Choppy market hasn’t halted flows into stock funds

Published February 20, 2014 7:46pm ET



NEW YORK (AP) — Hearts raced faster as stock markets around the world stumbled in January, but that didn’t stop investors from plugging more money into mutual funds.

For a seventh straight month, investors put more cash into mutual funds than they withdrew, according to Lipper. Funds that invest in a mix of U.S. stocks attracted $10.6 billion, for example. That was despite the worst start for the Standard & Poor’s 500 index since 2010.

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