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November's election results sent the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond index, which Ford O'Neil's fund tracks, to its biggest monthly loss since 2004.

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Fund managers reflect on both the bear and bull eras, political and market forces from Richard Nixon's price controls and the financial crisis.

This massive outflow points to the use by institutional investors, which had in the past tended to gravitate toward similar products.

Firms like the Denver-based money manager that run actively managed strategies have been losing to competitors offering lower-cost mutual funds and ETFs.

The move echoes a larger effort by Wall Street to boost brokerage revenue as investors flee actively managed funds for cheaper products.

Investors have started buying gold through ETFs again as holdings rose 0.9 metric tons.

Big investors are motivated by signs the world has finally escaped from the decade of limp economic growth.

Investor sentiment is unabashedly high, with option costs falling and money flowing into stocks at an almost unprecedented rate.