Thomson Reuters

Despite the looming decision by the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates for the first time this year, investors pushed the broad-based indices to new highs in four of the five trading days during the flows week ended Wednesday, December 14, 2016. Markets continued their post-election ascent, with one minor setback, as the Federal Open Market Committee raised its prime lending rate 25 basis points as expected and forecasted three more hikes in 2017, compared to the two that had been anticipated at its September meeting.
 

The European mutual funds industry enjoyed overall net inflows of €38.1bn into long-term mutual funds for June 2014, which drove up the net inflows for the first half of 2014 to €244.1bn. The net inflows for June were driven mainly by flows into bond funds (+€19.2bn), followed by
mixed-asset funds (+€12.1bn) and equity products (+ €6.0bn). Also, property products (+€0.8bn) as well as alternative/hedge funds (+€0.5bn) saw net inflows, while commodity funds (-€0.001bn) and funds from the “other” peer group (-€0.5bn) faced outflows.