Fixed income drove the return of industry outflows this week, though outflows from stock funds fell, 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 for the week ending May 4, 2022 (i.e. Wednesday), Jack Fischer, senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper, reveals that $11.5 billion net flowed out of mutual funds and ETFs in the U.S. this week. That's the industry's fourth week of outflows in five weeks, down from $28.4 billion in net inflows last week. Long-term funds and ETFs suffered $12.5 billion in net outflows this week, up from $11.6 billion.

Money market funds brought in $966 million in net inflows this week, down from $40 billion last week. On the flip side, taxable bond funds suffered $7.5 billion in net outflows this week (down from $19 million in net inflows), tax-exempt bond funds suffered $2.7 billion in net outflows (down from $2.9 billion), and equity funds suffered $2.3 billion in net outflows (down from $8.8 billion).

Equity ETFs brought in $2.3 billion in net inflows this week, their first week of inflows in four weeks, up from $1.2 billion in net outflows last week. (The biggest equity ETF winner this week was the Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index ETF, i.e. FNDX, with $1.2 billion in net inflows). Yet conventional (i.e. non-ETF) equity funds suffered $4.6 billion in net outflows this week, their 13th week in a row of outflows, down from $7.6 billion last week.

On the fixed income side, ETFs brought in $885 million in net inflows this week, their third week of inflows in a row. (The biggest taxable fixed income ETF winners was the Schwab Intermediate-Term U.S. Treasury ETF, i.e. SCHR, which brought in $2.1 billion in net inflows.) Yet conventional fixed income funds suffered $8.4 billion in net outflows this week, their 15th week of outflows in a row.

Editor's Note: A prior version of this story gave the wrong title for Jack Fischer. To clarify Fischer serves as senior research analyst at Refinitiv Lipper. 

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