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Mutual fund assets under management grew 16% in a year
TORONTO – Canadian mutual funds investors continued to favour balanced funds in October, according to the Investment Funds Institute of Canada.
IFIC says the industry’s overall net sales last month totalled $2.55 billion, up from $1.7 billion in October 2013.
Net sales of balanced funds, which hold a variety of assets, were $2.27 billion, up from $2.095 billion a year ago.
Bond fund net sales in October were $363.5 million compared with net redemptions of $1.5 billion in the same month a year ago.
Equity fund net redemptions in October were lower at $229.2 million versus net sales of $1.202 billion year over year.
Mutual fund assets under management in October totalled $1.123 trillion, up 15.6 per cent from a year ago.
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