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January Fund Flows Show Exuberant Investors: Strategic Insight, TrimTabs
Advisor One
Tue, 5 Feb 2013
An all-time record $77.4 billion flowed into U.S.-listed equity mutual funds and ETFs in January, according to TrimTabs Investment Research. Also in January, net inflows to bond funds are estimated to exceed $40 billion, says Strategic Insight.
January asset flows revealed heavy buying activity of open - end equity funds for the first time in several years, but it's too soon to call it a trend, says Morningstar's Michael Rawson.
As economic concerns weighed, taxable- bondfunds were the strongest asset gainers in May, but their inflows were only about half what they were the prior month, says Morningstar's Kevin McDevitt.
Bond - fund investors need to focus on duration, credit quality, and relative yields to better understand how much risk they're taking on, says Morningstar's Eric Jacobson.