Meanwhile, EM debt funds saw $1.8 billion in redemptions - the most in 10 weeks.
"Retail overwhelmingly prefers developed-market over emerging-market equities and high yield over emerging-market debt," says BofA Merrill Lynch chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett.
Below is a complete breakdown of this week's
Asset Class Flows
Equities: small $0.2bn inflows (note $1.6bn LO inflows offset by $1.4bn ETF outflows)
Bonds: $2.7bn outflows ($85bn outflows since Jun'13)
Precious metals: 9 straight weeks of outflows
MMF: first outflows in 4 weeks
Equity Flows
EM: largest outflows in 20 weeks ($4.7bn); fund redemptions concentrated in Global EM, Korea & Brazil
Europe: 20 straight weeks of inflows
Japan: 10 straight weeks of inflows
US: modest $2.2bn inflows
Fixed Income Flows
7 straight weeks of outflows from EM debt funds ($1.8bn) (outflows in 24 out of past 25 weeks)
31 straight weeks of outflows from TIPS
26 straight weeks of outflows from MBS
73 straight weeks of inflows to floating-rate debt
Modest inflows into both IG and HY bond funds