Oct 20, 2017
Thomson Reuters Lipper’s fund macro-groups (including both mutual funds and ETFs) took in $15.0 billion of net new money for the fund-flows week ended Wednesday, October 18. This number represented the eighth highest weekly net inflows for the year to date. All four of Lipper’s fund macro-groups experienced net-positive flows, paced by equity funds at $5.4 billion, followed by money market funds (+$5.1 billion), taxable bond funds (+$4.0 billion), and municipal bond funds (+$536 million). It was the fifteenth consecutive week of net inflows for the taxable bond fund group.
Pat Keon, Thomson Reuters Lipper Senior Research Analyst, speaks to the highlights in this week's video.