HONG KONG, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Money market funds saw net inflows in the week to Dec. 9 for the third time in the last 20 weeks, though investors kept sending money to emerging market equities and global bond funds, EPFR Global said on Friday.
Emerging market stock funds have seen inflows of $75 billion so far this year, contrasting with the $83 billion redeemed from combined developed market equity funds, the fund tracker said in a report.
The continued flows into stocks and bonds this late in the year, even with a rise in risk aversion associated with Dubai World's debt woes, suggest investors are sticking with diversification strategies and hunting for opportunities to buy on dips.
Equity funds globally took in a net $2.57 billion during the week, for cumulative flows so far this year of $18 billion, the most since 2006. Bond funds absorbed $5.07 billion, adding to what is already a record-setting $145 billion this year.
U.S. EQUITY FUNDS: The fund group posted its third straight week of modest outflows, surrendering a net $885 million, with flows into U.S. Small Cap ETFs offset by redemptions from actively managed U.S. Large Cap and US Mid Cap Funds.
EUROPEAN EQUITY FUNDS: European stock funds, which absorbed over $2 billion the previous week, ended the week posting negligible outflows of $8 million. Year to date, they are sitting on modest inflows of $2.8 billion, just 0.4 percent of their total assets.
JAPAN EQUITY FUNDS: Japanese stock funds saw the first week of inflows since early September, with these funds absorbing $85 million. Year to date, investors have pulled $5.8 billion from Japan equity funds, on top of the $26 billion removed from these funds in the previous two years.
EMERGING MARKET EQUITY FUNDS: Global emerging market equity funds have now attracted $75.4 billion this year, well above a record $54 billion in 2007.
BRIC-focused equity funds extended their inflow streak to 13 consecutive weeks.
MONEY MARKET FUNDS: These funds recorded inflows of $480 million for the week as an eight week outflow streak came to an end. Year to date investors have removed a record $456 billion from these funds.
GLOBAL BOND FUNDS: This fund group extended its record inflows by absorbing another $1.32 billion and increased the inflow streak to 35 straight weeks. Year to date these funds have received $31.2 billion. (Reporting by Kevin Plumberg; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)