{"id":1077,"date":"2011-09-30T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2011-09-30T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T20:37:30","slug":"ici-trends-in-mutual-fund-investing-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/30\/ici-trends-in-mutual-fund-investing-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"ICI &#8211; Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The combined assets of the nation\u2019s mutual funds decreased by $398.0 billion, or 3.3 percent, to $11.621 trillion in August, according to the Investment Company Institute\u2019s official survey of the mutual fund industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ici.org\/research\/stats\/trends\/trends_08_11\">ICI &#8211; Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stock funds decreased by 7.4% in August 2011 but were offset to some extent by gains in money market funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combined assets of the nation\u2019s mutual funds decreased by $398.0 billion, or 3.3 percent, to $11.621 trillion in August, according to the Investment Company Institute\u2019s official survey of the mutual fund industry. via ICI &#8211; Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011. Stock funds decreased by 7.4% in August 2011 but were offset to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/30\/ici-trends-in-mutual-fund-investing-august-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ICI &#8211; Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,34],"tags":[2354,2392],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-markets","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-money-market-funds","tag-mutual-funds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ICI - Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011 - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ICI - Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011 - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The combined assets of the nation\u2019s mutual funds decreased by $398.0 billion, or 3.3 percent, to $11.621 trillion in August, according to the Investment Company Institute\u2019s official survey of the mutual fund industry. via ICI &#8211; Trends in Mutual Fund Investing, August 2011. 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