Industry flows improved last week thanks to rising stock fund flows, despite worsening flows for fixed income and commodities, according to the latest data from the folks at a mutual fund industry trade group.

Today, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) team reports that an estimated $34.782 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended February 18, 2026*. That's up by $11.013 billion week-over-week from the week ended on February 11** and brings the industry's inflows streak to six weeks and counting.

Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $1.192 billion in net outflows in the week ended February 18, according to the ICI folks, down by $10.099 billion W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $35.974 billion in net inflows last week, down by $4.402 billion W/W.

Bond funds led the way for a fifth consecutive week. Per ICI's data, fixed income funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $22.937 billion in net inflows for the week ended February 18 (down by $3.212 billion W/W). $20.944 billion of that (down by $1.58 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $1.993 billion (down by $1.632 billion W/W) flowed into municipal bond funds and muni ETFs.

The ICI team reports that equity funds and ETFs brought in an esetimated $14.637 billion in net inflows in the week ended February 18 (up by $11.013 billion W/W), their sixth week of inflows in a row. Domestic equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $5.418 billion in net inflows (up by $9.411 billion W/W), while world equity ETFs and funds brought in $9.22 billion in net inflows (up by $1.602 billion W/W).

On the flip side, hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $443 million in net outflows for the week ended February 18. That's down by $768 million W/W.

Commodity funds (well, ETFs) suffered an estimated $2.349 billion in net outflows for the week ended February 18, breaking a five-week inflows streak. Their net flows fell by $2.872 billion W/W.

*Money-market funds and funds of funds, as well as non-'40-Act asset management products like collective trusts and separate accounts, are not included.

**Editor's Note: The ICI folks note that they also regularly revise the past weeks' flows data, "because of adjustments, reclassifications, and changes in the number of funds reporting." Thus, the week-to-week flows changes may not quite line up perfectly with the numbers in MFWire's coverage of prior weeks' flows. 

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