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Here's a Wall Street Journal Article that's stating the obvious. Money market funds, not money market accounts are returning close to 0%. With inflation, or deflation, the returns are a bit better...
Money market mutual fund accounts no longer have the backing of the U.S. Treasury. Uncle Sam is betting that fund investors won’t care -- or won’t notice.
The Treasury is allowing its...
With a modicum of hindsight now available, do governments and central banks deserve credit for preventing catastrophe? The early verdict from most scholars, executives and government insiders is...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a series of rulings that it says will reduce the change of losses for money market fund investors. The problem is that these rulings will also...
Money market mutual funds could eventually be forced to float their share prices rather than maintain the constant $1-a-share value that has made the industry a popular haven for investors’ cash....
For risk-averse 401(k) participants, the usual havens of money-market, stable-value and short-term bond funds pose new risks.
The article starts off with a little bit of scaremongering, but...
On Tuesday, Reserve Management Co. said it will pay back another $2 billion of the fund's assets. But after that payout, there will still be $4.8 billion of investor money sitting in the defunct...
An unnerving new crack emerged in the $520 billion stable-value fund market as an offering for workers at Chrysler LLC dropped 11%, highlighting strains in yet another supposedly safe investment.
Ultra-short-term bond funds are supposed to be low-risk, but their recent losses suggest otherwise. From the middle of 2007 through the end of 2008, many of these funds lost more than 20%. As you...
Money market mutual fund yields are dropping hard, and that's causing a number of firms to waive some fees and close funds to new investors. Breaking the buck is always the big headline, but that's...
Head of JP Morgan Chase's investment unit, James Staley, says that money market funds are the biggest risk to the financial system now. With over $4 trillion parked in money markets, they are...
Money market funds invested in Treasuries will provide a negative return to investors if the Fed cuts rates next week, as its widely expected to do. This will be the first time this has ever...
With the problems this year in money market funds and auction-rate securities, I've had my worries about stable value funds which is the only "safe" choice in my 401(k). The article does a good job...