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Main highlights in the Statistical Release are: The combined assets of the investment fund market in Europe, i.e. the market for UCITS and other nationally regulated types of investment funds, rose by 6% during the first quarter of 2004 to cross for the first time the five trillion-threshold of assets under management.
Total assets in the UCITS market increased by 6.5% during the first quarter of 2004. Growth was driven by equity fund assets, which increased by 8.6%. This represented 47% of the total net asset increase. Investor demand for equity funds, which started to pick up in the second quarter of 2003, continued to support asset growth at a steady pace.
Quarterly statistical release
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