Photo Source: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst. U.S. President Donald Trump meets with China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 4, 2019.
For the first month in three, investors were net redeemers of mutual fund assets, withdrawing $7.4 billion from the conventional funds business (excluding ETFs, which are reviewed in the section below) for March. Investors remained cautiously optimistic the trade talks between the U.S. and China were progressing, but they were taken aback early in the month by a disappointing February nonfarm payrolls report. For the second