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Posted on May 2, 2025
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European equity funds saw record inflows, while US funds faced outflows for the third week due to tariff concerns. Global bond funds attracted investments.
(Reuters) -European equity funds attracted the largest weekly inflow in over a year in the week ending April 30, while U.S. funds saw outflows for a third straight week on continued uncertainty around the impact of tariffs on global economic growth.
Investors bought a net $14.64 billion worth of European equity funds, the most in any week since mid-March 2024, data from LSEG Lipper showed, while investments into Asian funds totalled $6.68 billion.
A net $15.56 billion was divested from U.S. funds.
Data from the U.S. this week showed that the economy contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter, swamped by a flood of imports as businesses raced to avoid higher tariffs.
There were outflows from sectoral funds for a fifth consecutive week, totalling $166 million. The gold and precious metals sectoral funds saw $759 million in outflows while investors divested a net $374 million from metals and mining sector funds.
At the same time, investors pumped $4.73 billion into global bond funds, extending net purchases into a second successive week.
Global high-yield bond funds saw a net $3.58 billion in inflows, after five straight weeks of net selling. Global short-term bond funds witnessed net purchases of $1.56 billion.
But global money market funds saw net sales of $26.06 billion after witnessing about $15.26 billion worth of net inflows during the previous week.
Gold and precious metals commodity funds registered their first weekly net sales in 12 weeks, with investors pulling out a marginal $4.4 million.
Data covering 29,589 emerging market funds showed that equity funds drew in their first weekly inflows in five weeks, of $892 million. Investors also poured a net of $690 million into emerging market bond funds.
(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra and Patturaja Murugaboopathy in Bengaluru; Editing by Rachna Uppal)
The article discusses the inflow into European equity funds and outflows from US funds amid economic uncertainty.
US funds are experiencing outflows due to uncertainty around the impact of tariffs on economic growth.
Global bond funds have seen significant inflows, continuing a trend of net purchases for a second week.
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