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Also of note were outflows from BRICs equity funds, which were all the largest on record this past week – Brazil funds lost 1.8% of assets under management, Russia funds lost 0.8%, India funds lost 0.4%, and China funds lost 0.1%.
Below is a complete breakdown of this week's fund flow data, via Hartnett:
Asset Class Flows
Equities: $9.6bn inflows ($6.7bn via ETFs) (6 straight weeks)
Bonds: $2.2bn outflows (largest outflows in 4 weeks)
Precious metals: $0.6bn outflows (record-extending 26 straight weeks)
Equity Flows
Strong $1.8bn inflows to Europe (6 straight weeks)
$5.7bn inflows to US (6 straight weeks) ($4.2bn via ETFs)
$0.7bn inflows to Japan (inflows in 28 out of past 29 weeks)
$0.7bn outflows from EM equity funds; BRICs all record outflows
Fixed Income Flows
$4.0bn outflows from Govt/Tsy (largest on record in absolute terms); caveat is that outflows from IEI (iShares 3-7y Treasury Bond ETF) accounted for half the redemptions
17 straight weeks out of TIPS ($0.4bn)
11 straight weeks out of Munis ($0.9bn)
11 straight weeks out of EM debt ($0.4bn); but pace of outflows slowing
59 straight weeks of inflows to leveraged loan funds ($2.0bn)
$1.3bn inflows to HY bond funds ($12bn inflows over past 6 weeks)
3 straight weeks of small inflows to IG bond funds ($0.4bn)