EFAMA: European investment fund net assets recorded small decline in first quarter

06 June 2018

EFAMA published its latest Quarterly Statistical Release describing the trends in the European investment fund industry in the first quarter of 2018 with key data and indicators for each EFAMA member countries.

Net sales of UCITS and AIFs reached EUR 222 billion, compared to EUR 189 billion in Q4 2017.  Net sales of equity and multi-asset funds continued to increase during the first quarter, whereas net sales of bond funds fell sharply.
 

• UCITS registered net sales of EUR 171 billion, compared to EUR 170 billion in Q4 2017.
   
• Long-term UCITS, i.e UCITS excluding money market funds, recorded the same amount of net sales as in Q4 2017 (EUR 173 billion). Equity funds enjoyed the highest level of net sales (EUR 85 billion), followed by multi-asset funds (EUR 58) and bond funds (EUR 27 billion).
• Net sales of UCITS money market funds recorded net outflows of EUR 2 billion, compared to net outflows of EUR 3 billion in Q4 2017.
• AIFs net sales amounted to EUR 51 billion, up from EUR 19 billion in Q4 2017. Net sales of equity funds turned negative (EUR 2 billion), whereas bond funds continued to record net outflows, albeit lower than during the last quarter of 2017 (EUR 4 billion, compared to EUR 37 billion).
• Total European investment fund net assets decreased by 0.5% to EUR 15,541 billion at end March 2018. Net assets of UCITS dropped by 0.6% to EUR 9,669 billion and net assets of AIFs decreased 0.4% to EUR 5.872.

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