Lipper-FMI fund flow data - Week ended February 20
Fourth straight week on inflow in US HY funds, leading to a net inflow of $8.4bn YtD which has been greatly supporting the tightening trend in US HY spreads YtD (-128bp in OAS). Fourth consecutive week of inflows as well in IG funds: thanks to almost $2bn net new money entering into US IG funds, the YtD inflows figure has now become positive for US IG funds, after huge outflows at the end of last year and the very start of this year. Meanwhile, leveraged loan funds posted net outflows for the 12 th consecutive week, leading to YtD net outflows of $7.4bn, almost fully offsetting US HY inflows. Also worth noticing that EM debt funds posted net outflows after six straight week of inflows.