - October 26, 2011

Published on 28 Oct 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended October 26, 2011. With three consecutive weeks of positive market gains on the horizon and optimistic news out of the Eurozone, investors injected roughly $4.2 billion into mutual funds for the week ending October 26th 2011. The big news was on the fixed income side as High Yield Funds (+$3.6 billion) experienced their largest weekly net inflows since Lipper began tracking them in 1992. Tightening spreads and upward pressure in the equity markets helped push investors back into risk through the junk based products. Equity funds (+$3.0 billion) also reported net inflows for the week as a $3.7 billion push into ETFs helped overcome the negative sentiment on the traditional fund side—mutual funds reported net redemptions of $742 million for the week. Municipal bond funds posted their third consecutive week of inflows with $310 million as investors pulled a net $1.1 billion from money market funds.

Lipper 2011 Third Quarter Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 10 Oct 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews preliminary mutual fund flow numbers for the third quarter 2011 in this WebEx replay. In line with expectations after a disastrous quarter for fund performance, the conventional mutual fund business experienced preliminary quarterly outflows of $125.0 billion. Equity Funds as a whole accounted for roughly $82.9 billion of that as U.S. diversified products posted redemptions of over $70 billion alone. Taxable bond funds were not immune to the sell-off as inflows to the group were nearly flat--a meager $162 million. Investors moved away from higher yields as the previous quarter’s top flows attractor, Loan Participation funds, experienced outflows of $8.2 billion and High Current Yield products lost roughly $3.0 billion. Municipal bond funds offered a bit of a bright spot with quarterly inflows of $1.5 billion as flows for money market funds continued to be volatile with net quarterly redemptions of $43.8 billion.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - October 5, 2011

Published on 07 Oct 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended October 5, 2011. As the third quarter ended investors took tally of how bad things actually were. The S&P 500 ended the three-month span with negative returns of 14.33 percent, the worst quarter of performance since the financial crisis took hold in Q4 2008. Although the flows week ended on a positive note investors continued to move out of risk assets. For the week the conventional mutual fund business posted inflows of $3.6 billion with most of any positive asset numbers going to money market funds (+6.2 billion). Equity mutual funds posted their fourth consecutive week of outflows with $638 million in net sales. Taxable bond funds also could not avoid investor’s concerns as the group posted their largest week of outflows, at $1.8 billion, since August 17th of this year. Municipal Bond funds broke their four week winning streak as they posted net outflows of $153 million, possibly attributed to bailout concerns circulating over the Franco-Belgium bank Dexia.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - August 24, 2011

Published on 26 Aug 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended August 24, 2011. After what seemed to be a stable week in the U.S. equity markets, a disastrous report from the Philadelphia Fed supported increasing concerns over the possibility of a double-dip. Looking at weekly mutual fund flow numbers we see that investor sentiment was relatively subdued. Equity mutual funds—coming off their previous week of inflows—posted net redemptions of roughly $436 million. Taxable Bond funds were able to break their four week losing streak as the group posted net inflows of $967 million. Municipals continued their four-week run of outflows—although at a slower pace—as the category pushed out $160 million for the week. Money markets also gave back as the group reported net outflows of $5.8 billion.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - August 3, 2011

Published on 05 Aug 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
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.

Lipper 2011 Second Quarter Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 29 Jun 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews preliminary mutual fund flow numbers for the second quarter 2011 in this WebEx replay. In spite of economic concerns and a weakening in global markets, mutual funds were able to post quarterly net inflows of roughly $13 billion as of June 22nd. Equity Funds as a whole were able to draw in $20.3 billion as the group was bolstered by growing interest in World Equity (+$14.0 billion) offerings. A growing aversion to risk helped Taxable Bond funds continue on their winning ways as they recorded $43.2 billion in new assets. For the second quarter in a row, Loan Participation Funds (+$8.2 billion) and Multi-Sector Income Funds (+$6.9 billion) had the largest inflows for the group. Municipal Bond Funds looked to end the quarter with outflows of $4.6 billion--not all that surprising as the group just recently ended a 29 week outflow streak. That said, there seems to be some light at the end of that tunnel as municipal funds have seen twelve consecutive weeks of positive returns and two weeks of scant, but positive flows. Money Market Funds have continued to shed assets with $36.1 billion in outflows.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - June 15, 2011

Published on 17 Jun 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
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.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - May 18, 2011

Published on 20 May 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended May 18, 2011. Increasing concern about inflation as well as a drop in retail sales couldn’t keep investors out of the game as equity mutual funds posted net inflows of $1.6 billion for the week ending May 18, 2011. Taxable Bond products experienced their twenty-second consecutive week of inflows at $3.9 billion. Municipal Bond Funds continued to shed assets with weekly net outflows of $145 million; their twenty-seventh straight week of outflows. Money Market Funds pushed out $9.4 billion; continuing their roller-coaster ride as they experienced $16.8 billion of inflows last week.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - April 27, 2011

Published on 29 Apr 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
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.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - April 20, 2011

Published on 21 Apr 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended April 20, 2011. Overall the conventional U.S. mutual fund business experienced outflows of $27 billion as investors pulled cash out of Money Market Funds (-$30.3 billion). Investors continued to show confidence in equity funds as the group posted weekly inflows of roughly $2.3 billion. Taxable Bond funds followed suit as they added $2.2 billion to their coffers.

Lipper 2011 First Quarter Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 12 Apr 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Investors trained their focus on equity mutual funds as the group ended the quarter with net inflows of $57 billion. This was quite a turnaround from the $12.1 billion in outflows posted the previous quarter. Taxable fixed income also faired well by adding $36.2 billion to its coffers, bolstered by heavy interest in both Loan Participation Funds (+$14.4 billion) and Multi Sector Income Funds (+$8.1 billion). The prospects for municipal debt funds were similar to that of their previous quarter with approximately $20.4 billion flowing out of their products. Money market funds also ended the quarter with net outflows as the loss of $88.1 billion dragged overall numbers for the conventional fund business into the red.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - March 30, 2011

Published on 01 Apr 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended March 30, 2011. Overall the conventional U.S. mutual fund business experienced inflows of $6.5 billion for the week as investors jumped back into equity funds as the group posting weekly inflows of roughly $2.2 billion.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - March 9, 2011

Published on 11 Mar 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
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.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - February 23, 2011

Published on 25 Feb 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Investors continued to show confidence in equity mutual funds as the asset group posted their tenth consecutive week of inflows.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - January 26, 2011

Published on 01 Feb 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended January 26, 2011. Flows into Domestic Equity funds outpaced their Non-Domestic counterparts for the sixth consecutive week as the Dow reached for its two and a half year high.

Lipper Weekly U.S. Fund Flows Video Series - January 5, 2011

Published on 07 Jan 2011, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended January 5, 2011. For the week, equity mutual funds post their fifth consecutive period of inflows as U.S. focused products report their largest weekly inflow since December 2006.

Lipper FMI Weekly U.S. Flows - November 23, 2010

Published on 26 Nov 2010, by Matthew Lemieux
Matthew Lemieux reviews Lipper's U.S. weekly fund flows for the week ended November 23, 2010.

Lipper 2010 Third Quarter Fund Flows Review WebEx Replay

Published on 11 Oct 2010, by Matthew Lemieux
Despite a stellar quarter for equity mutual funds, gun-shy investors continued to redeem assets from equity funds in Q3 and preferred to put new money to work in the perceived safety of fixed income mutual funds and money market funds. Matt highlights flows trends in the industry for the third quarter.
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