While most money market funds will pay higher levels of income as interest rates rise, they do not necessarily invest in floating rate instruments alone. FRNs were first issued by the U.S ...

In her column, "It's Time for Money Funds to Fess Up About Fluctuating Values," Barbara Rehm seems too intent on promoting regulations "that could make money funds miserable," regardless of their ...

A closer look at one money-market fund that has already allowed its shares to float suggests that worries among treasurers about price fluctuations, at least, may be overblown.

This is well illustrated by the nearly $2.7 trillion in money market fund shares at the end of 2011 compared to just $280 billion in short-term bond funds with a floating NAV, despite the latter ...

A floating net asset value on money market funds could cause operational and accounting issues that would deter money fund investors and potentially divert money toward short-duration bond ...

Money has lacked a golden anchor for 40 years. It has proved a stupendous failure.

The fund giants said that unhitching money market funds from the $1-per-share tether would harm the funds and scare investors. They have a point. An overnight switch to floating-rate NAVs probably ...

U.S. regulators are discussing whether to abandon the $1-per-share standard value long used by money market funds, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said on Thursday.