http://alephblog.com/2008/10/04/a-proposal-for-money-market-funds-and-more/ Helping Institutions and Ordinary People Invest Better by Focusing on Risk Control Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://alephblog.com/2008/10/04/a-proposal-for-money-market-funds-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-19198 Andre Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:09 +0000 http://alephblog.com/?p=998#comment-19198 A problem with this proposal: you assume that retail investors will assess the credit risk in our money-market funds, which is simply not going to happen. We don't know how to. I suppose the ratings services could try to provide this information, doing the same great job they did on CDOs. A problem with this proposal: you assume that retail investors will assess the credit risk in our money-market funds, which is simply not going to happen. We don’t know how to. I suppose the ratings services could try to provide this information, doing the same great job they did on CDOs.

]]> http://alephblog.com/2008/10/04/a-proposal-for-money-market-funds-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-19183 Brian Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:26:07 +0000 http://alephblog.com/?p=998#comment-19183 Thanks for the article David. Would you mind giving us a few examples of Money Market Funds you've found to be safer than others? Thanks for the article David. Would you mind giving us a few examples of Money Market Funds you’ve found to be safer than others?

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