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By Tom Roseen For the third month in four investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing $19.1 billion from the conventional funds business (excluding ETFs) for November. For the fifth consecutive month stock & mixed-asset funds suffered net redemptions, handing back some $24.0 billion for November (their largest net redemption since December 2014), while for the fifth month in six fund investors were net sellers of fixed income funds, removing $3.9 billion from the macro-group for November. For the second month in a row money market funds witnessed net inflows, taking in $8.8 billion for November. Despite a better-than-expected jobs report at the beginning of November, M&A news in the biotech industry, and a jump in financials, investors remained wary during the month in anticipation of the Federal Reserve’s raising interest rates in December. The Labor Department said the U.S. economy added 271,000 jobs for October-above the consensus-expected 185,000. Softer European Union gross domestic product data, weak economic reports from China, and worse-than-expected retail sales data mid-month led to one of the largest weekly losses in months. A large slide in oil prices placed a further pall over equities. However, comments by Fed policy makers indicating they would raise interest rates in a slow and careful manner, accompanied by news that the European Central Bank (ECB) will combat low inflation by deploying stimulus measures in December, helped ease investors’ concerns, leading to one of the largest weekly gains in the S&P 500 in almost a year. Strong earnings reports and an increase in quarterly dividends from the likes of Intuit and Nike were offset by news of slowing growth in emerging markets and by ongoing geopolitical concerns. Energy and mining shares were hit particularly hard during the month as concerns over excessive oil supplies and disappointing Chinese economic data played on investor psyche. The Mixed-Asset Funds macro-classification (+$4.5 billion) attracted the only net inflows of Lipper’s five equity macro-classifications, while USDE funds experienced the largest outflows (-$23.1 billion). Large-cap funds (-$9.3 billion) suffered the largest monthly net redemptions of the capitalization groupings for the fourth consecutive month. Again, in contrast to its open-end fund counterpart, the ETF universe witnessed its tenth consecutive month of net inflows, taking in $24.1 billion for November. For the third month in a row authorized participants (APs) were net purchasers of equity ETFs-injecting $23.7 billion (their largest net inflows since March), and for the fifth month in a row they were also net purchasers of bond ETFs-although injecting only $0.5 billion for November. Surrounded by uncertainty and looking for greater clarity by the ECB on its proposed monetary easing, for the fourth month in five APs’ appetite for USDE ETFs topped that for all other types of equity ETFs. The macro-classification witnessed the strongest net inflows (+$14.1 billion) of Lipper’s five equity-related macro-classifications, followed by World Equity ETFs (+$5.7 billion), Sector Equity ETFs (+$4.4 billion), and Mixed-Asset ETFs (+$0.3 billion). The Alternatives ETFs macro-classification (-$0.8 billion) suffered the only net outflows for the month. If you’d like to read the entire November 2015 FundFlows Insight Report with all its tables and charts, please click here . Scalper1 News
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