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By Ben Baden
Year-to-date, Germany stock funds have seen inflows of more than $15 billion
So far this year, investors have dumped more than $15 billion into German stock funds, according to EPFR. And $3 billion of those inflows came in just the last week, ending July 27. Meanwhile, U.S. stock funds have only seen only $5.5 billion in inflows year-to-date. That's a sharp drop from the beginning of May when cumulative net flows for the year peaked in the neighborhood of $35 billion, says Cameron Brandt, director of research at EPFR. "U.S. equities had a very strong start to the year ... and that has eroded very rapidly," Brandt says. "And the money really seems to have switched into German equity funds."
That's because Germany, while still potentially exposed to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis in some of the peripheral countries like Greece, has the strongest economy in the
However, the movement may only be temporary. Brandt notes that most of the recent flood of money has been invested in passively managed
Going forward, Brandt says this may only be a short-term phenomenon as
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