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Quant Insights
Decoding China Fund Flows
In this Quants Corner, we will isolate the return profiles for major cryptocurrencies and see if they provide a sufficiently strong foundation for...
Crypto: Digital gold or fools gold?
In this Quants Corner, we will isolate the return profiles for major cryptocurrencies and see if they provide a sufficiently strong foundation for...
Playing with dynamite
In this Quant’s Corner, we will look at the growing number of single-security Leveraged Funds in EPFR’s database and explore ways to generate...
Economist Insights
Going for gold in the second half of October
On the surface, the third week of October was another good one for EPFR-tracked mutual funds and ETFs. Bond Funds took in another $17.2 billion and...
China’s outperformance is finding buyers
Going into the second half of October, investors continued to tune out the noise surrounding Sino-US trade relations and buy into the strong...
Rate cut brings dollar strength in focus
In the wake of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut of 2025, benchmark US equity indexes surged to fresh record highs.
Multimedia
Rich in Flows, Poor in Perception: A Diverging Narrative of US Capital Positioning Under Trump 2.0
Thus far in Trump 2.0, capital has poured into US equity and bond funds at a pace unseen since 2020. But beneath these headline flows lies a more...
EPFR Market Insights: Ultra-Short Bond Funds Set Record Inflows —What’s Driving It?
Watch our video on demand, as Senior Research Analyst Kirsten Longbottom and Research Director Cameron Brandt explore the flows, performance and...
EPFR’s Summer Market Insights Series: Collateralized Loan Obligation Funds
Join Senior Research Analyst, Kirsten Longbottom, and Director of Research, Cameron Brandt, as we launched EPFR’s Summer Market Insight series. The...
Papers
EPFR Papers: Estimating asymmetric price impact
This paper studies the asymmetric price impacts mutual fund and ETF flows have on individual stocks in demand-based asset pricing.
A rising tide lifts some (Japanese) boats: The Bank of Japan’s ETF purchases and their impact on market signals for individual stocks
The Bank of Japan has been the pace-setter among central banks when it comes to purchasing non-government financial securities. It was the first...
Oil bonds still have fuel in the tank – but how long will it last?
Fixed income markets are abuzz about the spectacular demand for new green bonds. Flows into fixed income funds with socially responsible investing...