Six Advantages of Separately Managed Accounts

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Executive Summary

The complementary use of commingled and separate accounts may help in optimizing corporate cash management.
The percentage of corporate investors considering money market funds as permissible investments has been declining since 2009, while the permissible use of separately managed accounts has been climbing.
Six Advantages of Separately Managed Accounts:

  1. Tailored Risk Management
  2. Transparency
  3. Higher Return Potential
  4. Free from “Hot Money”
  5. Income and Capital Gains Management
  6. Versatile Reporting

Investments in time and research in a separate account relationship may bring just rewards in times of uncertainty.

Introduction

One of the lessons corporate treasurers learned from the recent financial crisis is that, despite their appearance of safety and liquidity, pooled liquidity vehicles, including money market funds, are susceptible to lapses in investor confidence that may lead to runs. In 2007, after early blowups of supposedly conservative “yield-plus” and “ultra-short” funds, several state-owned local government investment pools (LGIPs) froze redemptions due to investments in troubled structured investment vehicles (SIVs). The Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008 forced the $64 billion Reserve Primary Fund to “break the dollar,” the second such instance in the history of money market funds. The U.S. Treasury had to institute an emergency guarantee program to prevent widespread runs on money funds beyond the four fund families that had already implemented fund freezes. These events evoked uneasiness among treasury professionals who routinely used commingled investment vehicles as mainstay cash management tools.
Since we revised the original paper of the same title in December of 2008 and again in May of 2012 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implemented new rule 2a-7 requirements 2014, effective in 2016, which will do away with the constant net asset value (NAV) for institutional prime funds, and also mandate that fund sponsors institute gates or fees under certain conditions. Not surprisingly, the money market fund industry and many institutional shareholders pushed back fiercely, suggesting that these potential reforms could result in a substantial reduction of money fund assets.
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Lance Pan joined Capital Advisors Group in 2003. As Director of Investment Research and Strategy, Lance assesses the risk and relative value of asset classes and credits, creates advanced credit approval and surveillance procedures, issues credit opinions, and provides investment strategy recommendations. Lance oversees Capital Advisors Group’s Credit Committee.

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