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1. European Stock Funds

1970 - 2018 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic & Foreign Sales data was reported at 7,844.000 EUR mn in Aug 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 7,640.000 EUR mn for Jul 2018. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic & Foreign Sales data is updated monthly, averaging 1,806.500 EUR mn from Jan 1970 to Aug 2018, with 584 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27,117.000 EUR mn in Dec 2015 and a record low of -37,827.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic & Foreign Sales data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds.

1950 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales data was reported at 9,524.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 6,647.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019.

Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales data is updated monthly, averaging 355.000 EUR mn from Sep 1950 to Apr 2019, with 797 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 26,955.000 EUR mn in Dec 2015 and a record low of -19,842.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1994 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Money Market data was reported at -47.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019.

This records an increase from the previous number of -283.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Money Market data is updated monthly, averaging -53.500 EUR mn from Sep 1994 to Apr 2019, with 296 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11,740.000 EUR mn in Dec 1994 and a record low of -3,955.000 EUR mn in Dec 2004. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Money Market data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1970 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Open End Real Estate data was reported at 919.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 624.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019.

Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Open End Real Estate data is updated monthly, averaging 66.000 EUR mn from Jan 1970 to Apr 2019, with 589 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3,462.000 EUR mn in Jan 2002 and a record low of -5,075.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Open End Real Estate data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank.

The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1960 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Securities Based data was reported at 437.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of -29.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019.

Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Securities Based data is updated monthly, averaging 105.000 EUR mn from Jan 1960 to Apr 2019, with 709 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,183.000 EUR mn in May 2010 and a record low of -6,079.000 EUR mn in Jun 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: GP: ow Securities Based data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank.

The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1950 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: General Public (GP) data was reported at 1,305.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 302.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: General Public (GP) data is updated monthly, averaging 109.000 EUR mn from Sep 1950 to Apr 2019, with 799 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12,402.000 EUR mn in Dec 1994 and a record low of -15,209.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: General Public (GP) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds.

1969 - 2019 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: Specialized Funds data was reported at 8,219.000 EUR mn in Apr 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 6,345.000 EUR mn for Mar 2019. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: Specialized Funds data is updated monthly, averaging 768.000 EUR mn from Jan 1969 to Apr 2019, with 601 observations.

The data reached an all-time high of 21,527.000 EUR mn in Dec 2015 and a record low of -6,650.000 EUR mn in Jan 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Domestic Sales: Specialized Funds data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank.

The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1960 - 2018 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Foreign Funds Sales: Balance data was reported at 2,222.000 EUR mn in Jul 2018.

This records an increase from the previous number of 1,127.000 EUR mn for Jun 2018. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Foreign Funds Sales: Balance data is updated monthly, averaging 6.000 EUR mn from Jan 1960 to Jul 2018, with 703 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9,771.000 EUR mn in Jan 2018 and a record low of -17,985.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Foreign Funds Sales: Balance data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank.

The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1989 - 2018 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: Non Residents Purchases: Balance data was reported at -339.000 EUR mn in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -3,039.000 EUR mn for Apr 2018. Germany’s Mutual Fund: Non Residents Purchases: Balance data is updated monthly, averaging 30.000 EUR mn from Jan 1989 to May 2018, with 353 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6,704.000 EUR mn in Sep 2009 and a record low of -7,692.000 EUR mn in Oct 2008.

Germany’s Mutual Fund: Non Residents Purchases: Balance data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds. 1970 - 2018 Monthly EUR mn Deutsche BundesbankGermany’s Mutual Fund: RP: Credit Inst: ow Foreign Mutual Fund Shares data was reported at 249.000 EUR mn in Sep 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -324.000 EUR mn for Aug 2018. Germany’s Mutual Fund: RP: Credit Inst: ow Foreign Mutual Fund Shares data is updated monthly, averaging 1.000 EUR mn from Jan 1970 to Sep 2018, with 538 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,435.000 EUR mn in May 2009 and a record low of -8,830.000 EUR mn in Dec 2009. Germany’s Mutual Fund: RP: Credit Inst: ow Foreign Mutual Fund Shares data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Deutsche Bundesbank.

The data is categorized under Global Database’s Germany – Table DE.Z007: Sales and Purchases: Mutual Funds.

I have to agree with Brokenm. I got stung when i first got out here and naively got talked into investing in some funds.

The funds have turned a profit, but the return is minimal.If your investing long term, then it works out, but for the short term the set up fees and yearly charges etc mean that the fund must do extremly well to pay off. My returns from investing direct in the market have provided far better returns Yet again, between 8- 12 different stocks at any one time.It depends on what your looking for, Short term/ long term investments. Are you staying in Germany? Do you want to shelter you money and use an offshore managed fund like Royal Skandia.

What kind of risk are you prepared to accept? There are lots of question you need to consider, so take you time & don't rush it like i once did. I'm just reading up on mutual funds and stock options, but the web offers contradicting arguments on the pro and cons of both. I just want a better return than your standard high-street savings account (like ING etc.) without taking massive risks.It seems stock options are good so long as you are prepared to invest in 100s of shares. That's feasible, but choosing a bunch of stocks out of many 1000s is not so easy for the average novice. Mutual funds, it appears, resolve that problem, but I understand the fees are quite high and so the return ends up being not so rewarding. Any advice is welcome.

Kent73: the problem about picking your own stocks is also that you'll find it much harder to diversify properly and thus become more vulnerable to the performance of one or two stocks in your portfolio - plus you really need to stay on top of the info about the companies/stocks you invest in all the time. I personally only pick some stocks for fun and risk beside my 'normal' investments which are in funds.You are right that most (about 2/3rds) of the funds on the market are not worthy of getting your money because they charge between 3-6% initially plus administrative fees every year wihtout ever outperforming the benchmark/index - and that is the least the ought to do.Of course there are also a number of well managed funds who have a long track record of beating the relevant benchmarks AND their peers.

European Stock Funds

A good (and independent) advisor can preselect and help you with finding these. If you like to save costs and still be well diversified in your investments, use so called ETFs or index funds. They just hold the same stocks in the same proprotion as the relevant index is based on, like DAX, S&P 500 or what not. And because they do not need to 'manage', they are quite low in costs in comparison.In your case I would advise a mixture of both: some well managed funds (perhaps from Carmignac or M&G) plus some index funds/ETFs. You should invest in globally active funds as well as in regional one's and perhaps add some certain economic sectores for spice (infrastructure, commodities for instance).FINANZTEST has an excellent ranking/rating of funds in every issue. CASH and other similar magazines, too. If you take these ratings and browse a bit on websites like ONVISTA you can make a good selection yourself.

Or, get an independent advisor to help you with that. He'll earn some money of course, but could be well worth it.Finally: if you want to do some smart investment yourself and your German is ok, try to use SMAVA for a couple of own investments.is a plattform where loans are given from private to private or private to small businesses.

You can just invest small amount around, thus spreading your risk (all borrowers are pre-scanned by SMAVA so that no real recoginzable bad risks are allowed anyway). Most loans are for 2-5 years and usually the interest rate currently offered ranks between 6-8% I am using this and some of my clients and it is fun AND a good investment so far.Cheerio.