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...
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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.
Fed kicks off rate-cut cycle as flows hit multi-week high
US Equity Funds posted an eye-catching year-to-date high inflow during a week that ended with the Fed cutting interest rates expectedly and a...
Cash, debt and caution drive fund flows in early September
Investors returning from the summer holidays in early September ran into a sobering cocktail of political and sovereign credit risk, weak US labor...
More record-breaking stock buybacks in the US
Before this year, buybacks in the July/August (2Q) earnings season had never surpassed $6 billion a day. This year, buybacks averaged $7.2 billion...
Stars and stripes currently flying at the top of the flow flagpole
Fiscal indiscipline. Volatile policymaking. Fresh attempts to strong-arm the Federal Reserve into cutting interest rates faster and deeper. Despite...
Swimming against the tide in late August
Going into the final days of August, flows to – and from – EPFR-tracked mutual funds and ETFs continued to contradict the broader market narrative...
Are fears of an AI bubble ‘fake news’?
Fears that the Artificial Intelligence story has been pumped up to unsustainable levels dominated the third week of August, with the market value of...
A cautious response to Trump administration’s green light for private equity
Towards the end of the second week of August, the US administration removed a major barrier to 401K retirement plans investing in private equity....
More mixed signals in early August
The search for stable outcomes and yields helped steer another $23 billion into Bond Funds during the first week of August, continuing a trend that...
Investors seek alternatives in mid-July
A raft of second quarter earnings reports from major US financial companies during the second week of July showed that there are some beneficiaries...
New quarter, same tariff-related rhetoric
The third quarter of 2025 began the same way as the second, with US President Donald Trump roiling markets with a barrage of announcements about...
After torrid end to second quarter, investors take a breather
The final 10 days of the second quarter were marked by missile exchanges between Israel and Iran, the passage of the new American administration’s...
Attention in late June shifts from bunker busters to budget busters
With the fallout from American and Israeli strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership undershooting expectations – at least for now –...