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Global debt flows The big mend continues Covid-19 effects so far centre on flight into short-end government bonds and equivalents, a measure of safety flight. At the same time there has been resumed risk-on in the guise of strong inflows to dollar high yield and corporates generally. The rot has been stopped in emerging markets, but no sign yet of a sustained material return inflow process, reflecting pressures still there. Also, inflation linked bonds globally are friendless as dis-inflation forces dominate. Graph of the week: Capitulation outflows in high yield Source: EPGR Global, ING estimates Seven things learnt from latest flows data 1) Following a dramatic emerging markets outflows process and large price falls as the Covid-19 crisis unfolded, there have been some resumed inflows seen in recent weeks. Most of this has been into hard currency product. 2) Retail remains a seller of EM local currency and was the biggest seller here when the pressure first built in March. There is evidence of flows back into Turkey and S Africa, but no clear evidence of inflows to Brazil; allocation there also remains down. 3) Not only was there a classic elevation in default risk in high yield as economies jumped to a recessionary state, but the collapse in the oil price was an additional stress factor in this space. Hence the prior outflows seen in high yield. 4) However fast forward to more recent weeks and there has been an implied re-rating of prospects in the high yield space, and in particular in the USD space where the prior stress was most elevated. 5) Too early to tell whether this is a sustainable inflow process, as default risk remains elevated and will become more acute beyond September when most of the Fed’s support facilities are due to be taken off the shelf. 6) There has been an increase in holding of short duration governments and money market funds, and an increase in corporate holdings right along the maturity spectrum, but especially in the medium-to-longer maturities. 7) Overall in the past three months there has been an increased in holdings of bonds generally, both governments and corporates. But holdings of inflation linked bonds are well down and remain down. -10.00 -5.00 0.00 5.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 Government Corporate Multi-Product Short end Belly Long end Total % AUM PAST QUARTER Padhraic Garvey Regional Head of Research, Americas ING Financial Markets LLC/ING Capital Markets LLC New York +1 646 424 7837 [email protected] View all our research on Bloomberg at RSEP INGX<GO> Note: The data in this report relies heavily on EPFR Global data and references the week ended Wednesday, 27 May 2020 Rates and Credit Economic & Financial Analysis 29 May 2020 Global Debt & Rates www.ing.com/THINK

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Global debt flows The big mend continues

Covid-19 effects so far centre on flight into short-end government bonds and equivalents, a measure of safety flight. At the same time there has been resumed risk-on in the guise of strong inflows to dollar high yield and corporates generally. The rot has been stopped in emerging markets, but no sign yet of a sustained material return inflow process, reflecting pressures still there. Also, inflation linked bonds globally are friendless as dis-inflation forces dominate.

Graph of the week: Capitulation outflows in high yield

Source: EPGR Global, ING estimates

Seven things learnt from latest flows data 1) Following a dramatic emerging markets outflows process and large price falls as the

Covid-19 crisis unfolded, there have been some resumed inflows seen in recent weeks. Most of this has been into hard currency product.

2) Retail remains a seller of EM local currency and was the biggest seller here when the pressure first built in March. There is evidence of flows back into Turkey and S Africa, but no clear evidence of inflows to Brazil; allocation there also remains down.

3) Not only was there a classic elevation in default risk in high yield as economies jumped to a recessionary state, but the collapse in the oil price was an additional stress factor in this space. Hence the prior outflows seen in high yield.

4) However fast forward to more recent weeks and there has been an implied re-rating of prospects in the high yield space, and in particular in the USD space where the prior stress was most elevated.

5) Too early to tell whether this is a sustainable inflow process, as default risk remains elevated and will become more acute beyond September when most of the Fed’s support facilities are due to be taken off the shelf.

6) There has been an increase in holding of short duration governments and money market funds, and an increase in corporate holdings right along the maturity spectrum, but especially in the medium-to-longer maturities.

7) Overall in the past three months there has been an increased in holdings of bonds generally, both governments and corporates. But holdings of inflation linked bonds are well down and remain down.

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Padhraic Garvey Regional Head of Research, Americas ING Financial Markets LLC/ING Capital Markets LLC New York +1 646 424 7837 [email protected] View all our research on Bloomberg at RSEP INGX<GO>

Note: The data in this report relies heavily on EPFR Global data and references the week ended Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Rates and Credit

Economic & Financial Analysis

29 May 2020

Global Debt & Rates

www.ing.com/THINK

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Contents

Global Manager (average) Allocations by Region 3

Emerging markets 4 Emerging Markets – Summary themes ........................................................................................... 5 Emerging market Fund Flows ............................................................................................................ 6 Global EM Manager Asset Allocations .............................................................................................. 7 Regional EM Manager Asset Allocation ........................................................................................... 8 Selected EMEA and Latam Country Flows ...................................................................................... 9 Selected Asia and ME/Africa Country Flows ................................................................................ 10

High Yield 11 High Yield – Summary themes ....................................................................................................... 12 EM (all currency) vs High Yield USD and EU ................................................................................. 13

Developed Markets 14 Developed Markets – Summary themes ...................................................................................... 15 Developed Markets Net Fund Flows............................................................................................... 16 Global DM Manager Asset Allocations .......................................................................................... 17 Developed Markets Country Flows ................................................................................................ 18

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Global Manager (average) Allocations by Region Fig 1 Global allocations for latest month (%) Fig 2 EM allocations for latest month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 3 EM detailed allocations for latest month (%) Fig 4 EMEA allocations for latest month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 5 Asia EM allocations for latest month (%) Fig 6 Latam allocations for latest month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 7 Developed allocations for latest month (%) Fig 8 Eurozone allocations for latest month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

North America, 48.5

Asia Ex-Japan, 3.0Developed Asia, 5.2

Latin America, 3.4

Developed Europe, 29.3

Emerging Europe, 2.4

Africa, …Middle East, 0.6

Other, 0.0 Cash, 3.9Africa, 8.0

Asia Ex-Japan, 22.6

Other, 1.3

Emerging Europe, 18.9

Middle East, 11.2

Latin America, 32.0

Brazil, 6.8

Mexico, 7.6

Indonesia, 7.5

Turkey, 3.4

Russia, 5.1

Colombia, 3.9South Africa, 3.7Poland, 2.0

Argentina, 1.1Malaysia, 2.3Hungary, 1.7Peru, 3.1

China, 4.4

Thailand, 2.1Romania, 1.1

Philippines, 1.6Kazakhstan, 0.9

India, 2.0Ukraine, 2.2

Chile, 2.9

Dom. Rep., 1.2

Korea (South), 0.5

Venezuela, 0.1

Panama, 1.3Srilanka, 0.5UAE, 3.0 Cash, 2.6

Turkey, 15.1

Russia, 23.1

South Africa, 16.7Poland, 8.9

Hungary, 7.6

Romania, 4.8

Kazakhstan, 4.2

Ukraine, 9.9

Croatia, 2.2

Serbia, 1.0Lithuania, 0.1

Slovenia, 0.0Azerbaijan, 2.1

Czechrepublic, 3.40.6

0.00.00.2 0.0Cash, 0.0

Indonesia, 33.6

Malaysia, 10.2

China, 20.0

Thailand, 9.3

Philippines, 7.1

India, 8.8

Korea (South), 2.0Srilanka, 2.4Hongkong, 1.7

Pakistan, 1.3Singapore, 1.8 Vietnam, 0.7Mongolia, 0.9 Bangladesh, 0.0

Taiwan, 0.1Cash, 3.3

Brazil, 21.9

Mexico, 24.5

Colombia, 12.6Argentina, 3.4

Peru, 9.9

Chile, 9.2

Dom. Rep., 3.8

Venezuela, 0.5Panama, 4.1

Uruguay, 2.2

Costa Rica, 1.0

Paraguay, 1.9

Jamaica, 0.9

Elsalvador, 1.2

Ecuador, 1.2Guatemala, 1.2 0.1 0.4 Cuba, 0.0Cash, 2.1

USA, 53.1

Euro, 20.6

UK, 8.3

Japan, 4.4Canada, 2.6Australia, 1.4

Sweden, 0.0Switzerland, 0.8Denmark, 0.3Newzealand, 0.0 Norway, 0.5 Cash, 4.5

France, 26.5

Germany, 15.3

Italy, 17.5

Netherlands, 11.9

Spain, 11.1

Belgium, 3.9

Austria, 0.9

Ireland, 4.2

Portugal, 1.0

Finland, 0.7 Greece, 1.00.1 0.0 0.0Slovakia, 0.0 Cash, 1.9

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Emerging Markets – Summary themes • Performance in emerging markets has improved. But the flows story is mixed.

Moderate inflows to hard currency has resumed in the past couple of weeks. However, outflows persist in local currency and blend funds. Not large outflows but outflows all the same.

• Things have clearly improved though. Emerging markets saw outflows of some 12% of assets under management through March/April. It’s been steady through the past couple of weeks, with inflows to hard currency funds broadly offsetting outflows from local currency and blends funds

• We find that retail have been the biggest sellers of local currency. And in fact, retail have liquidated some 20% of their holdings of local currency emerging market funds in the past 3 months (compared with a 10% liquidation in hard currency).

Fig 9 Feature Chart: Mixed flows in recent weeks, and performance has perked up

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

• Note that the blue line in the graph above is a catch-all for cumulative assets under management, in the sense that it captures not just the flows but also the change in valuations, including FX effects (all translated back to USD). The precipitous fall shown captures the outflows and falls in price. The subsequent rise is more about price than inflows, as these remains quite subdued overall.

• The past month has seen flows back into Turkey and S Africa, versus outflows from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Hungary in the EMEA sphere.

• In Latam, allocation to Colombia had fallen through to end April, but there have been resumed inflows in more recent weeks. Allocation to Brazil is also down, but no material inflows yet.

• In Asia, there were flows back into S Korea, Thailand and China in the past month.

• Most of Africa and Middle East have seen outflows in the past month, but that followed an increase in allocations there up to the end of April.

BOTTOM LINE: Following a dramatic outflows process and large price falls as the Covid-19 crisis unfolded, there have been resumed inflows seen in recent weeks. Most of this has been into hard currency product. Retail remains a seller of local currency and was the biggest seller in this space when the pressure first built in March. There is evidence of flows back into Turkey and S Africa, but no clear evidence of inflows to Brazil; allocation there also remains down. Outflows in EMEA in the past month have been from Russia and CIS plus Hungary. Colombia allocations had fallen, but now seeing inflows.

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Emerging market Fund Flows Fig 10 Change in the past week (%) Fig 11 Change in the past week (US$m)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 12 Change in the past month (%) Fig 13 Change in the past month (US$m)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 14 Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 15 Change in the past quarter (US$m)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 16 Change in the past year (%) Fig 17 Change in the past year (US$m)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

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-0.60

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EM Hard Currency Funds EM Local Currency Funds EM Blend Currency Funds Total EM

% AUM PAST WEEK

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Global EM Manager Asset Allocations Fig 18 GEM allocations for latest month (%) Fig 19 GEM detailed allocations for latest month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 20 GEM allocations one month ago (%) Fig 21 GEM detailed allocations one month ago (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 22 GEM allocations one quarter ago (%) Fig 23 GEM detailed allocations one quarter ago (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 24 GEM allocations one year ago (%) Fig 25 GEM detailed allocations one year ago (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Africa, 8.0

Asia Ex-Japan, 22.6

Other, 1.3

Emerging Europe, 18.9

Middle East, 11.2

Latin America, 32.0

Brazil, 6.8

Mexico, 7.6

Indonesia, 7.5

Turkey, 3.4

Russia, 5.1

Colombia, 3.9South Africa, 3.7Poland, 2.0

Argentina, 1.1Malaysia, 2.3Hungary, 1.7Peru, 3.1

China, 4.4

Thailand, 2.1Romania, 1.1

Philippines, 1.6Kazakhstan, 0.9

India, 2.0Ukraine, 2.2

Chile, 2.9

Dom. Rep., 1.2

Korea (South), 0.5

Venezuela, 0.1

Panama, 1.3Srilanka, 0.5UAE, 3.0 Cash, 2.6

Africa, 8.1

Asia Ex-Japan, 22.4

Other, 2.3

Emerging Europe, 19.4

Middle East, 10.2

Latin America, 32.1

Brazil, 7.2

Mexico, 7.2

Indonesia, 7.3

Turkey, 3.6

Russia, 5.1

Colombia, 4.3South Africa, 3.7Poland, 2.1

Argentina, 1.2Malaysia, 2.1Hungary, 1.7Peru, 2.8

China, 4.6

Thailand, 2.2Romania, 1.1

Philippines, 1.4Kazakhstan, 1.0

India, 1.9Ukraine, 2.2

Chile, 2.8

Dom. Rep., 1.2

Korea (South), 0.5

Venezuela, 0.2

Panama, 1.2Srilanka, 0.6UAE, 2.8 Cash, 2.6

Africa, 9.6

Asia Ex-Japan, 22.2

Other, 4.3

Emerging Europe, 19.0

Middle East, 10.4

Latin America, 33.4

Brazil, 7.2

Mexico, 8.1

Indonesia, 7.5

Turkey, 3.6

Russia, 5.2

Colombia, 4.4South Africa, 4.1Poland, 1.9Argentina, 1.5

Malaysia, 2.4Hungary, 1.6

Peru, 2.5

China, 4.1

Thailand, 1.9Romania, 1.2

Philippines, 1.3Kazakhstan, 0.9

India, 1.9Ukraine, 2.3

Chile, 2.8

Dom. Rep., 1.2

Korea (South), 0.4

Venezuela, 0.2

Panama, 1.0Srilanka, 0.8UAE, 2.8 Cash, 2.6

Africa, 9.1

Asia Ex-Japan, 22.2

Other, 13.3

Emerging Europe, 19.3

Middle East, 10.2

Latin America, 32.0

Brazil, 7.2

Mexico, 7.5

Indonesia, 7.7

Turkey, 3.7

Russia, 4.9

Colombia, 3.7South Africa, 4.2Poland, 2.8

Argentina, 2.3Malaysia, 2.4

Hungary, 1.7Peru, 2.9

China, 3.4

Thailand, 2.0Romania, 0.9

Philippines, 1.6Kazakhstan, 1.1

India, 2.0 Ukraine, 1.3

Chile, 2.6

Dom. Rep., 1.0

Korea (South), 0.4

Venezuela, 0.4

Panama, 0.8Srilanka, 0.8UAE, 2.7 Cash, 2.6

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Regional EM Manager Asset Allocation Fig 26 EMEA allocations for latest month (%) Fig 27 EMEA allocations for previous month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 28 Asia allocations for latest month (%) Fig 29 Asia allocations for previous month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 30 Latam allocations for latest month (%) Fig 31 Latam allocations for previous month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 32 Africa & ME allocations for latest month (%) Fig 33 Africa & ME allocations for previous month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Turkey, 15.1

Russia, 23.1

South Africa, 16.7Poland, 8.9

Hungary, 7.6

Romania, 4.8

Kazakhstan, 4.2

Ukraine, 9.9

Croatia, 2.2

Serbia, 1.0Lithuania, 0.1

Slovenia, 0.0Azerbaijan, 2.1

Czechrepublic, 3.40.6

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Turkey, 15.8

Russia, 22.4

South Africa, 16.2Poland, 9.5

Hungary, 7.5

Romania, 4.9

Kazakhstan, 4.2

Ukraine, 9.8

Croatia, 2.1

Serbia, 0.9

Lithuania, 0.4

Slovenia, 0.0Azerbaijan, 2.1

Czechrepublic, 3.30.6

0.00.00.2 0.0 Cash, 1.0

Indonesia, 33.6

Malaysia, 10.2

China, 20.0

Thailand, 9.3

Philippines, 7.1

India, 8.8

Korea (South), 2.0Srilanka, 2.4Hongkong, 1.7

Pakistan, 1.3Singapore, 1.8 Vietnam, 0.7Mongolia, 0.9 Bangladesh, 0.0

Taiwan, 0.1Cash, 3.3

Indonesia, 33.1

Malaysia, 9.4

China, 20.7

Thailand, 9.9

Philippines, 6.6

India, 8.8

Korea (South), 2.2Srilanka, 2.6Hongkong, 1.8

Pakistan, 1.5Singapore, 1.6Vietnam, 0.7

Mongolia, 0.9Bangladesh, 0.0

Taiwan, 0.1Cash, 2.9

Brazil, 21.9

Mexico, 24.5

Colombia, 12.6Argentina, 3.4

Peru, 9.9

Chile, 9.2

Dom. Rep., 3.8

Venezuela, 0.5Panama, 4.1

Uruguay, 2.2

Costa Rica, 1.0

Paraguay, 1.9

Jamaica, 0.9

Elsalvador, 1.2

Ecuador, 1.2Guatemala, 1.2 0.1 0.4 Cuba, 0.0Cash, 2.1

Brazil, 23.0

Mexico, 23.1

Colombia, 13.7

Argentina, 3.9

Peru, 8.9

Chile, 8.9

Dom. Rep., 3.8

Venezuela, 0.6Panama, 4.0

Uruguay, 2.2

Costa Rica, 1.1

Paraguay, 1.7

Jamaica, 1.0Elsalvador, 1.4

Ecuador, 1.3Guatemala, 0.9 0.10.3 Cuba, 0.0Cash, 0.9

UAE, 23.6

Israel, 8.7

Ivorycoast, 3.2Lebanon, 0.5

Ghana, 5.3Zambia, 0.6

Nigeria, 5.4Egypt, 11.5Kenya, 3.00, 0.0

Gabon, 1.5

Tunisia, 0.9

Namibia, 0.7

Iraq, 1.4Ethiopia, 0.5

Oman, 4.7

0.0Bahrain, 4.7

Rwanda, 0.6Jordan, 1.0

Saudi Arabia, 21.50.5

UAE, 22.8

Israel, 7.4

Ivorycoast, 3.7Lebanon, 0.7

Ghana, 5.1Zambia, 0.6

Nigeria, 5.3Egypt, 13.1

Kenya, 3.90, 0.0

Gabon, 1.3

Tunisia, 1.0

Namibia, 0.7

Iraq, 1.5Ethiopia, 0.5

Oman, 4.8

0.0Bahrain, 4.7

Rwanda, 0.6Jordan, 1.0

Saudi Arabia, 20.5 0.6

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Selected EMEA and Latam Country Flows Fig 34 EMEA – Change in the past week (%) Fig 35 EMEA – Change in the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 36 EMEA – Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 37 EMEA – Change in the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 38 Latam – Change in the past week (%) Fig 39 Latam – Change in the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 40 Latam – Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 41 Latam – Change in the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

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Czech

Hungary

Kazakhstan

Poland

Romania

Russia

S Africa

Turkey

Ukraine

Total (Selected EMEA)% AUM PAST WEEK

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Czech

Hungary

Kazakhstan

Poland

Romania

Russia

S Africa

Turkey

Ukraine

Total (Selected EMEA)% AUM PAST MONTH

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Hungary

Kazakhstan

Poland

Romania

Russia

S Africa

Turkey

Ukraine

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Hungary

Kazakhstan

Poland

Romania

Russia

S Africa

Turkey

Ukraine

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Argentina

Brazil

Colombia

Mexico

Peru

Venezuela

Total (SelectedLatam)

% AUM PAST WEEK

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Argentina

Brazil

Colombia

Mexico

Peru

Venezuela

Total (Selected Latam)

% AUM PAST MONTH

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Brazil

Colombia

Mexico

Peru

Venezuela

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% AUM PAST QUARTER

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Brazil

Colombia

Mexico

Peru

Venezuela

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% AUM PAST YEAR

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Selected Asia and ME/Africa Country Flows Fig 42 Asia – Change in the past week (%) Fig 43 Asia – Change in the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 44 Asia – Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 45 Asia – Change in the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 46 Middle East & Africa – In the past week (%) Fig 47 Middle East & Africa – In the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 48 Middle East & Africa – In the past quarter (%) Fig 49 Middle East & Africa – In the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

-0.2 -0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7

China

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Mongolia

Pakistan

Philippines

S Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

Total (Selected Asia EM)

% AUM PAST WEEK

-1 -0.5 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

China

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Mongolia

Pakistan

Philippines

S Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

Total (Selected Asia EM)% AUM PAST MONTH

-18 -16 -14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0

China

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Mongolia

Pakistan

Philippines

S Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

Total (Selected Asia EM)% AUM PAST QUARTER

-10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8

China

India

Indonesia

Malaysia

Mongolia

Pakistan

Philippines

S Korea

Thailand

Vietnam

Total (Selected Asia EM)

% AUM PAST YEAR

-0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2

BahrainEqyptIsrael

JordanKuwait

LebanonQatar

TunisiaUEA

Total (Selected ME & NA)Ivory Coast

NigeriaTotal (Selected Sub-Sahara)

% AUM PAST WEEK

-0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4

BahrainEqyptIsrael

JordanKuwait

LebanonQatar

TunisiaUEA

Total (Selected ME & NA)Ivory Coast

NigeriaTotal (Selected Sub-Sahara)

% AUM PAST MONTH

-12.0 -10.0 -8.0 -6.0 -4.0 -2.0 0.0

BahrainEqyptIsrael

JordanKuwait

LebanonQatar

TunisiaUEA

Total (Selected ME & NA)Ivory Coast

NigeriaTotal (Selected Sub-Sahara)

% AUM PAST QUARTER

-6.0 -4.0 -2.0 0.0 2.0

BahrainEqyptIsrael

JordanKuwait

LebanonQatar

TunisiaUEA

Total (Selected ME & NA)Ivory Coast

NigeriaTotal (Selected Sub-Sahara)

% AUM PAST YEAR

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High Yield

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High Yield – Summary themes • Inflows to USD high yield are particularly impressive. Assets under management

there have broadly recovered from the outflows seen at end March / April, now at broadly flat over the past three months. There was another 1.3% increase in assets under management in USD high yield in the past week.

• This contrasts with Western European high yield, where assets under management are still down some 10% relative to pre-crisis, and the inflows seen in the past week were an anaemic 0.2% of assets under management. A similar story obtains in respective primary market circumstances, which is also driving the flows story.

Fig 50 Feature Chart: Outflows morph to renewed inflows

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

• Note that the orange line in the graph above is a catch-all for cumulative assets under management, in the sense that it captures not just the flows but also the change in valuations, including FX effects (all translated back to USD). The precipitous fall shown captures the prior outflows and big build in discount to par. The subsequent rise is a reflection of USD inflows and price appreciation right across the high yield space.

BOTTOM LINE: Not only was there a classic elevation in default risk as economies jumped to a recessionary state, but the collapse in the oil price was an additional stress factor in this space. Hence the prior outflows. However fast forward to more recent weeks and there has been a clear re-rating of prospects in high yield, and in particular in the USD space where the prior stress was most elevated. Too early to tell whether this is a sustainable inflow process, as default risk remains elevated and will become more acute beyond September when most of the Fed’s support facilities are due to be taken off the shelf.

0

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$bn (weekly flow) $bn (cumulative AUM)USD High Yield

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EM (all currency) vs High Yield USD and EU Fig 51 Western Europe High Yield Weekly Flows

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 52 US High Yield Weekly Flows

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 53 Emerging Markets Weekly Flows – all currencies

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

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120

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1.5

EU High Yield Weekly Flow $bn (LHS) EU High Yield Cumulative AUM $bn (RHS)

$bn (weekly flow) $bn (cumulative AUM)W Europe High Yield (in $)

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US High Yield Weekly Flow $bn (LHS) US High Yield Cumulative AUM $bn (RHS)

$bn (weekly flow) $bn (cumulative AUM)USD High Yield

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$ mi l lion $bn (cumulative AUM)

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Developed Markets

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Developed Markets – Summary themes • Government bonds have seen moderate outflows in the past week. The dominant

flow in the past three months have been inflows though, but that needs to be qualified by maturity. Inflows have been heaviest in short maturities. The dominant flow for medium to longer maturities has in fact morphed into outflows.

• In contrast to recent outflows from governments, inflows to corporates continue. The past month has seen a 2.5% increase AUM in corporates. The bulk of the inflows have been into longer maturities, but there have been inflows right along the maturity spectrum. In fact, long end AUM is up some 20%.

Fig 54 Feature Chart: Biggest inflow into long end corporates and front end governments

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

• The flows in inflation linked funds space are worthy of attention. USD inflation linked bonds have seen inflows of some 2% of AUM in the past month, while EUR inflation funds have seen the polar opposite, a 2.2% outflow. And this continued for the latest week. Overall though, AUM in both USD and EUR inflation is down some 7-9% in the past 3 months, indicative of a disinflationary discount from the Covid-19 crisis.

• Inflows in the past month have been most pronounced into the likes of US, Denmark, Switzerland and Japan. In the Eurozone, the Netherlands and Ireland saw the largest proportional inflows. Allocation to the US remains elevated overall.

BOTTOM LINE: While the impact effect of the crisis was outflows from corporates and inflows to governments, that has been reversed in the past number of weeks. Inflows to longer maturity corporates has been quite marked. The net effect of these two effects has left an increase in holding of short duration governments and an increase in corporates right along the maturity spectrum, but especially in the medium-to-longer maturities. Overall in the past three months there has been an increase in holdings of bonds generally, both governments and corporates. But holdings of inflation linked bonds are well down and remain so. Meanwhile, money market funds in the US and Europe have seen good inflows in the past three months as a whole.

-10.00

-5.00

0.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

Government Corporate Multi-Product

Short end Belly Long end Total

% AUM PAST QUARTER

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Developed Markets Net Fund Flows Fig 55 Change in the past week (%) Fig 56 Change in the past week (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 57 Change in the past month (%) Fig 58 Change in the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 59 Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 60 Change in the past quarter (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 61 Change in the past year (%) Fig 62 Change in the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

-0.40

-0.20

0.00

0.20

0.40

0.60

0.80

1.00

1.20

1.40

Government Corporate Multi-Product

Short end Belly Long end Total

% AUM PAST WEEK

-1.00

-0.50

0.00

0.50

1.00

1.50

High Yield Inflation Money Markets

North America W Europe Total

% AUM PAST WEEK

-1.00-0.500.000.501.001.502.002.503.003.504.00

Government Corporate Multi-Product

Short end Belly Long end Total

% AUM PAST MONTH

-3.00

-2.00

-1.00

0.00

1.00

2.00

3.00

4.00

5.00

6.00

High Yield Inflation Money Markets

North America W Europe Total

% AUM PAST MONTH

-10.00

-5.00

0.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

Government Corporate Multi-Product

Short end Belly Long end Total

% AUM PAST QUARTER

-15.00

-10.00

-5.00

0.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

30.00

High Yield Inflation Money Markets

North America W Europe Total

% AUM PAST QUARTER

-10.00

-5.00

0.00

5.00

10.00

15.00

20.00

25.00

30.00

Government Corporate Multi-Product

Short end Belly Long end Total

% AUM PAST YEAR

-20.00

-10.00

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10.00

20.00

30.00

40.00

50.00

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North America W Europe Total

% AUM PAST YEAR

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Global DM Manager Asset Allocations Fig 63 Eurozone allocations for the last month (%) Fig 64 Global DM allocations for the last month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 65 Eurozone allocations one month previous (%) Fig 66 Global DM allocations one month previous (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 67 Eurozone allocations one quarter ago (%) Fig 68 Global DM allocations one quarter ago (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 69 Eurozone allocations one year ago (%) Fig 70 Global DM allocations one year ago (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

France, 26.5

Germany, 15.3

Italy, 17.5

Netherlands, 11.9

Spain, 11.1

Belgium, 3.9

Austria, 0.9

Ireland, 4.2

Portugal, 1.0

Finland, 0.7 Greece, 1.00.1 0.0 0.0Slovakia, 0.0 Cash, 1.9

USA, 53.1

Euro, 20.6

UK, 8.3

Japan, 4.4Canada, 2.6Australia, 1.4

Sweden, 0.0Switzerland, 0.8Denmark, 0.3Newzealand, 0.0 Norway, 0.5 Cash, 4.5

France, 26.1

Germany, 15.9

Italy, 18.0

Netherlands, 11.4

Spain, 11.3Belgium, 3.4

Austria, 0.9

Ireland, 4.6

Portugal, 1.1

Finland, 0.6Greece, 1.00.1 0.0

0.0Slovakia, 0.0 Cash, 1.7

USA, 52.8

Euro, 19.5

UK, 8.3

Japan, 4.4Canada, 2.9

Australia, 1.7

Sweden, 0.0Switzerland, 1.2Denmark, 0.2Newzealand, 0.0 Norway, 0.6 Cash, 4.9

France, 23.6

Germany, 14.6

Italy, 19.9

Netherlands, 11.2

Spain, 12.4

Belgium, 2.8

Austria, 1.0

Ireland, 4.7

Portugal, 1.0

Finland, 0.7 Greece, 1.10.1 0.0 0.0

Slovakia, 0.0 Cash, 2.7

USA, 52.4

Euro, 19.7

UK, 8.7

Japan, 5.6Canada, 3.1

Australia, 1.8

Sweden, 0.0Switzerland, 1.1Denmark, 0.2Newzealand, 0.0 Norway, 0.6 Cash, 3.1

France, 27.7

Germany, 15.3

Italy, 18.0

Netherlands, 10.3

Spain, 11.7

Belgium, 3.2

Austria, 1.3

Ireland, 3.6

Portugal, 1.2

Finland, 0.7 Greece, 1.30.1

0.0 0.0Slovakia, 0.1 Cash, 2.9

USA, 50.2

Euro, 22.1

UK, 8.1

Japan, 5.2Canada, 2.8

Australia, 1.9

Sweden, 0.0Switzerland, 1.0Denmark, 0.3Newzealand, 0.0 Norway, 0.4 Cash, 4.7

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Developed Markets Country Flows Fig 71 Eurozone – Change in the past week (%) Fig 72 Non Eurozone – Change in the past week (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 73 Eurozone – Change in the past month (%) Fig 74 Non Eurozone – Change in the past month (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 75 Eurozone – Change in the past quarter (%) Fig 76 Non Eurozone – Change in the past quarter (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

Fig 77 Eurozone – Change in the past year (%) Fig 78 Non Eurozone – Change in the past year (%)

Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates Source: EPFR Global, ING estimates

-0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3

AustriaBelgium

CyprusFinlandFrance

GermanyGreeceIreland

ItalyNetherlands

PortugalSpain

Total (Selected Eurozone)

% AUM PAST WEEK

-0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6

AustraliaHong Kong

JapanNew Zealand

SingaporeIceland

DenmarkNorwaySweden

SwitzerlandUK

CanadaUS

Total (Selected Non Eurozone)% AUM PAST WEEK

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1

AustriaBelgium

CyprusFinlandFrance

GermanyGreeceIreland

ItalyNetherlands

PortugalSpainTotal…

% AUM PAST MONTH

0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6

AustraliaHong Kong

JapanNew Zealand

SingaporeIceland

DenmarkNorwaySweden

SwitzerlandUK

CanadaUS

Total…% AUM PAST MONTH

-4 -3.5 -3 -2.5 -2 -1.5 -1 -0.5 0

Austria

Belgium

Cyprus

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Ireland

Italy

Netherlands

Portugal

Spain

Total (Selected Eurozone)

% AUM PAST QUARTER

-8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2

AustraliaHong Kong

JapanNew Zealand

SingaporeIceland

DenmarkNorwaySweden

SwitzerlandUK

CanadaUS

Total (Selected Non Eurozone)

% AUM PAST QUARTER

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

AustriaBelgium

CyprusFinlandFrance

GermanyGreeceIreland

ItalyNetherlands

PortugalSpainTotal…

% AUM PAST YEAR

-2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

AustraliaHong Kong

JapanNew Zealand

SingaporeIceland

DenmarkNorwaySweden

SwitzerlandUK

CanadaUS

Total (Selected Non Eurozone)% AUM PAST YEAR

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