Equity funds worldwide have reported an acceleration of fund inflows after the uncertainty about a second round of quantitative easing was lifted in the United States.
Investors committed US$15 billion in assets in the week to 10 November, which was the highest level of weekly investments since the second quarter of 2008, according to a report from research firm EPFR Global.
Investors also poured US$7.1 billion into money market funds.
"The fund flow taps opened after the US Federal Reserve spelled out its goals for a new round of quantitative easing," the report said.
EPFR's equity data tracks inflows into global equities, Japanese equities, western European equities, US equities and emerging market equities funds.
Flows into emerging market equity funds are on the verge of setting an all-time yearly inflow record, taking in a third of the US$15 billion in inflows.
Flows into US equity funds were strong, while European equity funds posted their seventh straight week of net inflows, the report said.
Inflows into the global commodity sector funds hit a 26-week high as the prices of gold and other commodities climbed.
But flows into US bond funds fell to a 22-week low as investors digested the prospect of another surge in sovereign issuance.
Overall bond funds still absorbed US$3.02 billion.
