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Business News/ Market / Stock-market-news/  Fund investors pull $56 billion in biggest exit since 2008
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Fund investors pull $56 billion in biggest exit since 2008

The exit from funds came as stocks have plunged on fears of a slowing global economy and President Donald Trump's criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell

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Investors are bailing out of mutual funds as if it were 2008.

Mutual funds suffered redemptions of $56.2 billion in the week ended 19 December. That’s the biggest outflow since the week ended 15 October 2008, according to data released on Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. And the numbers over the last several weeks have only gotten worse as the chart below shows.

Yet even as investors were dumping mutual funds last week, they added $25.2 billion to exchange-traded funds. And a group of optimists — corporate insiders — have stepped up their buying over the past two months.

The exit from funds came as stocks have plunged on fears of a slowing global economy and President Donald Trump’s criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The S&P 500 index lost 5.4% in the week ended 19 December.

Here’s the breakdown of the funds investors pulled money from:

Pointing to the flow of money into ETFs, ICI Chief Economist Sean Collins said in a statement that it reinforced the view that “some investors view periods of volatility as a buying opportunity."

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Published: 27 Dec 2018, 12:24 AM IST
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