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Article: SEC, ICI: Rules on money funds contain flaws; But they differ on changes that should be made.
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- Investment News
- Article date:
- March 30, 2009
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Byline: David Hoffman
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Investment Company Institute agree that changes need to be made to the agency's rules governing money market funds, but they don't necessarily agree on what those changes should be.
Both groups said during the Washington-based ICI's Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference last week in Palm Desert, Calif., that they think the rules are flawed.
And money funds pose "systemic risk'' to the market,'' Robert E. Plaze, associate director of the Division of Investment Management at the SEC, said during a panel discussion at the conference.
On Sept. 16, the Reserve ...