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Fund Investors Pull $56 Billion in Biggest Exit Since 2008

By Charles Stein    

‎December‎ ‎26‎, ‎2018‎ ‎9‎:‎23‎ ‎AM Updated on ‎December‎ ‎26‎, ‎2018‎ ‎10‎:‎44‎ ‎AM 

Investors are bailing out of mutual funds as if it were 2008.

Mutual funds suffered redemptions of $56.2 billion in the week ended Dec. 19. That’s the biggest outflow since the week ended Oct. 15, 2008, according to data released Wednesday by the Investment Company Institute. And the numbers over the last several weeks have only gotten worse as the chart below shows.

Outflows Accelerate

Weekly redemptions for stock and bond funds surge

Source: Investment Company Institute

Yet even as investors were dumping mutual funds last week, they added $25.2 billion to exchange-traded funds. And a group of optimists -- corporate insiders -- have stepped up their buying over the past two months