Cryptocurrency Funds take center stage
Investors had plenty to look forward to during the first full week of 2024: updated US inflation data, a raft of earnings reports from major...
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Cash and China ring in the New Year
The week leading into the New Year provided an exclamation point for two of the most successful fund groups, in flow terms, during 2023. China...
Pivoting to optimism as 2023 winds down
Investors have a lengthy wish list for 2024. On it are lower US and Eurozone interest rates, more aggressive stimulus measures by Chinese...
Investors start closing the book on 2023
The flash of animal spirits that followed the US Federal Reserve’s final policy meeting of 2023 in mid-December carried equity markets higher for...
Fed gives Santa a green light to rally
A week marked by caution and muted fund flows ended with a burst of enthusiasm triggered by the US Federal Reserve’s acknowledgment of progress in...
$1.2 trillion and counting for US liquidity funds
The first week of December saw US Money Market Funds absorb another $69 billion, lifting their year-to-date total past the $1.2 trillion mark, while...
US funds enter home stretch of 2023 at the gallop
Coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday, investors stuck to their US-centric course ahead of more good news on the inflation front. US Money Market,...
For US funds, the money keeps rolling in
Investors continued to give thanks for US assets during the third week of November. Combined flows into US Equity, Bond and Money Market Funds hit...
Investors like what they see in US tea leaves
Do 4.9% third quarter GDP growth, the lowest core CPI reading in two years and an unemployment rate at a 21-month high add up to a soft landing for...
Risk appetite rebounds in early November
After several weeks of shunning exposure to riskier asset classes in favor of cash, gold and US sovereign debt, investors shed some of their caution...
Central banks not the only ones on hold
The week going into November encompassed two major central bank meetings, the next stage in Israel’s war against Hamas, more weak...
Investors spurning diversified exposure
Faced with rising geopolitical risk and globalization in retreat, investors showed little appetite for diversified exposure going into the final...
Uncertainty the only constant in early 4Q23
With a growing number of third quarter earnings reports to analyze, US 10-year Treasury yields touching a 17-year high, oil prices rising in tandem...
Emerging Markets funds under pressure
Investors pulled a combined $6 billion out of EPFR-tracked Emerging Markets Bond and Equity Funds during the second week of October, with the latter...
Known unknowns abound in early 4Q23
US Money Market Funds started October with their biggest weekly inflow in six months as investors struggled to make sense of a market where interest...