'GLD' & Junk Bonds Top Weekly Inflows

A strong week for stock markets fueled $8.2 billion in inflows into U.S.-listed exhange-traded funds in the week ending Thursday, Mar 3.

The world's largest ETF by assets, the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY | A-98), took the top spot in terms of inflows, with $1.8 billion. However, its take wasn't the most impressive.

GLD & Junk Bond Lead

That title belongs to the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD | A-100), with its $1.3 billion in inflows. Week after week this year, investors have plowed enormous sums into the safe-haven gold ETF, and the past week was no exception.

Also impressive were the inflows into the two largest junk bond ETFs, the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK | C-68) and the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG | B-68), of more than $1.1 billion each.

All told, U.S. fixed-income ETFs had inflows of $2.5 billion in the week, which, combined with the $1.6 billion into commodity ETFs and $4.2 billion into U.S. equity ETFs, provided the bulk of the flows in the period.

Short-Term Treasury ETFs Lose

However, it wasn't all good for bond funds. While risky junk ETFs were in favor, safe-haven Treasury ETFs―particularly those focused on short-term maturities―were big losers.

The iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF (SHV | A-97) and the PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Strategy ETF (MINT | B ) had outflows of $1.22 billion and $422 million, respectively.

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Disclaimer: All data is from FactSet, as of 6 a.m. Eastern time the date the article is published. Data is believed to be accurate; however, transient market data is often subject to subsequent revision and correction by the exchanges.