Article: Money Funds Face Derivative Woes

The problems apparently are not over for money market mutual funds that invested in so-called derivative securities, and at least one affected fund may be searching among its peers for a bailout.

Sources at the Investment Company Institute, the Washington-based trade group for mutual funds, say several money funds have contacted the ICI since July 1 asking for advice on how to handle their problems.

In addition, one money fund asked for suggestions on others that might be interested in acquiring it, an ICI official said.

The possibility - some fund experts say probability - of a new round of losses in supposedly safe money market funds may come as a shock to the public, industry ...

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