An unusual visitor comes knocking on Japan’s door. Did it RSVP?
After literally decades of being on the losing side despite serial, increasingly massive quantitative easing programs, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has...
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Early-release flow data: jumping on a bandwagon?
EPFR’s daily flow data is usually released around 5 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) the following business day. That is – narrowly – too late to...
Off the wires: Bitcoin is one year away from a major technical event. History suggests the start of another bull run
Bitcoin’s next “halving” is expected to take place in 2024. These events take place when Bitcoin miners have added 210,000 “blocks” to the...
Off the wires: US inflation falls to lowest level since May 2021
According to CNN, annual inflation dropped in March 2023 for the ninth consecutive month, and grocery prices fell month-on-month for the first time...
When ETF flows confound expectations
From time to time, EPFR’s clients alert us to anomalous flows into exchange traded funds (ETFs) that occur on a specific day and for a specific...
Off the wires: Google launches Bard chatbot to rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT
In late November 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT – an AI driven chatbot that can answer complex questions and handle almost any topic. A couple of...
Off the wires: Money market funds swell by more than $286bn amid deposit flight
The collapse of several US regional banks and the UBS-Credit Suisse merger in March spurred investors to look for alternative homes for their money....
Off the wires: Tesla stock gathers steam as reports show EV giant hits brakes on China plant production
As Tesla halted the production line at its Shanghai plant, Steve Xinlei Shen uses EPFR’s Stock Flows dataset to assess to assess investor...
Off the wires: Nike, Adidas shoe supplier to cut up to 3,000 jobs in Vietnam this month
Azalea Micottis expands on a recent Nikkei Asia article to deep dive into the latest Vietnam’s equity fund trends using EPFR Fund Flows and...
Off the wires: US-China trade hits record high despite rising tensions
Olivia Blaszkowski from EPFR takes a recent BBC article to look into US investor sentiment towards China. Fund flows show that the tide is...
For bond fund flows, green is gold
EPFR’s Vik Srimurthy uses our fund flows data to analyse the evolution of SRI/ESG funds (also called “green bonds”), and their...
Off the wires: Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America
Post pandemic, the US and Europe have seen prices soar and policymakers have been scrambling to slow the pace of inflation. Europe and the US took...
Off the wires: Frontier and emerging markets: Inflection points
The blog referenced in this piece emphasizes the importance of using historical relative performance of equity markets for developing robust...
Off the wires: India raises $1bn from maiden green bond sale
India sold its first sovereign “green” bonds on Wednesday, a debut that was well-received by the market. In this short Off the Wire piece, we will...
Comfort with China exceeds $1 trillion
At the turn of the century, investing in China was viewed as a risky proposition. Foreign access to a notoriously volatile, retail-driven equity...