Outflows from U.S. stock funds this year could surpass 2008’s record outflow of $96.7 billion, according to Morningstar’s latest fund flows report.
The asset class shed $14.1 billion in November, with growth-oriented funds hit hardest. Open-end taxable-bond funds and municipal-bond funds collected $17.9 billion and $5.2 billion, respectively.
Active equity funds with lower expenses have experienced slower outflows than higher-fee funds. Within the U.S.-stock broad asset class, funds with a Morningstar analyst rating of gold, silver, or bronze suffered slower rates of decline than neutral- or negative-rated funds.
The Morningstar’s report on November mutual fund flow also showed:
Intermediate-term bond funds gained $8.3 billion in new assets, to lead all Morningstar categories in terms of inflows for the sixth consecutive month.
Investors redeemed $3.6 billion from high-yield bond funds, a category that has seen inflows of $24.4 billion year to date. Bank-loan funds took in a net $1.8 billion in November to bring the year-to-date total to $9.2 billion.
Inflows to emerging-markets bond funds slowed to $882 million in November, but the category has taken in $20.0 billion for the year to date in 2012; it began the year with assets of just $46.3 billion.
Diversified emerging-markets were the only bright spot in the international-stock asset class, collecting inflows of more than $1.1 billion in November.
PIMCO took in $6.7 billion to lead all fund families in terms of November inflows. Year to date, Vanguard leads with net inflows of $86.2 billion.
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