European Monthly Insight Highlights - December 2021

Assets in the European investment fund industry increased by €207 billion in December 2021 to end the year with €13.2 trillion in assets. European AUM grew by 4.8% in the last six months, €608 billion in assets during the second half of 2021.

Net sales totalled €49 billion in December 2021, a decrease of €4 billion from the month prior.

Bond mandates were the best-selling asset class, generating €19.1 billion in net inflows. Equity and mixed asset funds followed and generated €15.4 billion and €11.3 billion, respectively.

Actively-managed funds garnered net inflows of €34.4 billion while ETF sales slumped to €8.1 billion.