Investment fund assets worldwide increased by 2.1 percent to €47 trillion at end Q3 2018, according to The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA).
The results were included in EFAMA’s latest International Statistical Release, which describes the developments in the worldwide investment fund industry during Q3 2018.
In US dollars, worldwide investment fund assets increased 1.5 percent to stand at $54 trillion at end Q3 2018.
Net inflows into funds worldwide amounted to €169 billion, down from €193 billion in Q2 2018.
Net inflows reached €50 billion in Europe, compared to €119 billion in the US and €35 billion in Japan.
Long-term funds (all funds excluding money market funds) recorded net inflows of €215 billion, compared to €162 billion in Q2 2018.
Equity funds recorded net sales of €83 billion, up from €38 billion in Q2 2018.
Japan recorded the largest net sales of equity (€36 billion), followed by Europe (€20 billion).
At the end of the third quarter of the year, assets of equity funds represented 42.7 percent and bond funds represented 19.9 percent of all investment fund assets worldwide.
Of the remaining assets, money market funds represented 11.1 percent and the asset share of balanced/mixed funds was 17.2 percent.
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