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- Is Your Money Market Fund Still Safe?
- The U.S. Treasury no longer insures money market funds. Should you worry? MoneyWatch's Eric Schurenberg offers some red flags to watch for.
- Videos 2009-10-14
- Why You Shouldn?t Bash Cash
- Today?s seemingly microscopic yields on money market funds aren?t so bad when you take into account the fact that inflation has actually been negative for much of the year. As a result, real returns are actually fairly decent. Here?s how to think about the role of cash in your portfolio,...
- Articles 2009-11-19
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- Default coverage for money market funds
- Zurich and others begin offering protection to money market funds and their depositors When the infamous bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he continued to rob banks, he replied simply, "Because that's where the money is." Today a lot of money-liquid assets of ordinary citizens and businesses-is no longer...
- Research articles 1999-03-01
- FINRA Alerts Investors of U.S. Treasury Program to Guarantee Money Market Funds that "Break the Buck"
- WASHINGTON -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA today issued an Investor Alert to notify the investing public of the U.S. Treasury Department's Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. The Treasury Department's program, which opened Sept. 29, protects money held in participating money market funds as of Sept. 19...
- Research articles 2008-10-01
- Money Market Funds' Lehman Exposure
- FP Trading Desk submits: While some smaller money market funds have broken the buck as a result of their exposure to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. LEH, many publicly traded money managers appear to have little or no exposure. “Breaking the buck” occurs when a fund’s net asset value falls...
- External links 2008-09-17
- Rate cuts pummel money market funds
- Low interest rates and high fees have driven yields on two small broker-sold money market funds below 1% -- and more funds will follow if the Federal Reserve cuts rates again. Some funds now collect more money in expenses than they pay investors. That hasn't happened...
- Research articles 2008-03-12
- Morgan Stanley Investment Management Announces Participation in U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds
- NEW YORK -- Morgan Stanley Investment Management MSIM announced today that the Morgan Stanley Funds' Board of Directors/Trustees has approved the participation of its money market funds in the U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program. All Morgan Stanley SEC registered 2a-7 money market funds will apply to be insured under the...
- Research articles 2008-09-29
- Parking your money - money market funds
- Money market funds are posting decent yields Stocks may not have registered a 20% gain in 1999, but one type of investment is enjoying a boom year: money market mutual funds. "Assets increased by 20% from late 1998 to late 1999," says Peter G. Crane, managing editor of IBC's...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Doman sees rise in money market funds.
- Marc Doman, managing director of AIM Global, says that the days of money market funds in Europe acting the poor relation to those in the US are nearly over.Currently, assets in US money market funds dwarf those in Europe, with around 40% of US companies' cash invested...
- Research articles 2002-07-20
- MONEY MARKET FUNDS MAKE GAINS: LONGER-TERM BOND FUNDS, GROWTH FUNDS ALSO SAW INFLOWS IN AUGUST.(Statistical Data Included)
- SUMMIT, N.J. -- Net mutual fund flows were about $25 billion in August, with more than 80% going into money market funds, according to Lipper Inc., a data analysis company. Longer-term bond funds experienced net outflows in nearly all investment SUMMIT,...
- Research articles 1999-10-04
- Money market funds top for short term.(Brief Article)
- A survey of 200 of the largest European corporates and banks by JP Morgan Investment Management has highlighted an overwhelming preference for money market funds as opposed to any other form of short-term investment. However, the survey demonstrates that while 71 per cent of corporates show...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Neuberger Berman Announces Money Market Funds' Intention to Apply for U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program
- NEW YORK -- Neuberger Berman Management LLC announced today that the Boards of Trustees for all publicly offered Neuberger Berman and Lehman Brothers money market funds (the "Funds") have approved the participation of the Funds in the U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds. All the Funds intend...
- Research articles 2008-10-03
- Van Kampen Announces Participation in U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds
- CHICAGO -- Van Kampen Investments Inc. announced today that the Van Kampen Funds' Board of Directors has approved the participation of its money market funds in the U.S. Treasury Temporary Guarantee Program. Van Kampen offers three SEC registered 2a-7 funds and each of these funds will apply to be insured...
- Research articles 2008-10-07
- Money market funds zap Fidelity: total inflows off 78% in 2002 despite 14% rise by long-term funds.
- Fidelity Investments, battling a treacherous bear market and a massive retrenchment from money market funds, experienced a stunning 78% drop in net inflows in 2002. Fidelity Investments, battling a treacherous bear market and a massive retrenchment from money market funds, experienced a...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Money market funds risk safety for yield.(Statistical Data Included)
- GenAm mess points up increased danger The financial woes of General American Life Insurance Co. have raised concerns about the safety of a kind of investment that some money market funds use, and of the funds themselves. ...
- Research articles 1999-08-23
- Fund Boards of Directors/Trustees Approve UBS U.S. Money Market Funds' Participation in U.S. Treasury's Temporary Guarantee Program
- NEW YORK -- The Boards of Directors/Trustees for the UBS U.S. Money Market Funds named below (the "Funds") on October 1, 2008, approved the participation of those money market funds in the U.S. Treasury's Temporary Guarantee Program. All of these Funds will apply to be covered under the program. ...
- Research articles 2008-10-02
- Reich & Tang to Participate in U.S. Treasury Department's Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds
- NEW YORK -- On October 2, 2008, the Boards of Directors and Trustees of all U.S.-registered money market funds advised by Reich & Tang Asset Management, LLC approved the participation of those funds in the U.S. Treasury Department's Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds ("Guarantee Program"). "The Guarantee...
- Research articles 2008-10-03
- Money Market Funds
- "If investing a large portion of your retirement fund in the stock market or equity fund gives you cold sweat, you may be interested in considering investing in a money market mutual fund. The article shows that money market funds are divided into two categories: taxable and tax-free. If you're...
- White papers
- Stable Value Vs. Money Market Funds
- This article emphasizes that a stable value participant is subject to the Equity Wash rules. A participant may only invest stable value assets in a competing investment option by first transferring assets from the stable value portfolio to a non-competing investment and the assets must remain in the non-competing investment...
- White papers 2001-06-20
- Fitch: Money Market Funds Embrace U.S. Treasury's Temporary Guarantee Program
- NEW YORK -- The U.S. Treasury's introduction of the $50 billion Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds on Sept. 29, 2008, was followed almost immediately by the announced enrollment in the program of the overwhelming majority of Fitch-rated prime money market funds registered under rule 2a-7 of the Investment...
- Research articles 2008-10-06
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