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Money Market Assets Hit Record High: $5.4 Trillion

May 26, 2023 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

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Investors looking for alternatives to low-interest-rate bank accounts have flooded money market accounts with their cash. Harriet Clarfelt and Kate Duguid report in the Financial Times:

US money market fund assets have swelled to a record high this week, as the best yields available in years and the early May collapse of First Republic Bank kept investors piling into the low-risk vehicles.

Total net assets in money market funds, which invest in high-quality, short-dated debt, reached almost $5.4tn as of Wednesday, according to data from the Investment Company Institute. The figure is up from less than $5.3tn in late April and $4.8tn at the start of the year.

Investors have rushed into money market funds this year due to the increasingly high yields on offer, particularly in government vehicles, fuelled by the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive campaign of interest rate rises in decades.

Most of the assets reported by ICI sit in government-focused vehicles, which hold Treasury bills that are deemed to be very low risk.

According to EPFR, another data provider, money market funds have so far absorbed roughly $146bn in May, putting the month on track to have had the second-highest inflows since April 2020, when panicked investors flooded in.

In March, money market funds received a massive $370bn as the regional Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed, raising questions about the health of the wider sector.

For Shelly Antoniewicz, senior economist at the ICI, rapid inflows into money market funds early this month were likely related to the demise of California-based First Republic, which had $93.5bn of deposits before it was shut down and largely sold to JPMorgan Chase at the beginning of May.

The flood of cash into money market funds has continued even as pressure on the banking system has eased and attention has turned to the prospects of a US government default if lawmakers in Washington fail to reach a deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling. The prices of bills maturing around the time that the US is expected to run out of cash have plummeted, sending yields above 7 per cent.

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Jeremy Jones, CFA, CFP® is the Director of Research at Young Research & Publishing Inc., and the Chief Investment Officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. CNBC has ranked Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. as one of the Top 100 Financial Advisors in the nation (2019-2022) Disclosure. Jeremy is also a contributing editor of youngresearch.com.
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