Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows for January 2018

February 23, 2018

CHICAGO, Feb. 23, 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 January 2018. In January, investors placed $41.2 billion of inflows to U.S. equity passive funds compared with December's $22.5 billion inflow. On the active front, investors pulled $24.1 billion out of U.S. equity funds, compared with $16.3 in the previous 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 January 2018 is available here. Highlights from the report include:

  • Taxable bond was the leading category group in January with $47.0 billion in flows overall, divided almost evenly between the passive and active side. Following taxable bond was international equity with flows of $41.9 billion overall, majority of which went into passive funds.
  • Flows for all category groups totaled $128.1 billion in January, setting a new monthly record. The previous largest flow, $116.2 billion, occurred in January 2013.
  • The Morningstar Category with the highest inflow in January was large blend, despite a $7.3 billion outflow on the active side. Diversified emerging markets and foreign large blend were also in the top Categories but, unlike large blend, with positive flows on both the active and passive side.
  • Among top U.S. fund families in January, American Funds was the leader in active flows with a $7.9 billion inflow. On the passive front, Vanguard continues to be the top fund family, with inflows of $30.4 billion.
  • The active fund with the highest inflow was American Funds Tax Exempt Bond, which has a Morningstar Analyst Rating™ of Bronze, at $2.7 billion. Silver-rated PIMCO Income and Gold-rated Oakmark International followed with inflows of $2.5 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively. Same as the previous month, SPDR S&P 500 ETF was the leader on the passive front with $19.8 billion of flows in January.
  • On the bottom-flowing list in January, Silver-rated Fidelity Contrafund had the highest outflows on the active side of $1.6 billion. Passive funds with the largest outflows included Vanguard Institutional Index and four iShares ETFs.

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