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Thursday, January 22, 2026 ETF Flows Quadruple, Driving a $62B Turnaround The industry returned to positive flows last week, after only one week in the red, according to the latest data from the folks at a mutual fund industry trade group. Yesterday, the Investment Company Institute (ICI) team reported that an estimated $55.485 billion net flowed into ETFs and long-term, open-end mutual funds in the week ended January 14, 2026. (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.) That's up by $62.639 billion week-over-week from the week ended on January 7*. Traditional, long-term, open-end mutual funds suffered an estimated $17.14 billion in net outflows in the week ended January 14, according to the ICI folks, down by $6.205 billion W/W. Meanwhile, ETFs brought in an estimated $72.598 billion in net inflows, up by $56.434 billion W/W. Stock funds regained the lead last week. Per ICI's data, equity funds and ETFs brought in an estimated $30.916 billion in net inflows for the week ended January 14 (up by $61.884 billion W/W). $20.17 billion of that (up by $52.207 billion W/W) flowed into domestic equity funds and ETFs, while $10.747 billion (up by $9.678 billion W/W) flowed into world equity funds and ETFs. According to ICI, $23.085 billion net flowed into bond funds and ETFs in the week ended January 14 (down by $1.875 billion W/W). $19.095 billion of that (down by $3.181 billion W/W) flowed into taxable bond funds and ETFs, while $3.99 billion (up by $1.306 billion W/W) flowed into municipal bond funds and ETFs. Commodity funds (well, ETFs) brought in an estimated $2.723 billion in net inflows for the week ended January 14. That's up by $3.764 billion W/W. On the flip side, hybrid funds and ETFs suffered an estimated $1.267 billion in net outflows for the week ended January 14. That's up by $1.135 billion W/W. *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. Printed from: MFWire.com/story.asp?s=71988 Copyright 2026, InvestmentWires, Inc. All Rights Reserved |