Investment Grade Weekly
CAM Investment Grade Weekly Insights
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of April 26-May 2 were positive, with an inflow of $2.6 billion. According to data analyzed by Wells Fargo, IG funds have garnered $59.1 billion in net inflows YTD. According to Bloomberg, $21.775bn in new corporate debt priced during the week. […]
CAM Investment Grade Weekly Insights
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of April 19-April 25 were positive, with an inflow of $3.5bn, driven primarily by ETFs, which posted their largest net inflow in over a year. According to data analyzed by Wells Fargo, IG funds have garnered $56.4 billion in net inflows […]
CAM Investment Grade Weekly Insights
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of April 12-April 18 were negative, posting an outflow of $1.2bn. According to data analyzed by Wells Fargo, IG funds have garnered $53 billion in net inflows YTD, which is less than half the amount of net inflows recorded in the […]
CAM Investment Grade Weekly Insights
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of March 15-March 21 were a positive $167 million, though flows have slowed now for four consecutive weeks. The data analyzed by wells shows that longer duration funds are gathering flows at the expense of shorter duration funds. This is in […]
Investment Grade Weekly 03/09/2018
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of March 1-March 7 were a positive $577 million. This is in contrast to Lipper data, where IG saw its second outflow YTD with an exodus of $740 million from IG funds. HY outflows continue, and now there have been 8 consecutive […]
Investment Grade Weekly 02/12/2018
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of February 1-February 7 were $4.0 billion. While IG flows remain resilient, the front end of the curve has benefitted at the expense of longer duration flows with $3.7 billion this week going to intermediate funds and $1.4 billion going to short […]
Investment Grade Weekly 01/26/2018
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of January 18-January 24 were $3.6 billion, the second largest in the last 2 months. This comes on the heels of a $5.1 billion inflow the week prior, which was the largest in the past 3 months. Note that these are total […]
Investment Grade Weekly Insight 01/12/2018
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of January 4-January 10 were $5.1 billion, the largest inflow in over 3 months. Note that these are total flows across four investment strategies: Short, Intermediate, Long and Total Return. Per Bloomberg, investment grade corporate issuance for the week through January […]
Investment Grade Weekly Insights 01/05/2018
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows for the week of December 28-January 3 were $3.0 billion, the largest inflow in six weeks. Per Bloomberg, investment grade corporate issuance for the week through January 4 was $21.05bln. As of today, the Bloomberg Barclays US IG Corporate Bond Index is trading at […]
Investment Grade Weekly Insight 12/08/2017
Fund Flows & Issuance: According to Wells Fargo, IG fund flows on the week were $1.357bln. This brings the YTD total to +$318.643bln in total inflows into the investment grade markets. IG fund flows remain on pace for the strongest year on record. Per Goldman Sachs, year-to-date cumulative inflows into IG mutual funds account for […]