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EQUITY/BOND Fund Flows for Week of May 5th


WEEKLY

May 3- Equity Fund Inflows $7.5 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $788 Mil;
(xETF's Equity Fund Inflows $1.9 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $821 Mil)

Apr 26- Equity Fund Inflows $2.1 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $350 Mil
(xETF's - Equity Fund Inflows $2.3 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $130 Mil)


Flows: May 3
Independent Data on Fund Flows & Holdings

• Including ETF activity, Equity funds report net cash inflows totaling $7.493 billion in the week ended 5/3/06 with Domestic funds reporting net inflows totaling $5.211 billion and Non-domestic funds reporting net inflows totaling $2.283 billion;
• Excluding ETF activity, Equity funds report net cash inflows totaling $1.932 billion with Domestic funds reporting inflows totaling $675 million and Non-domestic funds reporting inflows totaling $1.257 billion;
• Exchange Traded Funds report net inflows totaling $5.561 billion with most going to Large Cap Growth/Value funds ($3.049 Bil) and International funds ($1.025 Bil);
• Excluding ETF activity, International Equity funds report inflows totaling $976 million to all Emerging and Developed regions except Japan (-$45 Mil);
• Largest ETF inflows:
$2.713 Bil to the SPDR Trust Series 1 fund
$467 Mil to the DIAMONDS fund
$369 Mil to the Select Sector SPDRs Financial fund;
• Largest ETF outflows:
-$374 Mil from the iShares Russell 2000 Index fund
-$292 Mil from the iShares DJ US Real Estate Index fund;
• Excluding ETF activity, Taxable Bond funds report inflows totaling $821 million as inflows to International & Global Debt funds ($384 Mil), Flexible Funds ($351 Mil), High Quality Corporate Bond Funds ($246 Mil), and Investment Grade Corporate Bond funds ($207 Mil) are offset by outflows from Government Bond funds (-$149 Mil), Balanced funds (-$131 Mil) and High Yield Corporate Bond funds (-$88 Mil);
• Money Market funds report net cash inflows totaling $7.661 billion;
• Municipal Bond funds report net cash inflows totaling $254 million with inflows reported to all sectors.

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