Commodities funds absorbed $35.9B this week. Flow imbalance hit 96.6 showing extreme buying pressure. Equities bled $19.5B as investors fled stocks for hard assets. The rotation accelerated sharply from three-month trends.
Japan hemorrhaged $24.1B this week. The outflow topped all regions by far. Flow imbalance collapsed to 1.9 indicating near-total selling. Yet Japan grabbed $62.8B inflows over three months showing this week reversed a longer trend.
The U.S. attracted $4.7B with 56.6 flow imbalance. South Korea pulled $859M scoring 73.3 imbalance. Taiwan added $646M. China lost $1.4B continuing its brutal quarter. The $97.4B three-month outflow dwarfed all other regions.
Emerging Markets Ex-China showed 99.8 flow imbalance. Investors cherry-picked non-China developing markets aggressively. Developed Europe lost $290M despite holding $19.0B in quarterly inflows.
Energy dominated with $940M inflows and 87.4 flow imbalance. Industrials grabbed $234M. Information Technology added $144M despite massive two-way flows totaling $4.9B.
Financials crashed losing $1.2B this week. Health Care bled $521M. Materials shed $495M. All three sectors showed flow imbalance below 25 indicating heavy selling pressure.
The three-month picture flipped completely. Industrials led with $24.1B. Energy grabbed $19.3B. Materials added $10.6B. Technology lost $5.3B over the quarter yet still attracted some flows this week.
Fixed Income attracted $5.1B showing defensive rotation. Asset Allocation funds grabbed $206M. Alternatives added $71M. Currency funds lost $26M.
Active strategies pulled $3.5B with 83.2 flow imbalance. Vanilla funds hemorrhaged $23.9B showing systematic index selling. Dividend strategies attracted $411M. Growth grabbed $381M. ESG lost $752M.
Over three months equities led with $393B despite this week's reversal. Fixed Income attracted $232B quarterly. The sharp weekly pivot into commodities and out of Japan signals rising inflation fears.
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