Buyers are piling into energetic fastened revenue funds at report ranges, in response to State Road International Advisors. The funds noticed inflows of $5.48 billion in October, their finest month ever, in response to Matthew Bartolini, head of the agency’s SPDR Americas Analysis. That brings inflows to $24.8 billion to this point this yr for energetic fastened revenue funds. “The energetic fastened revenue flows in October had been primarily pushed by ultra-short period methods that search to ship revenue and stability, synonymous with the developments we noticed in bond sector flows … the place quick period authorities bonds (yielding over 5%) had been sought,” Bartolini wrote in a be aware final week. In actual fact, 43% of the month’s inflows went into ultra-short bond funds, in response to State Road. The funds, which maintain securities that mature in lower than one yr, will help defend in opposition to rate of interest threat. About 25% went into intermediate core plus bond funds, State Road stated. Yields have been shifting greater because the Federal Reserve started mountain climbing rates of interest early in 2022. In October, the 10-year Treasury yield crossed 5% for the primary time since 2007, and is now hovering round 4.6%. Brief-term T-bills are all bringing in additional than 5%. With that in thoughts, CNBC Professional screened for energetic bond exchange-traded funds with the biggest inflows in October. Listed below are the energetic bond funds with the biggest inflows yr up to now. — CNBC’s Jesse Pound and Michael Bloom contributed reporting.