Investors have begun repositioning their portfolios towards safe assets like cash and bonds amid a market upheaval that has pushed the ASX towards correction territory and sent Wall Street tumbling this week.
Figures compiled by Betashares, one of the country’s biggest providers of exchange-traded funds popular with retail investors, said a third of new money flowing into ETF products this month was headed towards fixed income strategies, a 16 per cent increase compared to February.
Source: https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/australians-pour-money-into-cash-and-bonds-as-markets-panic-20250311-p5lind