Investors seemed to be hung over for the week ended Wednesday, April 24, after bleak economic reports and news that included a fake AP tweet about explosions at the White House. The S&P 500 index finally put together three straight days of gains, returning 1.75% for the week, but that was after a lousy week [...]

With both major U.S. market benchmarks now trading at or near all-time records and unease growing about the prospect of some kind of pullback, the markets have become more volatile. Still, investors continue to keep the dial in the “risk on” position, continuing to put money to work in both bonds and stocks. Only municipal [...]

Investors seem quite content to remain in ‘risk-on’ mode, despite warnings that the stock market rally is getting long in the tooth and may stall, and that optimism was reflected in their willingness to continue to invest in small-cap stocks and corporate bonds in the week ended March 13. Investors continued to downplay the litany [...]

Stock ETF investors pulled money off the table in response to the market’s volatility and the decline in the price of gold. But while the net inflow into equity funds of all kinds turned negative, investors continued to contribute net new funds into conventional mutual funds as well as taxable fixed income funds. Political uncertainty [...]

In spite of a brief selloff and some economic clouds on the horizon, investors continued to emphasize equity fund investments, with mutual funds and ETFs together reporting $6.1 billion of fresh inflows in the week ended February 6. Investors pushed key stock market indices to new highs during the week ended February 6, a period [...]

Equity mutual fund net inflows hit a four-week total of $20.7 billion, the largest recorded since April 12, 2000. With only a single day left in the first month of the new year, investors continued to allocate funds to equity funds of all kinds, often at a rate not seen in years. Indeed, the net [...]

With a new (albeit temporary) budget agreement in place and signs that the economy may be on firmer footing, investors flung money into virtually all classes of funds in the week ended January 9, often at near-record levels, according to Lipper data. The new year got underway with a bang, as investors purchased a net [...]

Even before the negotiations aimed at stemming the “fiscal cliff” crisis stalled late this week, uncertainty was causing investors to pull money out of virtually all categories of funds. Last week’s senseless murders in Newtown, Connecticut caused – understandably – many of our elected officials to take time off from discussions of a solution to [...]

Investors continued to display a degree of risk aversion in the week ended November 28, with Lipper data showing they prefer to be in ultra-liquid equity ETFs than conventional mutual funds. An overdose of turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie didn’t curb investors’ appetite for stocks in the days immediately following Thanksgiving, although a wave of [...]

Despite the U.S. stock market’s swoon in the wake of the presidential election, investors showed they remain willing to invest in equity funds, although Lipper’s most recent data suggests they continue to favor ETFs. The week ended Wednesday, November 7, included the worst single-day decline the Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced this year, as [...]