Equity, Bond & Money Market Fund Flows Report

The weekly mutual fund flows data shows more money is still going into bond funds than equity funds.  Also, GDP growth is clearly aided by people pulling money out of their money market savings accounts.

Annual data shown in table 1 below.

Weekly 04/28/2010

• Equity Fund Inflows $3.8 Bil;
• Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $4.3 Bil
• xETFs - Equity Fund Inflows $1.7 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $3.2 Bil

ExETFs—For the week ended 4/28/2010 All Equity funds report net inflows totaling $1.725 billion as Domestic Equity funds report net inflows of $1.398 billion and Non-Domestic Equity funds report net inflows of $0.326 billion...  The rate of inflows to Non-Domestic funds is $1.243 billion/week, as measured over four weeks...  ExETFs—Emerging Markets Debt funds report net inflows of $0.220 billion…  Net inflows are reported for All Taxable Bond funds ($4.336 billion), bringing the rate of inflows of the $2.292-trillion sector to $5.924 billion/week...  Net inflows are reported to Corporate Investment Grade funds totaling $1.159 billion...  Net inflows are reported to Flexible Funds totaling $1.656 billion... International & Global Debt funds have reported inflows (+$1.213 billion) for the fifty-eighth consecutive week...  Money Market funds report net outflows totaling $7.726 billion...  ExETFs—Municipal Bond funds report net inflows of $0.085 billion…            

Table 1	AMG Fund Flows for Full Year - $B
---------------	Equity	Tax Bond	MM Fund
Fund Flows for 2003	40.8	40.7	NC
Fund Flows for 2004	95.0	11.3	(64.3)
Fund Flows for 2005	71.9	9.3	89.0
Fund Flows for 2006	52.5	29.9	308.3
Fund Flows for 2007	111.3	68.8	569.5
Fund Flows for 2008	3.5	(3.3)	608.0
Fund Flows for 2009	6.0	172.0	(280.2)
Fund Flows for 2010	(0.5)	66.6	(362.8)

NC = Data Not Compiled

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The Lipper FMI Fund Flows Database

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Equity, Bond and Money Market Fund Flows as reported by AMG/Lipper Weekly Fund Flows Data at http://www.amgdata.com