Dec 8, 2017
Thomson Reuters Lipper’s fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in net-new money for the fifth straight week, with positive net inflows of $4.8 billion for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, December 6. Equity funds (+$3.0 billion) and money market funds (+$2.0 billion) were responsible for the bulk of the net inflows, while taxable bond funds contributed $547 million to the total. Municipal bond funds suffered net outflows (-$807 million), breaking a streak of four consecutive weekly increases.