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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (15237)	11/15/2002 8:30:26 AM
From: t2	Respond to of 30712

the other thing to keep in mind about the pension funds is that they're now starting to get cash infusions to make up for the last couple of years of underfunding. That is interesting. Never thought of that. I guess these pension funds diversified would have to allocate a certain amount to stocks. Cash flows into the market are not that significant so asset changes and possible inflows to pensions can really tilt the scale. Most companies will probably just cut a check for the pension fund but there will be some that have to do a secondary to raise cash. Last week's fund flows: Look at the HUGE money market increases even though new money into stock funds is not really there even during this run up.(maybe some of that pension money<g>) http://www.amgdata.com/ Equity Funds report net cash outflows of $278 Million for the week ended 11/13/02 - with all coming from Non-Domestic Sectors - while Domestic Growth/Value Funds report inflows. Taxable Bond Fund inflows total $1.8 Billion - with most going to Investment Grade and High Yield Corporate Bond Funds. Money Market Funds report inflows of $81.0 billion, the largest on record. Inflows for the first two weeks of November ($127.9 billion) are also the largest two-week inflow on record. Municipal Bond Fund inflows total $278 Million.