Lipper-FMI fund flow data - Week ended February 27
Taxable bond funds posted $4.3bnin inflows this week on the back of increasing investors’ risk appetite in the wake of some optimism regarding US-China trade talks earlier this week + dovish statements from the Fed. F if th straight week on inflow both for US HY funds (bringing the YtD net inflow above $9bn) and US IG funds ( biggest weekly inflow since August 2018, and YtD net inflows at $5.5bn) . Positive inflows in equity funds too, but only in ETF (+$7.5bn), while equity mutual funds actually posted $5.1bn leave. On the other hand, leveraged loan funds posted net outflows for the 15 th consecutive week: on a year-to-date basis, those funds saw net cash withdrawals of $7.4bn.