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A Turtle With a Piano on it’s Back

A Turtle With a Piano on it’s Back

Stable value funds are soap box racers that now face constraints that will limit their top speed. Our money market funds will soon have the performance attributes of a pinewood derby car dressed up as a turtle, with a smallish piano on its back. I haven’t read the official pinewood derby rule book as of yet, but this does not sound like a winning configuration.

You Can’t Always Get What You Want – But If You Make Other People Wait 24 Months You May Get What You Need

You Can’t Always Get What You Want – But If You Make Other People Wait 24 Months You May Get What You Need

The crux of the unhappiness of the wrap providers is, in their view, forcing a plan to wait a year to withdraw its funds intact from Stable Value Fund ABC isn’t equitable with the interest rate risk being taken by the fund (a 12-month put doesn’t match the potential of a 3% loss of principal).

Bathing in Risk – the 90 Day Equity Wash

Bathing in Risk – the 90 Day Equity Wash

The takeaway for investors is that the paranoia on the part of the stable value managers has resulted in real life limitations. Many employers will offer only a stable value or money market option – not both. If there is no competing option, then there is no need for an equity wash.

What is a Stable Value Fund?

What is a Stable Value Fund?

Stable value and money market funds have more differences than similarities. These differences do not necessarily make one better than the other but it is fair to say that the average stable value fund should credit a higher rate of interest than the average money market fund over the long haul.

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