Investors tip-toe into the New Year
Over $110 billion – a 131-week high – flowed into EPFR-tracked Money Market Funds during the week ending Jan. 4 as investors surveyed an investment...
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2022: A tale of active versus passive
The final week of 2022 saw EPFR-tracked Bond Funds post consecutive weekly outflows for the first time since mid-October, capping a year when the...
Flow history repeats itself as the year 2022 winds down
A final look to EPFR-tracked equity funds in December 2022, with alternative, balanced, bond and money market funds experiencing significant...
More outflows than inflows as Fed hikes again
Overall, the second week of December 2022 saw all Equity Funds record a collective inflow of $17.9 billion while Bond Funds absorbed $2.3...
Mixed signals for emerging markets
Despite China’s first steps away from the zero-Covid policies that have sapped its economy and some optimistic forecasts for 2023, investors tapped...
Investors cash in on the US-led rally
November closed with one benchmark US equities index returning to ‘bull’ territory. It also ended with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell remarking...
Investors bracing for a chilly December
The glow from October’s better-than-expected US inflation data did not take long to fade. Going into the Thanksgiving holiday, investors found...
A ray of optimism breaks through the clouds
By an underwhelming margin, October’s headline number for US inflation came in below expectations of a 0.1% drop to 8%. But the reaction from...
Another week of mixed signals in early November
Investors came into November anticipating a pivot towards Republicans in the US mid-term elections and fearing that October’s inflation data would...
Falling knives aplenty in early November
In the US, November is – among other things – National Gratitude Month. For investors, however, it is already shaping up to be another month of...
Ready for the times to get better
Impending rate hikes from the European Central Bank and US Federal Reserve. The striking selloff experienced by Chinese assets. Mixed earnings...
Investors bracing for a cold winter
With rising prices and higher interest rates joining, for the moment, death and taxes on the list of life’s certainties, investors kept reducing...
Leaves are not the only things turning red
Risk reduction and defensive positioning remained high on most investors’ lists during the second week of October as the Nasdaq index it its lowest...
Market stability remains elusive in early October
In early October two of the major ratings agencies downgraded the outlook for British sovereign debt from stable to negative. For investors it was a...
British pounds of flesh on market’s menu in late September
Investors, who were already struggling to digest the latest US interest rate hike, were confronted with more unappetizing fare during the fourth...