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The main developments can be summarized as follows:

Investment fund assets worldwide increased by 4.4 percent to EUR 45.65 trillion ($53tn) at end Q2 2018. In U.S. dollar terms, due to the appreciation of the US dollar, worldwide investment fund assets decreased by 1.3 percent to stand at USD 53.22 trillion at end Q2 2018.

Net cash inflows into funds worldwide amounted to EUR 190 billion, down from EUR 502 billion in Q1 2018. Net inflows reached EUR 29 billion in Europe, compared to EUR 113 billion in the United States.

Long-term funds (all funds excluding money market funds) recorded net inflows of EUR 159 billion, compared to EUR 491 billion in Q1 2018.

Equity funds attracted net sales of EUR 36 billion, down from EUR 217 billion in Q1 2018.

Bond funds posted net sales of EUR 60 billion, down from EUR 119 billion in Q1 2018.

Balanced/mixed funds registered net sales of EUR 23 billion, down from EUR 89 billion in Q1 2018.

Money market funds registered net sales of EUR 31 billion, up from EUR 11 billion in Q1 2018.

At the end of the second quarter of 2018, assets of equity and bond funds represented 42.1 percent and 20.2 percent of worldwide investment fund assets, respectively. Of the remaining assets, money market funds represented 11.2 percent and the asset share of balanced/mixed funds was 17.4 percent.

The market shares of the ten largest countries/regions in the world market were the United States (46.3%), Europe (34.0%), Australia (3.9%), China (3.4%), Japan (3.4%), Brazil (3.3%), Canada (3.2%), Rep. of Korea (0.9%), India (0.6%) and South Africa (0.4%).