http://rawfinanceblog.com/2008/10/16/the-difference-between-money-market-accounts-and-money-market-mutual-funds/ Common sense economic and financial industry analysis for everyone, from banking and investment professionals to individual investors. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rawfinanceblog.com/2008/10/16/the-difference-between-money-market-accounts-and-money-market-mutual-funds/#comment-18 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:50:19 +0000 http://rawfinance.wordpress.com/?p=134#comment-18 [...] Both certificates of deposit and money market accounts (not money market mutual funds) are time deposits offered by financial institutions and are generally covered by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. deposit insurance. The FDIC insurance limit was recently increased from $100,000 to $250,000 (full details here). [...]

]]> http://rawfinanceblog.com/2008/10/16/the-difference-between-money-market-accounts-and-money-market-mutual-funds/#comment-8 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:16:10 +0000 http://rawfinance.wordpress.com/?p=134#comment-8 [...] Money market mutual funds generally invest in commercial paper and government debt instruments.  In September, when investors became increasingly concerned about the credit crisis and its impact on the commercial paper, they began pulling their assets from money market mutual funds.  As described in my original post, money market mutual funds are not covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., like their money market deposit account cousins.  (For more on this, please link to my previous post here.) [...]

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