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ETF Inflow Streak Reaches $34.4 billion

EMERGING MARKETS
  • Exchange-traded funds that buy emerging market stocks and bonds recorded inflows for a 20th straight week. That's the longest sequence of weekly inflows in two years.
  • Last week, investors added just over $2 billion to U.S.-listed emerging market ETFs that invest across developing nations as well as those that target specific countries. This was almost identical to the previous week's rise, extending 2021 inflows to $17.5 billion.
    • Stock ETFs expanded by $1.71 billion.
    • Bond funds rose by $356.9 million.
    • China/Hong Kong had the biggest inflow, of $791.5 million, largely due to their weighting in iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets.
    • No country suffered significant outflows.
  • The market's top two developing-nation ETFs were the main beneficiaries of the inflows in the week ended March 19, suggesting broad appetite for risk. BlackRock's $78.7 billion iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, or IEMG, and the $78.3 billion Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF, known as VWO, attracted $973 million and $411 million, respectively.


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