U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Reflation Trade Awakens, Financial/Banking ETFs Realize Largest Weekly Inflows Since May

Summary

• During Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended August 11, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the third consecutive week, accumulating $24.7 billion.
• Exchange-traded equity funds recorded $6.0 billion in weekly net inflows. This is the macro-group’s third straight week of net inflows, and it returned a positive 0.83% on average.
• Conventional equity funds (ex-ETFs) were net redeemers for the nineteenth time in 21 weeks (-$1.9 billion). Conventional equity funds posted a weekly return of positive 0.74% on average—their third straight week of positive performance.

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During Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended August 11, 2021, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including both conventional funds and ETFs) for the third consecutive week, accumulating $24.7 billion.

Money market funds (+$10.5 billion), taxable