ETF flows fall 28% in Q1 but bonds buck the trend

Inflows of $99.1bn in Q1

Mike Sheen
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Inflows to ETFs fell by more than a quarter in the first three months of 2019, despite a 13% S&P 500 rally over the period and gains across other global equity markets.

ETF inflows reached $99.1bn in the first quarter, a 28% drop from the $136.8bn registered during the same period last year, according to the FT. ETF flows: Which asset class saw the most inflows in January? Lyxor saw the weakest quarterly sales of any ETF house with outflows of $3.1bn, following just $2.7bn of ETF inflows over the whole of 2018. Head of Lyxor's ETF business Arnaud Llinas attributed the decline to "significant outflows" from EuroStoxx 50 ETFs in addition to country-specific products in France, Italy and Spain. Meanwhile, State Street saw net outflows of $1.8bn, w...

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