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Bond Liquidity Risk Defused by Cash

Rising interest rates unlikely to cause mass exodus of $3.5 trillion in U.S. fixed-income funds.

By Cordell Eddings, Bloomberg | Updated on August 18, 2014

The record $3.5 trillion stockpiled in U.S. fixed-income funds is raising the specter the bond market will buckle under the strain of redemptions once interest rates rise. Simple math suggests there’s little need to worry.

While fund assets have almost doubled since the financial crisis, their size as a portion of all U.S. mutual funds is still in line with the 21 percent average over the past three decades, according to Investment Company Institute (ICI). Debt fund managers also hold almost 9 percent of assets in cash—close to the highest in a quarter-century and more than the maximum rate of outflows in 1994, one of the worst years for bonds.

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