Industry flows rebounded by more than $37 billion this week, thanks largely to the return of equity fund inflows and the collapse of money fund outflows, according to the latest data from the Lipper team at Refinitiv.

Jack Fischer Refinitiv Lipper Senior Research Analyst

In the U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight report for the week ending March 23, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $9.2 billion net flowed into mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's first week of net inflows in three weeks, up from $28.1 billion in net outflows last week. Long-term (i.e. non-money market) funds and ETFs brought in $12.1 billion in net inflows this week, up from $9 billion in net outflows last week.

Equity funds led the way with $11.3 billion in net inflows this week, up from $3.1 billion in net outflows last week. Taxable bond funds brought in $2.3 billion in net inflows this week, up from $3.8 billion in net outflows.

On the flip side, money market funds suffered $2.9 billion in net outflows this week, down from $19.1 billion last week. And tax-exempt bond funds suffered $1.5 billion in net outflows this week, down from $2.1 billion.

Equity ETFs brought in $12.8 billion in net inflows this week, their seventh week in a row of inflows, up from $3.2 billion last week. Domestic equity ETFs brought in $11.4 billion this week (also their seventh week of inflows in a row), while nondomestic equity ETFs brought in $1.4 billion (their first week of inflows in three weeks).

Yet conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $1.5 billion in net outflows this week, their seventh week of outflows in a row, down from $6.3 billion last week. Conventional domestic equity funds suffered $966 million in net outflows this week (also their seventh week of outflows in a row), while conventional nondomestic equity funds suffered $528 million in net outflows (their fourth week of outflows in a row).

On the fixed income side, taxable bond ETFs brought in $5.2 billion in net inflows this week, their fifth week of inflows in a row. Municipal bond ETFs brought in $127 million in net inflows this week, their third week of inflows in a row.

Yet conventional taxable bond funds suffered $2.8 billion in net outflows this week, their ninth week of outflows in a row. And conventional muni bond funds suffered $1.6 billion in net outflows this week, their 11th week of outflows in a row. 

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