'..A large chunk of the outflows over the week ended August 21 came from the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Investors withdrew $10.27 billion from the exchange-traded fund, which tracks the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 stock index...' (= ein einziger ETF verantwortet nahezu den gesamten Outflow)
Outflows from ETFs accounted for the total withdrawals from stock funds in the latest week. Investors withdrew $11.4 billion from stock ETFs, the most in nearly two years. Stock mutual funds, meanwhile, took in $2.05 billion, down modestly from inflows of $2.56 billion the prior week.
The big outflows from stock ETFs led to the overall outflow of roughly $9.4 billion from stock funds, which also marked the first outflow from stock funds in eight weeks.
ETFs are generally believed to represent the investment behavior of institutional investors, while mutual funds are thought to represent the retail investor (= Dumb wäre demnach weiter am kaufen).
Funds that hold European stocks attracted $1.08 billion in new cash, however, marking the biggest inflow to the funds in 10 weeks. The funds were popular even as the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares fell 2.63 over the week.
Investors have settled on the idea that European stocks' "worst days are behind them," Tjornehoj said in reference to signs that the euro zone debt crisis has improved.
Funds that hold Japanese stocks, which had inflows for 28 straight weeks at the end of 2012 and into 2013, had their fourth straight week of outflows in the latest reporting period. Investors pulled $401.9 million from the funds, the most since early June.
Both inflation-protected bond funds and riskier high-yield junk bond funds had the biggest outflows in eight weeks over the latest period.
Funds that hold floating-rate bank loans still attracted $1.8 billion in the latest week, up modestly from the prior week's inflows. Investors have poured $45.5 billion into the funds this year...'
www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/23/...er-idUSBRE97L15920130823
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