Thursday, April 2, 2009

Bond Funds getting money and large cap stocks are facing redemptions

- The bond funds macro-group (+$13.8 billion) was the only macro-classification attracting net flows in February, while stock and mixed-equity funds handed back $24.9 billion and money market funds witnessed $6.7 billion of net redemptions.
- Large-cap funds (-$6.4 billion) continued to be the pariah of the U.S. Diversified Equity (USDE) funds group, while small-cap funds (-$1.2 billion) mitigated outflows better than the other capitalization groups.
- In February the Mixed-Equity Funds macro-group (-$3.9
billion) suffered its fifth monthly redemption in eight. The mixed-asset target horizon funds group's inflows (+$2.7
billion) were swamped by the net redemptions witnessed in the mixed-asset target allocation funds group (-$6.4 billion).
- For the year-to-date period World Equity Funds, shedding some $8.9 billion to net redemptions, handed back the largest amount of the four equity macro-classification breakouts.