Asset Management

Fund managers hit by first quarterly outflows since 2016

Fund managers look to be suffering as macroeconomic fears weigh on investors' minds

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A bear statue stands outside the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany Photo: Getty Images

The world’s biggest investors pulled substantial sums away from mainstream fund managers in the second quarter of 2018 — the first time that has happened since 2016.

The gloomy numbers come amid a slew of bad news for global markets: from US President Donald Trump’s hostility on trade, to the tumbling of emerging market currencies in the wake of Turkey’s crisis, to jitters over the prospect of a chaotic UK exit from the European Union.

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