IVOL - Bank loan inflation protected funds attract new money: Lipper Refinitiv

For the fund-flows week ended Jan. 13, some investors veered to fixed-income securities that were either tied to inflation or adjust for rising yields, while others remained in search of yield, said Tom Roseen, head of Research Services at Refinitiv Lipper.For the flows week, investors injected net new money into taxable fixed income funds (+$9.0B, including ETFs) and municipal bonds (+2.6B).Continuing 2020's trend, corporate investment-grade debt funds attracted the biggest chunk of estimated net flows in the latest week, taking in $6.9B. Flexible funds and international & global debt funds came in next, drawing $1.6B and $634M, respectively, for the week.On the tax-exempt side, municipal bond funds (+$2.9B) attracted their third largest weekly net flows on record and largest since June 20, 2020. However, investors in search of yield pushed high-yield municipal debt funds to their largest weekly net inflows on record going back to 1992, when Lipper began tracking

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Bank loan, inflation protected funds attract new money: Lipper Refinitiv