Morningstar Reports U.S. Mutual Fund Asset Flows for June 2014

CHICAGO, July 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported estimated U.S. mutual fund asset flows for June 2014. U.S. equity mutual funds suffered their second-consecutive month of outflows in June, as investors withdrew $8.3 billion, the category group's largest outflow in 18 months. Inflows to international-equity funds and taxable-bond funds more than offset the outflows for U.S. equity funds. In aggregate, investors added $24.0 billion to long-term mutual funds, helping assets reach $11.7 trillion, an increase of more than 40% from the peak before the financial crisis. Morningstar estimates net flow by computing the change in assets not explained by the performance of the fund. Click here for a full explanation of Morningstar's methodology.

Additional highlights from Morningstar's report about mutual fund flows in June:

• For the year to date through June, international-equity funds led all Morningstar category groups with inflows of $67.5 billion. Taxable-bond funds have collected $59.2 billion over the same period, a significant increase from inflows of $21.0 billion for all of 2013. U.S. equity funds have gathered assets of just $9.5 billion year to date through June.
• At the category level, foreign large-blend funds led all categories in June with inflows of $4.6 billion. Multisector bond funds led all taxable-bond categories in June, followed by intermediate-term bond, a category that was shunned in 2013. Meanwhile, bank-loan funds shed $3.1 billion in June for their third-consecutive month of outflows.
• With inflows of $7.7 billion year to date through June, Dodge & Cox is off to its strongest start since 2007. Dodge & Cox International Stock, Dodge & Cox Global Stock, and Dodge & Cox Income, which each hold a Morningstar Analyst Rating™ of Gold, saw healthy flows in June; the first two have ranked in the top-5 percentile of their respective Morningstar categories over the trailing 12 months.

To view the complete report, please visit http://www.global.morningstar.com/juneflows14. To view a video recapping June's U.S. asset flow trends, please visit http://bit.ly/june2014flows. For more information about Morningstar Asset Flows, please visit http://global.morningstar.com/assetflows. 

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