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# Global Bond ETF Inflows Doubled Last Month 

 

 

A BlackRock report shows surge of money into fixed-income funds.



 

 

 

 

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[By Gabe Alpert](/authors/gabe-alpert)

 Nov 13, 2023

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Exchange-traded fund investors doubled their bets on [bonds](https://www.etf.com/topics/bond) last month to take advantage of rising yields, even as the overall amount of cash flowing into ETFs worldwide stayed about the same, according to a new report from [BlackRock Inc](https://www.etf.com/topics/blackrock).

Inflows into [fixed-income](https://www.etf.com/topics/fixed-income) ETFs rose to $30 billion in October from $15.5 billion the previous month. [Globally](https://www.etf.com/topics/global), ETFs took in $66 billion in October, little changed from the previous two months. Inflows into stock ETFs fell 36%, to $34.3 billion from $52.7 billion in September.

The overwhelming majority—$29 billion—of fixed-income fund flows went to [U.S.](https://www.etf.com/topics/us) bond ETFs. [European](https://www.etf.com/topics/europe) bond funds gained less than $1 billion, while investors pulled $3.2 billion from [emerging-market](https://www.etf.com/topics/emerging-markets) debt ETFs, the largest monthly outflow since September 2022.

The total flows were little changed from this year’s previous months, which have averaged $37 billion into [stock](https://www.etf.com/topics/equity) ETFs and $26 billion into fixed income. Besides the shift from stocks to bonds, investors focused on U.S. bonds and shifted back toward longer-duration holdings.

## Bond ETF Flows

While short-term bond ETFs had more than double the inflows of longer-term ones in August and September, things shifted back in October, with long-terms pulling in $10 billion versus $13 billion for short-term. In the second quarter, long-duration bond ETFs took in several times more than short-term ones, so October’s shift may be a return to earlier patterns.

Investors liked corporate bond funds significantly less than [Treasuries](https://www.etf.com/topics/treasury). They pulled $4.6 billion from [investment-grade](https://www.etf.com/topics/investment-grade-bonds) corporate bond ETFs and $5 billion from high-yield corporate bond funds. Investment-grade U.S. corporate bond funds have lost $8 billion out of the $15 billion in inflows they gained through July.

European investment-grade corporate bond ETFs have managed to hold on to about $8 billion out of the $10 billion they had gathered through July.

*Contact Gabe Alpert at gabriel.alpert@etf.com*

 
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  Gabe Alpert is a former data reporter at etf.com with over seven years’ experience in financial journalism. He also previously contributed reporting…   [View Bio](/authors/gabe-alpert)

 



 

 


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