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Article: Money Markets Celebrate 30 Years
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- October 9, 2001
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LISA SINGHANIA, AP Business Writer
AP Online
10-09-2001
Money Markets Celebrate 30 Years
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thirty years ago this month, Americans got a new place to stash their cash -- money market mutual funds.
The first such fund opened to investors in 1971, with the debut of the Reserve Fund. Today there are an estimated 1,042 U.S. money market funds, with assets totaling more than $2 trillion, according to the Investment Company Institute, a mutual fund industry group. Money market funds also have become a huge part of the mutual fund industry, accounting for nearly a third of all fund assets.
Investors like money market funds because they generally offer higher rates of return than a ...