Over the last five years, approximately 24 percent of domesticequityfunds, 22 percent of international equityfunds and 15 percent of fixed income funds merged or liquidated.
Data published by the Investment Company Institute shows that the amount of weekly estimated outflows from domesticequity mutual funds has decreased during four out of the past five weeks.
Instead, these investments would rely more heavily on active management--things like emerging market equity and debt funds, domestic high-yield bonds, small cap equities, real estate and private equity.