Sentences with phrase «money market funds fail»

Just once has a money market fund failed.

Due to the fund's poor investment selection and the failure of Lehman Brothers, the money market fund failed it primary purpose.

Not exact matches

That money, which is mostly held in short - term U.S. bonds and money market funds, was kept in Ireland for years, until an investigation by the European Union into whether the company failed to pay taxes caused it to move its holdings to Jersey, a small island off the coast of Normandy that rarely taxes corporations.

If GE Capital failed, a lot of money market funds would break the buck.

Giving your money to a Unit Trust doesn't work much better — there's loads of research showing how actively - managed funds routinely fail to beat the market.

Previously for mutual funds you statied that 85 % of mutual funds fail to beat the market and that putting money in a mutual fund was stupid for us to do.

There was $ 3 1/2 trillion in money market funds and $ 175 billion of funds flowed out in the first three days after Lehman failed.

In fact, we are told, that over 70 % of the mutual funds fail to beat the market, presenting this as an evidence to somehow imply, in some convoluted logic, that we are better off handing over our money to the same mutual funds and invest passively, rather than take control of our own portfolio.