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CFO April 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan |
More Than Zero With short-term Treasury yields at rock bottom, companies are seeking higher returns for their cash. |
CFO May 1, 2010 Vincent Ryan |
Weighing Your Next Move Finance executives who manage growing pools of idle cash can stand pat with their current investing strategies. Safety and liquidity require constant vigilance -- maybe even more so this year. |
CFO June 15, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
Desperate for Yield Treasurers are seeking the slightest pickup in returns on their short-term cash, provided the risk falls within corporate investment guidelines. |
CFO March 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
CFOs Cast a Wary Eye on Money-Market Changes New SEC proposals offer protections, but at a cost. |
CFO October 1, 2010 Randy Myers |
The Calm Before Reform With sweeping new legislation on the horizon, companies (and their banks) try to gauge the impact. |
FDIC FYI May 19, 2004 |
Effects of Interest Rates on Money Market Mutual Funds The prolonged low interest rate environment has pressured returns on money market mutual funds (MMMFs). Although low rates are a boon to borrowers, the opposite, of course, is true for savers. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2009 Donald Jay Korn |
Better Than Nothing With savings yields low and savers' anxiety high, financial planners are scrambling to find safe places for cash holdings, along with yields that actually enter single-digit territory. |
FDIC FYI February 22, 2006 Nathan Powell |
What the Yield Curve Does (and Doesn't) Tell Us Regardless of the slope of the existing yield curve -- positive, flat, or negative -- bankers will benefit from strategies designed to cope with the uncertainty of changing interest rates. |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Is Your Money Market Fund Safe? When markets are falling and your portfolio is hurting, the last thing you need to worry about is whether your cash is safe. While your risk of losing money in your money market fund is low, there are some things that you should be aware of. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2006 Stan Luxenberg |
In Search of Yield If short-term rates continue rising, clients will be focusing more on how their cash is being employed. The increased attention will pressure advisors to look for creative solutions that will generate extra pennies from cash holdings. |
FDIC FYI |
FYI: An Update on Emerging Issues in Banking Assessing the banking industry's exposure to an implicit government guarantee of gses |
Reason January 2009 Michael Flynn |
Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it. |
Financial Advisor March 2006 Marla Brill |
Mortgage Bonds Offer Mixed Bag A cooling housing market, rising interest rates and regulatory scrutiny have bond fund managers and fixed-income strategists keeping a watchful eye on the direction of the $5.8 trillion mortgage-backed securities market. |
OCC Bulletin May 22, 2002 |
Unsafe and Unsound Investment Portfolio Practices Description: Supplemental Guidance This bulletin alerts banks to the potential risk to future earnings and capital from poor investment decisions made at the current low level of interest rates... |
BusinessWeek June 11, 2009 James Cooper |
Business Outlook: Signs of Progress on the Road to Recovery Improved financial conditions are laying the groundwork for a turnaround as investors' appetite for risk increases. Still, a second-half stumble could halt the momentum. |
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Big-Time Risk on Short-Term Money Short-term bond funds have been billed as an attractive substitute for money-market mutual funds. But as some investors are discovering, these funds aren't risk-free. Yields fluctuate, and you risk losing some principal. |
Registered Rep. February 13, 2012 Stan Luxenberg |
Searching for Yield Yield-starved investors have good reason to be increasingly frustrated. Money-market funds yield next to nothing, and 5-year Treasuries yield less than 1 percent. TIPS sport negative yields. |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Amanda B. Kish |
Money-Market Funds Dial Up the Risk Now that it looks like the worst of the financial crisis is behind us, some managers are getting right back to juicing up portfolio risk. |
CFO June 1, 2008 Vincent Ryan |
Keeping Cash Safe As the economy sputters, companies are striving to maintain their liquidity. |
CFO April 1, 2011 Vincent Ryan |
The Big Fail Despite the reach of Dodd-Frank, the "too-big-to-fail" bank dilemma lives on. |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Over the last two weeks, the commercial-paper market has become the latest casualty... |
Financial Advisor July 2006 Milton Ezrati |
Fixed-Income Conundrum After years in which investors were able to get adequate and attractive real returns with effectively no credit risk, the fixed-income market now offers little yield or potential return. |
The Motley Fool November 29, 2006 Dan Caplinger |
The Inverted Yield Curve and You What current interest rates mean for the average investor. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2007 Randall Dodd |
Subprime: Tentacles of a Crisis The mortgage market turbulence is as much about the breakdown of the structure of U.S. financial markets as it is about bad debt. |
The Motley Fool July 22, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
Get Out of This Investment Right Now There's no point in taking risk for nothing. Despite their reputation, money market funds aren't the right place for your money right now. |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2009 Jordan DiPietro |
Is Your Cash Really Safe? Don't take your eye off your money market mutual fund. Read on to see why. |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2011 Dan Caplinger |
Here's Where You Should Stash Your Cash If you need to hold cash, the better option is an old standby: the bank savings or money market account. |
FDIC FYI January 14, 2003 |
Basel and the Evolution of Capital Regulation: Moving Forward, Looking Back How much capital is enough? How bank regulators have answered this question during the post World War II period has been shaped by two contending strands of thought. |
Financial Advisor June 2008 Eric Uhlfelder |
Searching For Yield Venture just slightly beyond familiar places advisors look for income and advisors can find opportunities in which to find yield. |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Tim Knepp |
The High Yield Influence The meteoric rise of asset prices seen in 2009 was particularly evident across high yield bonds, and 2010 has witnessed another strong year for this asset class. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Agency mortgage bonds suffered their worst month in June in nearly four years... etc. |
Financial Planning October 1, 2006 Donald Jay Korn |
It's a Good Year for Cash With interest rates up and other assets flat or sinking, cash is a winning bet as well as a safe one. |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
The Dumbest Investment You Could Ever Make Why are so many people taking next to nothing for their money right now -- and feeling good about it? |
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 Allan S Roth |
A Safer Source of Alpha For your clients with at least $500,000 in assets, helping them earn an extra 100 to 200 basis points of alpha in fixed income is worthwhile and can generate significant additional risk-adjusted returns. |
BusinessWeek December 2, 2010 Dakin Campbell |
The Humble Saver Rediscovers Banks Consumers are saving more, which is boosting deposits at America's banks. |
U.S. Banker September 2008 Michael Sisk |
Breaking Up is Hard to Do Fannie and Freddie are not only too big to fail, they're too big to leave alone in their current form. A long-term solution that involves shrinking these institutions and severing their ties to the U.S. government is desperately needed. |
Financial Planning June 1, 2006 David A. Twibell |
Curve Ball While an inverted yield curve historically has been an accurate predictor of economic weakness, things may be different this time. |
CFO January 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan |
All Eyes on Treasury The function that no one likes to think about is now getting plenty of attention, and even a little respect. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Don't Fall for Short-Term Bond Funds Short-term bond funds are often touted as a substitute for money market funds. Often, short-term bond funds pay slightly higher interest rates, however, a little more interest isn't worth the risk. |
The Motley Fool January 5, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Climbing Down the Ladder Does bond laddering make sense with an inverted yield curve? |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Another Monster Quarter for Annaly Capital How much longer can Annaly Capital's huge profits last? |
Finance & Development March 2009 Kodres & Narain |
What Is to Be Done While there is enough blame to pass around, one key contributor to the global financial crisis was inadequate regulation. The scope of financial regulation needs to be revamped and the provision of liquidity improved. Here's how. |
Finance & Development December 2010 |
Risky Business Global banks will adapt to the new international rules on capital and liquidity, but at what cost to investors and the financial system? |
The Motley Fool December 26, 2006 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Your latest intelligence from the world of fixed-income bonds. Here is information on the basics and beyond. U.S. Treasury: Price... Yield... 2-Year... 5-Year... Clues to the market... etc. |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: Lately, the Fed has used repos to counteract an excessively restrictive lending environment arising from the subprime crisis... etc. |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Big Irony From a Big Bank JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon not only avoided the bulk of the financial disaster, but also spent years fortifying JPMorgan's balance sheet in case the Big One hit. But now, he makes one big hypocritical statement. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 S.J. Caplan |
Investor 007's Bond Dossier Bond basics and beyond. Spying on rates: U.S. Treasury -- 2-year... 5-year... Clues to the market... Detecting developments... Hot tip: As the summer rolls on, the economic outlook from here calls for sustained, modest growth... |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2008 Chuck Saletta |
A Government Guarantee That You'll Lose Money For the first -- or perhaps second -- time in history, the auction on short-term U.S. Treasury Bills actually had government debt briefly trading at negative yields. |
Financial Advisor May 2006 Marla Brill |
The Inverted Yield Curve Ride Despite assurances that a recession appears unlikely, many investors are taking a cautious stance on the bond market, while giving more play to cash and shorter-term securities. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 13, 2010 |
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt Harvard researchers Robin Greenwood, Samuel Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein propose a "comparative advantage approach" that allows government to actively influence the corporate sector's borrowing decisions. |