Chart Of The Day: Bonds Keep Falling

Summary It’s been a lousy year for bond investors, but bond fund buyers are plowing the most money into bond ETFs and mutual funds since at least 2010. The MoneyShow Chart of the Day shows a whopping $625 billion flowed into bond funds in the year through August - even as the iShares Core US Aggregate Bond ETF has lost 4% year-to-date and the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has dropped 6.9%. Considering many investors chase performance - or flee from the lack of it - the numbers are pretty remarkable. Jitalia17/E+ via Getty Images By Mike Larson It’s been a lousy year for bond investors. But someone forgot to tell bond fund buyers! They’re plowing the most money into bond ETFs and mutual funds since at least 2010. Take This article was written by MoneyShow 2.69K Followers Follow MoneyShow — an industry pioneer in investor education since 1981 — is a global, financial media company, operating the world's leading investment and trading conferences. Each show brings together thousands of investors to attend workshops, presentations and seminars given by the nation's top financial experts. The company also offers exclusive seminars-at-sea, with the investment industry's leading partners. In addition, MoneyShow operates the award-winning, multimedia online community, Moneyshow.com and publishes free Investing and Trading newsletters, which provide individual investors with exclusive ongoing access to the latest investment and trading ideas from the nation's most respected and trusted financial newsletter advisors.