"Asset inflows" refers to the money or investments that are coming into a particular asset, such as stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. It typically means that people are investing or adding funds to that asset, which can indicate positive growth or increased interest in that investment.
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Leveraged loans or Senior Loans once an obscure area in Fixed Income space has seen real growth in
assets inflow in last couple of years.
Higher excess returns are followed by
net asset inflows; lower excess returns induce outflows.
Two of the funds that were launched in May were unconstrained bond funds, one of the more popular categories
for asset inflows in 2014.
At current rates
of asset inflows, it will not be long before index funds effectively control Corporate America and the corporations of many foreign countries.
Net
new asset inflows continued in the first quarter of 2014 when total client assets reached a record high of $ 2.31 trillion according to Charles Schwab's first quarter earnings release.
Excluding non-traditional bond funds and commodities, alternative mutual funds and ETFs gathered a total of $ 2.4 billion in January, bringing the total 12 - month haul to $ 18.7 billion, third of any category behind international equity and municipal bonds and 11.5 % of all
net asset inflows.