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Wednesday, February 18, 2026 Flows Sour Across the Board, Except One $3.3B Spike Industry flows worsened across all major categories last week, except one, according to the latest data from the folks a mutual fund industry trade group. Only taxable fixed income fund flows improved. Today, the the Investment Company Institute (ICI) team reports that an estimated $29.059 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended February 11, 2026.* That's down by $10.972 billion week-over-week from the week ended on February 4** but still brings the industry's inflows streak to five weeks and counting. Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $11.291 billion in net outflows in the week ended February 11, according to the ICI folks, up by $8.44 billion W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $40.35 billion in net inflows last week, down by $2.532 billion W/W. Bond funds led the way for a fourth week running. Per ICI's data, fixed income funds and ETFs brought in an esetimated $26.123 billion in net inflows for the week ended February 11 (up by $3.183 billion W/W). $22.498 billion of that (up by $3.303 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $3.625 billion (down by $120 million W/W) flowed into municipal bond funds and muni ETFs. Per ICI's data, stock funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $3.625 billion in net inflows in the week ended February 11 (down by $10.85 billion W/W), their fifth consecutive week of net inflows. Domestic equtiy funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $3.993 billion in net outflows (a $10.096-billion net flows drop W/W), while world equity ETFs and funds brought in $7.618 billion in net inflows (down by $754 million W/W). Commodity funds (well, ETFs) brought in an estimated $523 million in net inflows for the week ended February 11. It was their fifth week running of inflows, down by $3.05 billion W/W. On the flip side, hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $1.211 billion in net outflows for the week ended February 11. That's up by $254 million W/W. *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. **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. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=72114 Copyright 2026, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |