The U.S. and European equity funds witnessed $12.9 billion
and $660 million worth of net disposals; however, Asian funds
drew a net $1.35 billion worth of inflows.
The healthcare, tech and utilities sector funds booked $1.1
billion, $538 million and $450 million worth of outflows,
respectively. Still, industrials drew $560 million in inflows.
At the same time, low-risk money market funds obtained
$51.36 billion in net purchases, the most since Jan. 4.
Meanwhile, global bond funds accumulated $6.83 billion worth
of inflows, compared with just $1.46 billion worth of net
purchase in the previous week.
Government bond funds attracted $4.38 billion and corporate
bond funds secured $3.56 billion with outflows from high-yield
funds easing to a three-week low of $1.74 billion.
Data showed commodity funds lost $1.3 billion in outflows in
their first weekly net selling in six weeks, with precious metal
funds and energy funds recording $527 million and $281 million
worth of outgo, respectively.
Data for 23,732 emerging market funds showed equity funds
drew an eighth weekly inflow, worth $1.56 billion, but bond
funds remained out of favour for the third week with $924
million in outflows.
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(Reporting by Gaurav Dogra and Patturaja Murugaboopathy in
Bengaluru;
Editing by Christina Fincher)
March 3 (Reuters) - Global equity funds suffered their
biggest weekly net selling in two months in the seven days to
March 1 as global stocks fell after strong U.S. economic data
stoked fears about further rises in interest rates.
The MSCI's All-World index of global shares dipped 2.64% last week to record its worst week since Sept. 23
on worries about Federal Reserve rate hikes as data showed
robust U.S. personal consumption and spending in January.
Global equities, however, recovered some lost ground on
Friday after Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael Bostic
said he favoured "slow and steady" quarter-point U.S. rate
increases to limit risk to the economy.
Data from Refinitiv Lipper showed global equity funds saw a
net $13 billion worth of outflows in the week to March 1, the
biggest amount since Jan. 4.
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