Turns out, equity investing is alive and well, depending on where you look. [January is ‘Barnburner Month for Stock ETF Buying]
Tale of the tape: Cumulative Equity Net Inflows since June 2006
Sources: Investment Company Institute, Bloomberg, WisdomTree. Data as of September 30, 2012. Excludes exchange-traded notes, money market and hybrid funds4.
Jonathan Steinberg is the chief executive of WisdomTree. This post was republished with permission from the WisdomTree blog.
1Source: Popper, Nathaniel, “Investors Seek Out Safer Shores,” The New York Times, August 6, 2012.
2Sources: Investment Company Institute, Bloomberg, WisdomTree.
3Sources: Investment Company Institute, Bloomberg, WisdomTree.
4Hybrid funds: A category of mutual fund that is characterized by portfolios that are made up of a mix of stocks and bonds, which can vary proportionally over time or remain fixed.