EFAMA: UCITS net sales growth reached record level in January 2017

31 March 2017

The European Fund and Asset Management Association has published its latest Investment Funds Industry Fact Sheet, which provides net sales of UCITS and non-UCITS for January 2017. 28 associations provided EFAMA with net sales data.

The main developments in January 2017 can be summarized as follows:

• Net flows into UCITS and AIF totaled EUR 92 billion, compared to EUR 32 billion in December 2016.
• UCITS registered net inflows of EUR 71 billion, up from EUR 22 billion in December 2016.
  • Long-term UCITS (UCITS excluding money market funds) recorded net inflows of EUR 40 billion, compared to EUR 18 billion in December.
    • Equity funds recorded net sales of EUR 6 billion, compared to EUR 9 billion in December.
    • Bond funds recorded net sales of EUR 20 billion, up from EUR 6 billion in December. 
    • Net sales of multi-asset funds increased from EUR 1 billion in December to EUR 10 billion in January.
  • UCITS money market funds recorded net sales of EUR 31 billion, up from EUR 3 billion in December 2016.
• AIF recorded net inflows of EUR 21 billion, up from EUR 11 billion in December 2016.  
• Total net assets of European investment funds increased to EUR 14,342 billion at end January, compared to EUR 14,201 at end 2016. 

Bernard Delbecque, Senior director for Economics and Research at EFAMA commented: “Net sales of UCITS reached a level never reached since May 2016, thanks to strong demand for both long-term and money market funds.”

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