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Investors were still buying in February: IFIC

By Kate McCaffery | March 25, 2020, 10:34 a.m.

Next month’s numbers may well tell a different story, but February 2020 numbers reported by IFIC show that investors were still buying mutual funds and ETFs during the month of February.

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