Actively Managed Funds Take a Beating: The Year in Four Charts

(Bloomberg) -- How bad was 2016 for mutual fund stock pickers?

These charts tell the (ugly) story.

Two records will be made this year. Active managers will have the worst year ever for redemptions, while passive funds will have the best for inflows.

Here’s what went in and out each month.

Here’s how it looks for 2016.

Here are the top five funds investors put their money in this year through November and the ones investors left.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alan Mirabella in New York at amirabella@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Margaret Collins at mcollins45@bloomberg.net, Josh Friedman