Records Bonds: Flow-Tracker Epfr and Market Rallies

records bonds: According to analysts at Soci t G n rale, fund investors are already weighted heavily toward risky assets, noting that positions in equity and credit accounted for 64% of the investment pool covered by flow-tracker EPFR Global on a monthly basis, according to Market Watch. In other words, it isn't a case of cash being parked on the sidelines, stoking a fear of missing out, or FOMO, as the market rallies. There may be a good reason for that. Rather than being sidelined, investors are strongly weighted in risky assets in absolute terms, and at 90% of the maximum historical level, the analysts said, in a Wednesday note, illustrating the point in the charts below. Read Stock markets are ringing up records and bonds are rallying too The Nasdaq Composite COMP, 0.34% also returned to record territory Tuesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, 0.31% remains less than 1% below its all-time closing high from early October. Caption outside of wrapper for normal article images The S&P 500 SPX, 0.47% on Tuesday posted a record close, topping its previous Sept. 20 finish as the main U.S. equity benchmark completed a rapid round trip from a fourth-quarter selloff that had pushed it to the brink of a bear market in December. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.