Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows for May 2018

Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund and ETF Asset Flows for May 2018

CHICAGO, June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) asset flows for May 2018. In May, investors placed $29.1 billion into U.S. equity passive funds, compared with $18.2 billion in the previous month. On the active front, investors pulled $8.4 billion, compared with $11.4 billion in April. Morningstar estimates net flow for mutual funds by computing the change in assets not explained by the performance of the fund and net flow for ETFs by computing the change in shares outstanding.

Morningstar's report about U.S. asset flows for May 2018 is available here. Highlights from the report include:

• U.S. equity was the leading asset class in May, collecting an estimated $20.7 billion in net inflows in May 2018, and its strongest month since December 2016. Taxable-bond funds followed with $14.4 billion in inflows, down from April's $25.3 billion.
• Even though passive funds continued to outpace active funds, market-cap-weighted passive funds have taken in far more than factor-based passive strategies. During the past 12 months, $130.0 billion went to non-strategic-beta U.S. equity funds, which are mostly market-cap weighted index funds, while about $44.0 billion went to strategic-beta funds.
• The Morningstar Categories with the highest inflows in May were large-blend, foreign large-blend, and large-growth funds, with respective inflows of $9.9 billion, $8.8 billion, and $6.5 billion. Notably for large-growth funds, it was the group's first significant inflows since December 2015 and the category's greatest monthly inflows in at least a decade. On the bottom-flowing list in May, diversified emerging markets saw the most outflows of $2.7 billion followed by mid-cap value, with outflows of $2.5 billion.  
• Among top U.S. fund families, iShares/BlackRock led for the second consecutive month, with $14.9 billion in combined inflows and $13.1 billion coming from iShares alone. Vanguard followed with $10.7 billion.
• Among all U.S. open-end mutual funds and ETFs, iShares Core S&P 500 ETF had the highest inflows of $5.5 billion in May. World-allocation fund T. Rowe Price Real Assets was one of the only active funds among the top 10 funds, with inflows of $1.9 billion. On the bottom-flowing list in May, iShares MSCI Emerging Markets had the greatest outflows at $2.7 billion, followed by Fidelity Low-Priced Stock, Morningstar Analyst Rating™ of Silver, with $1.4 billion in outflows.

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