Industry flows rebounded by 85 percent last week, driven by big increases in taxable bond fund flows and world equity fund flows, according to the latest data from the folks at a mutual fund industry trade group.

Today, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) team reports that an estimated $37.585 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended January 28, 2026. (Money-market funds and funds of funds, as well as non-'40-Act asset management products like collective trusts and separate accounts, are not included.) That's up by $17.3037 billion week-over-week from the week ended on January 21* and brings the industry's inflows streak to three weeks and counting.

Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $2.315 billion in net outflows in the week ended January 28, according to the ICI folks, down by $4.628 billion W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $39.9 billion in net inflows, up by $12.679 billion W/W.

Fixed income led the way for a second week running. Per ICI's data, bond funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $29.762 billion in net inflows for the week ended January 28 (up by $11.315 billion W/W). $25.83 billion of that (up by $10.182 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $3.932 billion (up by $1.134 billion W/W) flowed into municipal bond funds and muni ETFs.

Per ICI's data, equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $6.377 billion in net inflows in the week ended January (up by $4.632 billion W/W), their third consecutive week of net inflows. Domestic equity funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $8.596 billion in net outflows (up by $877 million W/W), but world equity ETFs and funds brought in $14.973 billion in net inflows (up by $5.509 billion W/W).

Commodity funds (well, ETFs) brought in an estimated $2.161 billion in net inflows for the week ended January 28. It was their third week of inflows in a row, up by $492 million W/W.

On the flip side, hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $715 million in net outflows in the week ended January 28. That's down by $868 million W/W.

*Editor's Note: The ICI folks note that they also regularly revise the past weeks' flows data, "because of adjustments, reclassifications, and changes in the number of funds reporting." Thus, the week-to-week flows changes may not quite line up perfectly with the numbers in MFWire's coverage of prior weeks' flows. 

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