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What are the characteristics of a Money Market Fund?


What are the characteristics of a Money Market Fund?

money market- are the short term fixed income securities, which is: Treasury bills, that is very liquid, they are trading in big denominations, its zero-coupon bonds. Money market Fund means that you can invest a little amount of money while institutions will by this Treasury bills and pay you the difference. But i would not advice to invest in them that is government-no risk-less yield.

i'm being seriuos here. if you have to ask people on Yahoo, DO NOT INVEST YET!

They pool short term commercail paer & perhaps some short term govt bills. They keep the share price at a constant $1 for simplicity. No gain or loss just interest from the paper they hold accrues to the shares on a daily basis though not normally credited to you until end of the month or the like.

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