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$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from equity mutual funds. Five year figures are even more ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... stock funds worldwide in the past four weeks". This is just about 10% of the US$533.37 billion the Investment Company Institute estimates as having flowed out of equities over the past five years through 2012. "... all the bad feelings have disappear ...

No money in equities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... Or are the bulls? Or are the in-betweeners? Speaking of putting money in mouths, I came across the Investment Company Institute's website. Among other services, it tracks the funds flow into major asset markets around the world. Now let's see where everyone's ...

SEC triggers industry protest storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... SEC warning of the consequences of misguided changes for their finances and for the economy," said Investment Company Institute (ICI) chief executive Paul Schott Stevens in a speech to his association last week. Schott Steven's concerns are that investors ...

Global ETPs hits $1.58 trillion

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... market similar trends continued with capital flowing into ETFs over the past five weeks according to Investment Company Institute figures. These figures show that $20.4 billion was taken from mutual funds that invest long-term in U.S. stocks while three ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... question mark. But financial markets seemed to have made up their mind. Bloomberg cites data from Investment Company Institute showing that net inflows into US equities amounted to US$4.92 billion in the week ended 9 February - the most in almost two ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... equity funds from 1999 to 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Washington-based Investment Company Institute." Get that US$480.2 bil - that's almost half a 1,000,000,000,000! "Imagine there's no heaven." John Lennon. We know what happened ...

Vanguard launches ETFs in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... funds has encouraged investors to place more investments into ETFs in the past year. According to the Investment Company Institute, the US fund management industry's representative body, American investors invested nearly US$200 billion into ETFs in ...

Investors turn to ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
New research from the Investment Company Institute of Washington has reported that US investors withdrew US$128.7 billion out of managed funds but invested US$133 billion into exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the first 11 months of 2008. ETF provider ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million proxy votes cast by fund managers in the past 12 months to confirm or dispel the commonly ...