Fifteen of the largest money-market mutual fund companies, which ...

Funds Turn To Treasury Guaranty Money-Market Managers Seek to Boost Confidence By Annys Shin Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 12, 2008; F01 Fifteen of the largest money-market mutual fund companies, which together account ...

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Don’t Panic!

Every one who cashes out — even by transferring stock based mutual funds to money market funds — is making the situation worse. Take, for example, GM. On october 12, 2007, its shares were selling for $42.64 each. ...

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How Safe is Your Money Market Fund?

According to Standard & Poor's, there are approximately 2,000 money market mutual funds out there, 1,200 of which are taxable. Within the taxable universe there are about 700 that can invest in commercial paper; the 500 left over would ...

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The money market mutual fund stabilization fund

Here is the [press release ](http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/hp1161.htm)put out by Treasury on its back-up plan for making sure that money market mutual fund money invested before September 19 doesn't "break a buck". ...

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Money Market Funds

Money market funds are about the most stable mutual fund going. They're so safe and boring many people don't realize they're mutual funds. But they do have some risks that your bank's money market fund doesn't have.

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Tutorialized Forums - Money-market funds flock to guarantee ...

Date: October 12th, 2008 10:03 AM - RSS_News_User - Money-market funds flock to guarantee program (AP) Post: AP - Nearly all the $3.4 trillion in money-market mutual funds is expected to be federally guaranteed for at least the next ...

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Mutual funds turn to Treasury guaranty

Fifteen of the largest money-market mutual fund companies, which together account for three-quarters of the market, said this week that they would take up the Treasury Department on its offer of a temporary guaranty to regain their ...

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Liquidity crisis: where has all the money gone?

The pressure on banking system has further been aggravated by the problems faced by a section of the Indian mutual fund industry—the so-called liquid funds which invest in money market instruments. Some of these funds have invested in ...

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Flooding the system with money?

In addition, for all the media hype about flights from money market mutual funds, ICI weekly data no such thing developed amongst retail investors. Institutional holders (such as CFO’s parking cash assets from corporate balance sheets) ...

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A money market mutual fund clarification

**A clarification:** There has been some confusion about an answer I gave last week about money market mutual funds. The Treasury stabilization fund only backs money that was in a money market mutual fund as of September 19. ...

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How's your 401k doing with the Dow down 2300 points in 10 days?

An IRA from Ameritrade, Fidelity, or someone else lets you buy an almost unlimited selection of stocks, mutual funds, ETFs. There are stocks and mutual funds that make money in a down market, though even they won't be safe in a total ...

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Taurus MF Commences 370 Days FMP - Oct 13, 2008

Taurus Mutual Fund has unveiled Taurus Fixed Maturity Plan -370 Days-Series 1 on 8 October 2008. The scheme is available for fresh subscription until 16 October 2008. The new issue price is at Rs 10 per units during new fund offer ...

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How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps

Those that don’t want to deal with the hassle and risk of individual stocks should highly consider low cost no-load mutual funds or broadly diversified index funds that track major stock market indexes. As always, one should always ...

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Where did the money go?

Whether you’re a stock broker or Joe Six-pack, if you have a 401(k), a mutual fund or a college savings plan, tumbling stock markets and sagging home prices mean you’ve lost a whole lot of the money that was right there on your account ...

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Stock Market Crash of 2008 – Where Will Americans Put Their ...

Our competitors, banks and mutual fund companies, enable customers to move money around quickly and without penalty. Thanks to the stock market crash of 2008, our message of safety and stability will sell very well in the future. ...

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Financial Chaos Continues as The Bear Rages On!!!

Before the crash started last week, hedge funds had $2 trillion and mutual funds $5.6 trillion in stock funds. That is 20 times more hedge fund money and five times more mutual fund money subject to forced liquidation. ...

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Money-market funds flock to guarantee program

Nearly all the $3.4 trillion in money-market mutual funds is expected to be federally guaranteed for at least the next three months, now that all the major fund providers signed up to participate by a deadline that passed Wednesday. ...

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Could An Accounting Rule Be At The Center Of The Financial Crisis?

The investing public got spooked and there was a panic run on money market funds, the MMFs, several of which went under due to redemptions; and some money market funds and mutual funds are not honoring investors calls for share ...

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Liquidity crunch hits some funds

82 crore) and SBI mutual fund (Rs 29248 crore) have seen a fall in their average AUMs even as bank money went out of liquid funds because of severe liquidity crunch in the market. Banks often park surplus funds in liquid or liquid plus ...

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$149 Billion Loaned To Money Market Mutual Funds

Over the last week $145.9 billion worth of loans were made to money market mutual funds—via banks—to help the funds meet withdrawals, according to data released by the Fed. More than likely the loans are because wthdrawal demands are so ...

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New safety net for money market mutual funds

Last week the mortgage crisis had consumers fearing that one of their seemingly most stable investments, money market mutual funds, could become about as worthless as Enron stock. The company that invented the money market fund, ...

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Re: Why does Obama scare you?

Even more significantly, the increase in deposits specifically of the kind commonly held with brokerage houses, ie, so-called money-market-mutual-fund accounts, has been at double digit rates: 17.5% in both 1996 and 1997 and 29% in 1998 ...

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MFs look for ways to tide over crunch

For some fund houses what has made things further difficult is the bag of illiquid securities they had bought to generate a higher return for investors . Money market sources confirmed that a large fund, promoted by an Indian group, ...

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10 Money Making Tips - Everything You Needed to Know to Make Money ...

Set aside 10% of your paycheck towards some form of long term savings account, like a money market account, mutual fund, retirement plan, or 401K. As you pay amount increases, your contribution will also increase automatically. ...

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Federal Reserve Board announces two enhancements to its programs ...

Released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Don't jump into the stock market tomorrow; Ramsey's advice has now ...

And I called out financial guru Dave Ramsey for telling people on NewsChannel 5 last month to put their money into growth mutual funds and all was safe in the market. Then, the stock market was trading over 11600 on the Dow Jones ...

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Beyond the 2008 Stock Market Crash

Even if it is a bear market rally, it could be a powerful one given that most hedge funds, mutual funds and pension funds are underperforming and they need to make up Apart from writing my blog, I spend my day building a collection of ...

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Economy part 1 -- the real root of our problems, and nobody's ...

In general they don't do well compared to index funds which merely follow the market as a whole. Yet the management of mutual funds is where the industry makes its huge, huge money. Even though the vast majority of fund managers don't ...

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Dynamic Growth: October 13, 2008 Briefing

As the stock market nosedived, mutual fund investors added to the selling pressure by calling their brokers to liquidate accounts. These forced liquidations caused massive selling pressure on DJIA, S&P, and NASDAQ. ...

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Signs Of The Apocalypse: Even Money Market Funds Are Losing Money

"Money market mutual funds have been a successful financial product for millions of investors. Although money market funds are not guaranteed, investors have benefited from the security, liquidity, and diversification that these funds ...

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The xml programming for gaming theory that will astound you by ...

... gaming mutual funds. “I invest heavily in areas that look promising, but also proportionately balance my risk by putting some money in standard investments, such as stocks, bonds, and money market funds”, states Willmarth Neighbor. ...

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The Internet and Global Forex Trading: The Perfect Combo Part 1

Countless currency traders think that the Forex market is the ultimate place to earn money. If you have a little start up money you can make big profits, as long as you know how the market works. And your money is secure too. ...

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President Bush on Economy, Oct. 10th

The Treasury Department has also acted to restore confidence in a key element of America's financial system by offering government insurance for money market mutual funds. Thirdly, we are concerned that some investors could take ...

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Yields soar on tax-free money market mutual funds

The recent run on money market mutual funds has had the temporary side effect of sending yields soaring on tax-free municipal money market funds. As of Sept. 31, the Vanguard Tax-Exempt Money Market Fund (VMSXX) was paying 5.84 percent. ...

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Invest in Money Market Funds

When you invest in a money market, you are investing in a unique type of mutual fund. Money market mutual funds are designed to yield modest returns while preserving principal. These funds focus on maintaining net asset values (NAVs) of ...

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Obama stock: Alternative profits from ‘New Energy’ policy

Filed under: Mutual funds, Green Stocks. This post is part of a series in which TheStockAdvisors.com asked financial experts to name their top stock pick if McCain or if Obama wins the election. “An Obama presidency would likely mean ...

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CME Group (CME) Details on Future Credit Default Swaps Market

Whose to say 2 hedge funds are not trading with each other and bidding the CDS up higher and higher - which creates an infinite upside. In theory the "seller" of the contract should have the money set aside to pay it off if in fact they ...

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Trillions Disappear in Stock Market, but Where Did Money Go?

The cash that gets put in is used by the fund managers selected to manage your fund buy into mutual funds that match your stated goals (ie income, growth, aggressive growth, and so on). You own shares, or a portion of whatever a fund or ...

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From a friend...

"To reduce liquidity and other strains being experienced by money market mutual funds, the Federal Reserve System adopted on September 19, 2008, a special lending facility that enables depository institutions and bank holding companies ...

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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 2, Week 10

It did not act so great Friday but in this market, what hedge fund is liquidating is more important than any technical analysis so I am not reading too much into it. This was (until Friday) going to be our proxy on the NASDAQ. ...

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Run on FMP's causing panic

Unfortunately, SEBI does not even gather data about the FMPs issued by mutual funds or the quality of securities in them. The other problem today is super-liquid schemes that invest in the call money market. ...

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Secretary Paulson Statement at the IMFC Meeting

Supplementing these actions, Treasury has implemented a temporary guaranty program for US money market mutual funds. Second, financial authorities are acting swiftly to strengthen our financial institutions. ...

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The art market and the financial crisis - A personal view

To satisfy their lending procedures and spread their risk, the banks trading and on-selling the securitised home mortgages to investors, mutual funds, hedge funds, and private individuals, took out insurance against with major insurance ...

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Fidelity, Vanguard join money-fund insurance plan - Seattle Times

Fidelity, Vanguard join money-fund insurance plan Seattle Times, United States - 2 hours ago Fidelity Investments have joined the US Treasury's emergency insurance program for money-market mutual funds, pushing the participation rate to ...

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Trillions Disappear in Stock Market, but Where Did Money Go?

There's a key distinction here: While the money in your pocket is unlikely to just vanish into thin air, the money you could have had, if only you'd sold your house or drained your stock-heavy mutual funds a year ago, most certainly can ...

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World leaders swear to fight economic crisis

... homeowners to refinance into more affordable mortgages; cutting the target for the federal funds rate; unveiling a plan to support the market for commercial paper; and offering government insurance for money market mutual funds. ...

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How Certain People Get Rich

I have a feeling that this break in the curve represents the separation between the "haves" and "have-nots" that exist in the stock market or in investing in general. In the current market, mutual funds no longer work to create the ...

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MONEY MARKET FUND RUN: no promises when investors can expect money ...

The firm managing a money-market mutual fund that “broke the buck” last month said Thursday it is shutting down 15 more of its funds, with no promises when investors can expect money back, or how much. Reserve Management Corp. said fund ...

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Mutual Funds

In 1995, the RBI permitted private sector institutions to set up Money Market Mutual Funds (MMMFs). They can invest in treasury bills, call and notice money, commercial paper, commercial bills accepted/co-accepted by banks, ...

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Money Market Mutual Funds Given Temporary Guaranty

Excerpt: "In an unprecedented effort to plug a run on money market mutual funds, the federal government has put into effect a temporary guaranty insurance program for money funds. The program, which started last week, ...

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