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EPFR Global

EPFR Global, a subsidiary of Informa plc (LSE: INF), provides fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world. The company tracks both traditional and alternative funds domiciled globally with $17 trillion in total assets and delivers information on institutional and individual investor flows and fund manager allocations driving global markets.

Government bond funds, emerging market equity funds lose favor

By EPFR Global | September 8, 2012

With the summer holidays largely behind, investors spent the first five days of September chasing yield, re-positioning their fixed income allocations and responding to the latest export numbers from Asia.

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