Posts tagged 'Fund flows'

The rush from risk, in numbers

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Jun 07 16:29 | Comment |

The market mood was sharply brighter on Friday after the May payrolls failed to produce any fresh shocks. But there was more evidence of the damage already done to investor confidence.

The latest data from fund flow specialists EPFR suggest $12.5bn was pulled from bond funds globally last week — the highest dollar value of net redemptions in the 12-year history of the data series. The sell-off seems to have been across the board, but particularly aggressive amongst high yield and emerging market paper. Read more

Why the fund flow data should make you cautious

Paul Murphy is the founding editor of FT Alphaville.

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| Jan 11 18:04 | Comment |

It’s a big theme: investors of all colours have reportedly been pouring money into equity funds of late. In fact, over the past week money has been flowing into stocks at the fastest rate since September 2007, according to EPFR.

Which should give all investors pause for thought. Read more

Trimtabs on the US lost decade

Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.

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| Sep 28 2010 14:38 | Comment |

We were just wondering about what might have scared investors off equities this year.

And so it is that TrimTabs, a US investment research firm, offers us at least a partial explanation on Tuesday. Read more

Hot money investors hold on to their cash

Cardiff writes mostly about US macroeconomic issues, with daily excursions into other topics about which he claim no expertise. Before Alphaville, Cardiff spent a little more than two years as a reporter at Dow Jones Financial News covering investment banking, asset management, and private equity. Along the way he has written freelance pieces on a variety of other topics from behavioural psychology to Muay Thai, the latter also being a personal interest that involves frequently getting kicked in the shins (and torso, and head).

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| Aug 09 2010 22:18 | Comment |

In spite of the considerable efforts of enthusiastic emerging markets equity and bond sales teams, investors are nibbling, not biting, reports the FT in the first of a series. The Institute for International Finance, the bankers’ club, estimates that this year will see private capital inflows into emerging economies of $708bn, down from an earlier forecast of $722bn. This is up from $531bn last year but well short of the pre-crisis record of $1,277bn seen in 2007. Read more