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Money Market Funds Are Yielding Almost Nothing
Money isn't everything, at least to investors in money market funds. Yields are at all-time lows, and nearly a quarter of funds yield nothing at all.
The average money fund yielded an annualized 0.08% the week ended Aug. 4, the latest data from iMoneyNet, which tracks funds, show. At that rate, a $10,000 investment would return 15 cents a week. Bu ...
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To Make Money, Go Where the Growth Is
IF CHARLES DICKENS HAD Written the economic forecast for 2011, he might have called it A Tale of Two Worlds. And though the title would have echoed the name of the most famous novel, Dickens would have turned its primary theme on its head. Today, citizens of developed countries are facing the worst of times, and those in many emerging nations are e ...
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Money Market Fund Cost Crunch
Banking organizations will be required to operate with substantially higher capital as a result of Dodd-Frank and the new Basel III capital framework. Some business activities will require more capital than others, particularly those that result in off-balance-sheet exposures for banking organizations. One such area where significantly more capital ...
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Money Funds Get A Makeover
WHAT'S THE DEAL?
BUT A NEW "SAFETY PREMIUM" COMES AT A COST: LOWER YIELDS
THE POST-APOCALYPSE money-market fund has a new look: It's more liquid, higher quality, more transparent. And, oh, it pays less.
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted rules to protect investors from a fallout such as that experienced in the aftermath of ...
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Money Funds Come Out of the Shadows
Investors will soon see when a fund's market value drops below $1
Investors in U.S. money market mutual funds, whose shares they expect to stay steady at $1, will see something new beginning the week of Jan. 31--and it has fund companies nervous. Under rules passed last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will disclose, with a 60-da ...
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JP Morgan Offers Money Market Fund Service
J.P. Morgan has enhanced its offering of regulatory reporting services for money market funds to assist asset managers in complying with the SEC revised Rule 2a-7 requirements
J.P. Morgan has enhanced its offering of regulatory reporting services for money market funds to assist asset managers in complying with the SEC revised Rule 2a-7 requiremen ...
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Is Your Money Fund Safe
MONEY MARKET mutual funds are known for being both liquid and solid. Liquid because you can get your money out of them at any time; solid because they maintain a steady value of $1 per share. And they're popular because they tend to pay slightly higher rates than Treasury bills or bank savings accounts. Individuals and institutions alike use them t ...
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Banks Trounce Money-Market Funds
Deposit accounts offer higher rates--and a guaranteed safety net.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO EARN the highest interest rate on your stash of cash, a bank is your best bet. Some banks are paying more than 2% on their money-market deposit accounts, while taxable money-market mutual funds yield an average of only 0.12%. Plus, your savings are insured up t ...
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Are Money Funds Safe Now
New federal insurance puts a partial safety met under money funds. Here's how to cut your risk even more
You normally wouldn't think twice about putting cash in a money-market fund. But when America's original money fund company, The Reserve, announced in mid-September that investors in its Primary Fund would lose money, the news sent a chilling ...
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Best Investment Bank-Mexico
The past 12 months have seen capital markets activity and M&A pick up in Mexico following a crisis-inspired lull. Mexican issuers have been issuing dollar bonds, and the country saw its first IPO in more than two years, though capital markets flow falls short of pre-crisis levels.
The landscape for large banks handling such operations seems little ...
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