August 2- Equity Fund Inflows $2.4 Bil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $699 Mil; (xETFs - Equity Fund Outflows -$383 Mil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $713 Mil)
Aug 9- Equity Fund Outflows -$351 Mil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $577 Mil; xETFs - Equity Fund Inflows $101 Mil; Taxable Bond Fund Inflows $398 Mil
Flows: Aug 9 Independent Data on Fund Flows & Holdings
• Including ETF activity Equity Funds report net cash outflows totaling -$351 million in the week ended 8/9/06 with Domestic funds reporting net cash outflows totaling -$934 million and Non-domestic funds reporting net cash inflows totaling $583 million; • Excluding ETF activity Equity Funds report net cash inflows totaling $101 million with Domestic funds reporting net outflows totaling -$338 million and Non-domestic funds reporting net inflows totaling $439 million; • Exchange Traded (Equity) funds report net inflows of -$453 million with the largest flows: $1.135 Bil to the SPDR Trust Series 1 fund; -$1.351 Bil from the iShares Russell 2000 Index fund; -$547 Mil from the Select Sector SPDRs Energy fund; -$278 Mil from the NASDAQ 100 Index Tracking Stock fund; • Excluding ETF activity, International funds report net inflows totaling $354 million with inflows reported by all Emerging and Developed regions except Japan; • Excluding ETF activity, Taxable Bond funds report net inflows totaling $398 million with the largest inflows going to Corporate Bond funds investing in Investment Grade ($205 Mil) and High Yield ($129 million) securities; • High Yield Corporate Bond funds report inflows for four of the last five weeks and consecutively for three weeks for the first time since 11/17/04; • Money Market funds report net cash inflows of $7.913 billion as Taxable MM funds report net inflows of $10.880 billion and • Tax-exempt MM funds report net outflows of -$2.980 billion; • Municipal Bond funds report net cash inflows totaling $103 million.