That investor reaction was actually a little slow & stupid — a) the Lehman exposure (& entire portfolio) of the Primary Fund was pre-identified, so it was simple enough to calculate losses would be relatively limited, and b) lazy
MMF investors should have been checking the SEC filings — at this point, there have been dozens of instances where funds have been supported to ensure they didn't break the buck.
That's when the $ 62.5 billion Reserve Primary Fund «broke the buck» (that is, the value of each share fell below the customary money - fund share price of $ 1.00), causing the first - ever losses for retail
MMF investors.
Not exact matches
Note: «NAAIM» is the National Association of Active Investment Managers (Note, I know
MMF is money market funds but I'm not sure what the rest of the metric represents other than its some measure of
investor portfolio cash vs stock holdings).
Some
MMFs even allow
investors to write checks on these accounts.
While
MMFs offer liquidity and convenience, the looming changes may give
investors and advisors an impetus to redeploy their assets.
Prime Institutional money - market funds, consistently less likely than other Taxable
MMFs to grant fee waivers, are now the most likely funds to offer some breaks to
investors when it comes to charged expenses, according to iMoneyNet's latest Money Fund Expense Report ™.