If the investor kept
the proceeds in a money market fund with a typical annual yield of a few basis points, then the return through September 30 would be only slightly higher than the +0.502 % calculated above.
Since your employer matches your contribution in a lump sum fashion, you could opt to park
the proceeds in a money market fund and periodically invest it on your own.
Not exact matches
As a Defined Maturity
fund approaches its liquidation date, the
fund's securities will mature and the
fund may reinvest the
proceeds in money market securities with lower yields than the securities previously held by the
fund.
The simplest — and most drastic — action that an investor can take is to sell some of their current bond holdings and leave the
proceeds in an interest bearing cash account or
money -
market fund which might benefit from a rise
in interest rates.
As a defined maturity
fund approaches its liquidation date, the
fund's securities will mature and the
fund may reinvest the
proceeds in money market securities with lower yields than the securities previously held by the
fund.
If you liquidate shares
in a
money market fund, cash must come either from new investors
in the
fund who take your spot, or the
fund has to raise liquidity internally, handing you some of the
proceeds from not entering into an overnight loan.
If the dividends are invested
in a
money market fund, assume you liquidate the
money market fund when the index
fund is sold and treat the
money market fund proceeds as the dividends.
Sell or exchange Vanguard mutual
funds from an account held
in your name and use the
proceeds to purchase shares of your
money market settlement
fund.
Regarding the USD ETF purchases
in my RBC RESP account,
in retrospect I wonder if I could have used NG and instructed the broker to deposit the USD sale
proceeds directly into a USD
money market fund (RBF1003 at Royal Bank).
Now, for investors who signed up for automatic wash trading, the net
proceeds of $ 10,000 (difference between the
proceeds from selling GE of $ 20,000 and buying VEA of $ 10,000) will be parked
in the TD US$
Money Market Fund.
@Henry: To my knowledge, TDW is the only brokerage to offer full wash trading —
in the sense that you can «wash» the
proceeds from a USD sale and park it
in their
money market fund by calling it
in.
Money market funds are typically used as the «sweep account» for clearing brokerage transactions, and investors often keep cash
proceeds in the
fund on a temporary basis while looking for another investment.