Retail investors return to property in April - IMA

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Retail investors continued to pour money back into property funds in April after a period of outflows from the sector, according to IMA statistics.

Property funds benefited from inflows of £71m over the month which came on top of inflows of £21.4m into the sector last month. The move back into property comes after four months of outflows as investors worried about liquidity in the sector. The newly launched IMA Absolute Return sector also had a strong month with inflows of over £170m. However, the UK Other Bond sector was the most popular UK domiciled net retail sales sector with inflows of £456m. The sector with the biggest outflows in April 2008 was UK All Companies, with net outflows of £182m. In total, net retail sales in A...

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