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Sponsor Support Key to Keeping Value for Money Funds

Sponsors pumped $12.1 billion into money funds during crisis, Moody's says.

By staff Writer | Updated on September 02, 2010

If treasurers aren’t already having trouble sleeping, a Moody’s Investors Service report on the effects of the financial crisis on money market funds could well lead to insomnia. Moody’s says that between 2007 and 2009, as volatility and illiquidity spread through the financial system, no fewer than 36 money market funds in the U.S. and another 26 in Europe failed to maintain a constant net asset value (CNAV). Those events, coupled with Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy in September 2008, led to the collapse of the Reserve’s Primary Fund and redemption restrictions on 31 other money market funds.

“The Reserve Primary Fund breaking the buck was a watershed event,” says Lance Pan, director of investment research at Capital Advisors Group. Pan says treasurers are getting pickier about where to park their money, but he worries that they may end up relying on a money fund’s logo rather than performing their due diligence. “There was a misconception that the money funds were safe because no other fund had broken the buck, but that was not true,” says Pan.

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