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BlackRock is eating the world:
Assets Under Management (AUM) grew by 15% to hit a fresh ATH at $11.55tn. BlackRock has raised $641bn in investor funds in 2024. Tally includes $390bn flowing into its ETF business overall, $226bn into equity funds, and $164bn into fixed-income. Source Bloomberg, HolgerZ
2025 is going to start and mutual funds and hedge funds managers cash levels are near record lows
Source: BofA
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has a cash position of $325 Billion
or 30% of its total AUM, which is Buffett's largest allocation to cash since in 35 years. source : barchart
"Cash is trash"
Fund Manager cash allocations at a record low... Source: Callum Thomas, BofA
🚨 MARKET EUPHORIA IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT🚨
Asset managers' net long positions on the S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq futures are now the second-highest in 15 YEARS. They are now only slightly below the 2021 levels seen before the 2022 bear market. Professionals are all in stocks. Source: Global Markets Investor
Ahead, of interest rates cut, how does the average asset allocation look like?
Are we going to see cash moving out of money markets into risk assets? Well, according to this chart by Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT, MBA, as a percent of total assets, money market fund holdings are now at 2-year LOWS !!!
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