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Estimated Long-Term Mutual Fund Flows

* Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Washington, DC, December 12, 2012 - Total estimated outflows to long-term mutual funds were $2.01 billion for the week ended Wednesday, December 5, the Investment Company Institute reported today. Flow estimates are derived from data collected covering more than 95 percent of industry assets and are adjusted to represent industry totals.

Equity funds had estimated outflows of $7.16 billion for the week, compared to estimated outflows of $627 million in the previous week. Domestic equity funds had estimated outflows of $5.84 billion, while estimated outflows from world equity funds were $1.32 billion.

Hybrid funds, which can invest in stocks and fixed income securities, had estimated outflows of $70 million for the week, compared to estimated inflows of $144 million in the previous week.

Bond funds had estimated inflows of $5.23 billion, compared to estimated inflows of $4.25 billion during the previous week. Taxable bond funds saw estimated inflows of $4.15 billion, while municipal bond funds had estimated inflows of $1.07 billion.

http://www.ici.org/research/stats/flows/flows_12_12_12

George.

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