Russia is the leading market for BRIC portfolio investments this year, according to EPFR Global.
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Investors are turning primarily to Asian markets, judging by investor flow tracked by EPFR Global.
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That outflow continued in the week ending December 1, according to a report from EPFR Global analysts.
Of the 10 sectors tracked by EPFR Global, seven of them saw continued inflows this past week.
This past week, U.S. stock funds posted their biggest inflows in a decade, according to fund tracker EPFR Global.
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Investors have poured money into Japan equity funds in 10 of the last 12 weeks, according to EPFR Global.
For Latin America focused funds, Brazil slipped from 65 percent of the weighting to 56.6 percent, according to EPFR Global.
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Instead, investors are withdrawing from money-market funds, which are often used as a parking spot for cash, according to EPFR Global.
Out of all the BRICs this month, Russia is the No. 1 destination for equity and bond inflows according to EPFR Global.
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But individuals also have been moving in recently, according to EPFR Global.
This week, EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass. said retail investors, who tend to buy into mutual funds, have been returning to equities.
Many emerging markets, especially those in Asia, may be more insulated from the European crisis than investors think, says Brad Durham, managing director of EPFR Global.
Portfolio flow into the big four emerging markets was on the rise again last week, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking firm in Cambridge, Mass.
Global funds tracked by EPFR pulled money out of the Philippines' stock market in May for the first time in 2012, as the euro zone's debt crisis worsened.
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Foreign investment flows into emerging market stocks and bond funds slowed in the week to March 7, according to EPFR Global, a fund tracking service in Cambridge, Mass.
Since then, foreign money managers have sold their emerging market equity positions, but have remained relatively stable on fixed income, according to EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
But according to the fund tracking firm EPFR Global, while most style of funds saw outflows in the first week of February, three types of funds registered inflows.
Fixed income fund managers piled into local currency debt of the big emerging markets for the third straight week, according to fund trackers at EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
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Overall, emerging markets, dominated by the BRIC countries, saw bigger equity investment inflows than developed markets for the first time this year, according to EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
That is particularly true of Germany, whose exporters have seen their currency appreciate to a three year high versus that of their Japanese competitors, EPFR said in a press release today.
Equity mutual fund inflows tracked by Cambridge, Mass based EPFR Global hit a five-year high during the first full week of January as retail commitments hit their highest level since 2009.
Although the biggest chunk of those outflows came from a single gold ETF (guess which one), well over half the gold funds tracked by EPFR Global failed to take in fresh money.
Investors in gold-based mutual funds and ETFs like the SPDR Gold (GLD) continued their slide into the abyss last month, according to fund trackers at EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
The week ending February 27 saw EPFR global-tracked bond funds outpace equity fund flows by the biggest margin in 14 weeks as retail investors pulled money out of the latter for the first time this year.
Retail flows into equity funds were positive for the fourth week running, keeping them on course for the strongest start to a year since the beginning of 2006, fund tracking firm EPFR Global said Friday.
According to EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
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Last week, Cambridge, Mass based fund trackers at EPFR Global said that Brazil as a weighting in emerging market portfolios has gone from 16.7 percent in 2009 to 11.6 percent in November 2012, its lowest weighting since 2005.
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Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa all saw inflows into their government bonds in the seven days ending June 22, while the combined US and Canadian bond markets saw outflows, according to EPFR Global in Cambridge, Mass.
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