LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock (>> BlackRock), the world's biggest fund manager, saw the largest inflows in the European asset management sector in 2017 at 62.7 billion euros (55.63 billion pounds), according to data from Morningstar.

Record net inflows across the sector took European-domiciled open-end funds to 8.9 trillion euros under management, up 12 percent from 7.96 trillion in 2016, Morningstar said in a statement on Wednesday.

Standard Life's global absolute return strategies fund saw net outflows of 9 billion euros.

Standard Life merged last year with Aberdeen Asset Management to form Standard Life Aberdeen (>> Standard Life Aberdeen).

(Reporting by Carolyn Cohn, editing by Maiya Keidan)

Stocks treated in this article : BlackRock, Standard Life Aberdeen