CHICAGO, Dec. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset flows for November 2018. In November, investors placed $28.4 billion into passive U.S. equity funds, compared with inflows of $20.4 billion in the previous month. On the active front, investors pulled $18.4 billion, compared with $16.8 billion of outflows as reported last month. Morningstar estimates net flow for mutual funds by computing the change in assets not explained by the performance of the fund and net flow for ETFs by computing the change in shares outstanding.

Morningstar's report about U.S. asset flows for November 2018 is available here. Highlights from the report include:

• Long-term flows stabilized in November with about $1.5 billion in outflows after last month's $29.0 billion in outflows. Overall 2018 long-term flows will likely finish well below the average from the prior 10 years, with year-to-date long-term inflows of about $245.0 billion.
• Among Morningstar category groups, notable trends include moving to ultrashort-term vehicles, with money market funds collecting $78.7 billion and ultrashort bond funds had another record month of inflows with $13.2 billion. Short-government funds received approximately $5.7 billion, the most in at least a decade, while short-term bond funds took in a more modest $1.8 billion. Overall, taxable-bond funds had their second consecutive month of outflows of approximately $4.7 billion, which hasn't happened in nearly three years.
• Large-blend continued to lead all Morningstar categories, with $14.8 billion of inflows. Intermediate-term bond was the least popular category, with outflows of $8.2 billion in November.
• Among top U.S. fund families, iShares saw the highest monthly inflows of $25.3 billion and were broad-based across the ETF lineup, but iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets, iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond, and iShares Edge MSCI Minimum Volatility USA contributed the greatest inflows out of the iShares fund family with $3.2 billion, $2.4 billion, and $1.9 billion respectively. Vanguard collected the second-most inflows for the month with $10.6 billion, helped by Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, which collected the third-most inflows of all fund families for the month with $3.5 billion.
• Franklin Templeton's active lineup continued to suffer outflows, with the firm overall seeing the most monthly outflows at $2.9 billion. PIMCO had the second-highest outflows at $2.7 billion. Oakmark saw the third-highest outflows with $2.6 billion, hurt by $1.1 billion of outflows from Oakmark International Equity, which boasts a Morningstar Analyst Rating™ of Gold and recently announced that it would be re-opening to new investors.

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