Money Market Funds

Optimism abounds among individual investors, which helps supports a case for another stock market milestone.As roughly $85 million moved out of money market funds over the past three months, at least half went into equity mutual funds — a bullish indicator, according to Jeffrey Kleintop, chief

The Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund industry's main trade group, last week said that federal regulators exceeded their legal authority in urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to overhaul rules for money market funds.

William McNabb, chief executive of The Vanguard Group Inc., wants the Financial Stability Oversight Council to stay out of the battle over money market fund regulation.

McNabb tells oversight committee additional money market reform is purview of SEC; 'appropriate agency'

Six big mutual fund companies last week agreed to disclose the daily NAV of their money funds, an unusual show of unity among rivals aimed at heading off the threat of stricter regulation.

Industry giant Fidelity is the latest to consider moving to a more timely valuation of its money market funds.

Goldman and BlackRock to begin publishing daily net asset value of funds; 'a whole lot of nines and zeros'

Bruce Bent and his son were cleared Monday of fraud charges stemming from the Primary Reserve Money Market Fund's breaking the buck in 2008.

Contrary to what InvestmentNews suggests in the editorial “Time to brace for new money market rules” (Oct. 7), the radical changes to money market funds being promoted by SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are far from a done deal.

SEC opponent of earlier money fund reform now backs floating NAV; tide turning?

Gun-shy clients are tuned out to the stock market these days. Proof? Well, besides yanking billions from equity funds, they also believe the S&P 500 has declined each of the last three years -- thus missing out on an extended bull market.