The global heritage of investment funds is close to 86 trillion euros in the second quarter of 2026
28 SEPT, 2026
By Joanna Piwko from RankiaPro Europe
The assets of Collective Investment Institutions (CII) worldwide stood at 85.95 trillion euros at the end of June 2026, representing an increase of 9.8% compared to March 2026, according to the latest data published by Inverco based on IIFA information. Korea (+14.2%) and Sweden (+13.3%) were the markets that showed the greatest dynamism in the quarter.
United States holds half of the world's wealth
By geographical areas, America continues to be the dominant region, with 47.56 trillion euros in assets and a quarterly growth of 10.8%. Within this block, the United States alone represents 50% of the world's wealth in euros, after advancing 11.3% in the quarter to 42.94 trillion euros.
Europe, for its part, reached 25.94 trillion euros (+8.6% quarterly) and accounts for 30.2% of the total world. Luxembourg remains the benchmark European market, with 7.8% of global wealth, followed by Ireland (7.3%), Germany (3.4%) and France (3.3%). Spain, with 496.807 billion euros, represents 0.6% of the total world and grew by 5.9% in the quarter.
Asia and the Pacific added 12.19 trillion euros (+8.6%), highlighting the progress of China (+8.5%), Japan (+11.4%) and, especially, Korea (+14.2%). Africa, with South Africa as the only representative in the sample, advanced 6.2%, to 245.819 billion euros.
Volume of assets of the World CIIs
Equity dominates the distribution by categories
By asset categories, equity accounts for 49.7% of global wealth, followed by fixed income (18.1%), money market funds (14.3%), mixed IIC (9.3%) and real estate (1.5%). The rest of the categories add an additional 7.0%.
The ETF segment showed especially positive behavior, with a increase of 16.7% compared to the first quarter of 2026, reaching 19.7 trillion euros. Of this volume, 79.2% corresponds to equity and 16% to fixed income. The United States accounts for 70% of global ETF investment.
Net subscriptions reach 888.871 billion euros
In the field of flows, global net subscriptions for the second quarter of 2026 amounted to 888.871 billion euros, above the 795.480 billion recorded in the first quarter. Of this volume, 562.403 billion corresponded to ETFs.
By categories, fixed income funds attracted 472.803 billion euros, with America as the main focus of entries (245.152 billion), followed by Asia and Pacific (134.205 billion), where China stood out with 139.212 billion. Equity funds added 119.586 billion euros, driven by America (153.786 billion) and Europe (47.578 billion), which offset the outflows recorded in Asia and Pacific (-82.149 billion). Money market funds, for their part, attracted 178.499 billion euros, with the United States as the main destination (113.178 billion), followed by Ireland (34.105 billion).
By countries, the United States led global entries with 464.400 billion euros. In Europe, Ireland was at the forefront with 166.964 billion, while in Asia, China and Korea jointly concentrated 47.030 billion euros. On the opposite side, the United Kingdom (-15.571 billion), France (-8.124 billion) and the Netherlands (-6.412 billion) recorded net refunds. Spain added 5.209 billion euros in net subscriptions.
More than 152,000 collective investment institutions worldwide
The total number of CIIs worldwide reached 152,147 at the end of June 2026. By type, equity represents 33% of the total, followed by mixed CIIs (24%), fixed income (19%) and monetary (2%). Of this universe, 13,652 vehicles were ETFs and 29,230 corresponded to institutional funds.
