2 min readCapital Advisors published, “Revisiting Bank Deposits as a Liquidity Solution.” The piece says, “The search for liquidity management solutions reached a new level of significance when institutional prime money market funds were required to float net asset values (NAVs) last fall. While treasury organizations may consider bank deposits as a fallback liquidity solution, regulatory changes,…
6 min readCapital Advisors Group published a paper entitled, “Demystifying Private Liquidity Funds,” which reviews a recent SEC paper on Private Liquidity Funds and recent SEC Statistics on this over $500 billion and little noticed segment of the money markets. CAG’s Lance Pan explains, “Important regulatory changes to institutional prime money market funds are forcing new ideas…
9 min readCapital Advisors Group writes “Using Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) to Ride the Tides of Uncertainty,” which explains, “Recent events serve as a prelude to what is to come from the new administration. Active cash portfolio management with a separate account solution helps manage policy uncertainty, market volatility, headline and geopolitical risk. Fiscal and monetary policies,…
7 min readThe new regulations imposed on money market funds last fall triggered a huge migration of assets out of institutional prime funds. And three months after the changes took effect, institutional investors still seem to be wary of heading back into prime funds. More than $1 trillion in assets exited institutional prime funds after the Securities…
18 min readAsset managers may have an information advantage over dealers in bond pricing Need To Know Asset managers are emerging as effective liquidity providers in credit markets. “The most competitive pricing is from the buy side right now,” says a European bank’s head of bond execution services. Some say this is because the buy side has…
7 min readOctober 14 has come and gone and there are a couple money market fund trends that may bode well for prime money market funds. One is that spreads between institutional prime and government MMFs have widened since the October 14 implementation of new SEC rules. The second is that prime fund portfolios’ weighted average maturities…
4 min readA press release entitled, “ICD Releases Essential MMF Reform Solutions for Corporations, which says, “Institutional Cash Distributors (ICD) today announced the release of Transparency Plus 6.0 providing several key on-line and reporting enhancements that are necessary for corporate treasury practitioners to effectively manage portfolios that include institutional prime money market funds.” Among the highlights: it…
3 min readBOSTON, October 20, 2016 – Today, Capital Advisors Group, Inc. announced the availability of its new Capital Advisors Group Insured Liquidity AccountsSM. Capital Advisors Group Insured Liquidity AccountsSM provide each account holder with up to $100 million in deposit insurance backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Government via one convenient account, and…
4 min read Assets have been flowing out of institutional prime money funds ahead of the Oct. 14 implementation of new regulations that will require prime funds to adopt a floating net asset value (NAV). At the same time, though, a recent survey of finance executives suggests some are warming up to the idea of funds with…
4 min readNEW YORK and BOSTON, July 13, 2016 – Today, Capital Advisors Group, Inc. announced the launch of the Capital Advisors Group Insured Liquidity AccountsSM in partnership with StoneCastle Cash Management, LLC (‘StoneCastle’). By utilizing StoneCastle’s Federally Insured Cash Account (FICA®) platform, the new Capital Advisors Group Insured Liquidity AccountsSM will have access to deposit insurance, backed…