While we are not sure if this is the biggest weekly outflow from mutual funds (the weeks after the Lehman bankruptcy potentially being larger), we do know that the week ending August 10 saw a near-record amount of redemptions from domestic equity mutual funds, amounting to an unprecedented $23.5 billion. This brings the total for August along to $34 billion: just $13 billion in outflows more and this will be the single biggest outflow month in ICI history. This is obviously a problem because as of the end of June mutual funds once again held a record low just 3.4% in cash. And the outflow was not limited to just US stocks: investors pulled cash from every single asset class for the third week in a row, including foreign stocks, bonds and munis. In fact, in the last three weeks a total of $67 billion has been withdrawan across all asset classes. Going back just to US stocks, this is the 16th consecutive week of outflows since April 2011, amounting to $87 billion in total outflows, and also about $172 billion in domestic equity fund outflows since the beginning of 2010. One thing is certain: there is no way that mutual funds have survived this veritable stock market run unscathed. We expect to find just which funds have blown up as a result in the next few weeks as the news of wholesale terminations can no longer be contained.