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Article: LIQUIDITY: Cash Comes In, Cash Goes Out; Funds Find Ways to Put Money to Work.(Investors & Investing)
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- The Bond Buyer
- Article date:
- August 19, 2009
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Byline: Dan Seymour
With a gusher of new money and seemingly few alluring opportunities on which to spend it, one might guess municipal bond mutual funds would be sitting on a ton of cash.
One would be wrong.
Muni fund managers are finding ways to spend the record sums of money they are attracting from investors, based on liquidity ratios and interviews with fund managers and analysts.
At least once a quarter, mutual funds report a "liquidity ratio," which shows the percentage of fund assets held in cash.
A spike in liquidity might indicate managers do not see many worthwhile opportunities, or expect a wave of redemptions. A ...