Investors looking beyond US scoop-up Asian funds


SINGAPORE/BENGALURU: Investors have been selling U.S. shares and piling into Asian equity funds, as the Trump administration's tariffs cast a cloud over the U.S. growth outlook and whether years of world-beating gains in U.S. markets may be drawing to an end.

Net flows into exchange-traded equity funds that invest in Asia totalled $8.45 billion for the three weeks ended May 7, the highest in about seven months, LSEG Lipper data covering 844 funds listed globally showed.

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