With many pundits suggesting that a major market drop-off is just around the corner, the newest edition of financial and market trend research from Cerulli offers a glimpse at the frightening and exciting year ahead.
On the upside, the January 2013 edition of The Cerulli Edge also shows some massive movement in the mutual fund and ETF space, providing some ripe opportunities for advisors and investors as other market instabillity begins to grow.
According to Cerulli's research, mutual fund assets increased 16.3 percent in 2012 and provided almost three times as much as their 2011 flows – a huge jump from $97.8 billion to $269 billion. Taxable bonds also showed a respectable but somewhat contained level of flows with $266 billion in traffic overall, including $50.1 billion in municipal bonds and $21.3 billion in balanced asset classes.
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