David Brown
Analyst · Randy Binner of B. Riley FBR. Please proceed with your question
Hi, Randy, it's Dave. As you know, we don't disclose intra-quarter flow activity, but I can give you some guidance. For April, we've seen some normalization in most of the asset classes. I think in the first quarter, what we experienced was multifaceted. First, we saw in some of our strategies people use those to go to cash and get some liquidity, which hurt us. We did see a lot of activity around the gross side. So, you'll note that we had a large increase quarter-over-quarter on the gross flows. And then, we also saw some delayed fundings in our won but not yet funded and in our anticipated wins, really get pushed into the out months and quarters, which we think we will be able to benefit from, as the year progresses. As I said in my prepared remarks, we're a little bit cautious because of the market and investor sentiment around the market. We're seeing some unusual activity to the good and to the bad. And that really is around the volatility. But when you really look at it longer term as we do, we'd like to look at flows over quarters or over a year. We're optimistic, we have a number of our franchises that have excellent investment performance, that have open capacity and we went through some of those numbers like a Sycamore, a Trivalent and a Sophus, and an RS, where they have great performance and there is overcapacity. We also like where we are in our distribution channels and how we're positioned specifically on the retirement side and the sub-advisor side and then the evolving opportunity on the direct channel side, which we will see as the year progresses and into 2021 and then we think the Schwab closing of the USAA brokerage business will be a net positive to us as well, as Schwab begins to mine new accounts, we think some of that will accrue to our funds as well. So, we're optimistic, but cautious given what's happening in the market.