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Speaker 1: forced money market fund migration stand to profit handsomely. Pim Yes.
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Speaker 1: on Bloomberg Radio. Government forced money market fund my gration.
Speaker 1: Some who don't participate stand to profit handsomely, and yet
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people seem to be hitting
Speaker 1: in that direction. So what is the red light that
Speaker 1: our next guest is holding up. We're very happy to
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show Hanley Smith. He's senior vice
Speaker 1: president at Vanderbilt. So good afternoon, sir, thank you for
Speaker 1: having me back. Thank you, well, it's great to have you,
Speaker 1: great to have you in studio. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: what is going on with the regulations that are changing
Speaker 1: set the table for us, No, we'll starting October, the
Speaker 1: SEC is instituting new rules on what's called money market
Speaker 1: funds or in the trade to a seven funds, and
Speaker 1: I won't get too technical, but it's a two point
Speaker 1: seven trillion dollar market that's being rewritten. UM. Prime money
Speaker 1: market funds which use commercial paper repo, those types of things,
Speaker 1: non government types of holdings, will be to do one
Speaker 1: of three things. Number one, they'll float their net asset value.
Speaker 1: Now we've all grown up with the one dollar in
Speaker 1: one dollar rout. That's changing just for prime money market funds.
Speaker 1: And more to the point, which I think is what's
Speaker 1: getting people concerned, is if the money fund gets in
Speaker 1: any kind of distress, which is unusual, but it did
Speaker 1: happen in two thousand and eight. As we know that
Speaker 1: the fund can institute redemption fees or can actually gate
Speaker 1: the redemptions. So a lot of corporate treasures and CFOs
Speaker 1: that typically use. Prime money market funds are migrating out
Speaker 1: of those types of funds into government only funds, which
Speaker 1: will continue to have the one dollar rena V without
Speaker 1: the requirements of gating or redemption fees. So that's where
Speaker 1: you're seeing this migration. So I think it was maybe
Speaker 1: the spring or probably earlier the summer, where prime funds
Speaker 1: were always much higher in terms of assets. Now that's switched,
Speaker 1: so you're starting to see that great migration. And what
Speaker 1: it's happening and what's it's causing is that the types
Speaker 1: of assets that's usually invest in prime money funds are
Speaker 1: getting cheaper because people are selling them. So I think
Speaker 1: that there's an opportunity for those investors that want to
Speaker 1: remain in those types of assets to to benefit. And
Speaker 1: you're starting to see that three month library one month
Speaker 1: labrary has popped up. You're starting to see prime money
Speaker 1: market funds as well as those that you separately managed accounts,
Speaker 1: starting to see much greater yields than you've seen over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years because of this migration. Let's
Speaker 1: say you're an individual that has a money market account
Speaker 1: as part of your brokerage account, your overall portfolio. I
Speaker 1: know that it's not a bank account. But many people
Speaker 1: you and I were just talking about this before you
Speaker 1: came on. Many people treat it like a bank account
Speaker 1: because you can write checks against it. You can also
Speaker 1: use a credit or debit card against it. What are
Speaker 1: some of the questions that if you have a money
Speaker 1: market fund, what kind of detailed answers do you need
Speaker 1: in order to understand whether any of this is going
Speaker 1: to affect you. Well, first of all, you're right, they've
Speaker 1: been sold for so many years as as dollar good,
Speaker 1: so it's a savings account to many people, and that's
Speaker 1: the way it's been sold for forty years. Uh. In
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight where we had the hiccup so
Speaker 1: to speak, that those all those rules changed. But people
Speaker 1: have to remember it's not a saving as account. It's
Speaker 1: actually an investment portfolio with investments underneath that actually fluctuate.
Speaker 1: Now they might be short term three months, nine months,
Speaker 1: so the fluctuations are minimal, but still they do. And
Speaker 1: I think where the real concern is because of the
Speaker 1: cost of running some of these funds. Due to the
Speaker 1: extra regulations. UH, some of these money funds have stretched
Speaker 1: into areas where they haven't normally have been to get
Speaker 1: some yield into the portfolio. So first and foremost you'll
Speaker 1: get a statement, or you'll get our perspectives, or you'll
Speaker 1: get a quarterly report on the money fund. Take a
Speaker 1: look at it. Um. We do a lot of investing
Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt Avenue for family offices and high net worth individuals,
Speaker 1: and if you do what We've looked at some of
Speaker 1: these portfolios, and I saw one recently where I looked
Speaker 1: at the portfolio. Half of the assets I didn't understand
Speaker 1: what they were and the other half I wouldn't own
Speaker 1: if I would. So it's important, um, for those in
Speaker 1: the industry as well as in the retail sector, just
Speaker 1: to take a look at the portfolio. Are you comfortable
Speaker 1: with those those assets? Okay? So who's to blame or
Speaker 1: who's causing this? Because it seems that people are yield
Speaker 1: hungry right understandably. Uh, the Federal Reserve keeping the key
Speaker 1: rate just off zero, that's one side of it. The
Speaker 1: other side, though, is all the regulation that the Dodd
Speaker 1: Frank legislation piled onto just about any kind of entity
Speaker 1: doing business in the financial services industry. Yeah, check one,
Speaker 1: end two, Because again I think we've been in an
Speaker 1: artificial environment because of the low rates, because of all
Speaker 1: the uh QEI and the things that we've talked about
Speaker 1: for so many years keeping these rates down, and so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of unintended consequences that could arise from
Speaker 1: coming back off of you know, normalization policy or whatever
Speaker 1: might But you're right, there's been a lot of regulations
Speaker 1: to camp clamp down on these particular types of funds,
Speaker 1: and so we're we're just concerned as a firm that
Speaker 1: again people treated as a bank account when it truly isn't.
Speaker 1: And the thing that I would just be cautious of
Speaker 1: is because of all the uncertainty and the volatility we've
Speaker 1: seen in the markets over the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: people have been holding on to a lot more cash
Speaker 1: just to feel comfortable. So pre two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: where cash was a couple of percentages points of my
Speaker 1: portfolio and it was on a money market fund and
Speaker 1: it was okay, and I didn't have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: Post two thousand eight, that's changed with a lot of investors.
Speaker 1: We're seeing cash could be anywhere from twenty of the portfolio,
Speaker 1: and uh, what that's forcing them to do is go
Speaker 1: places where they wouldn't normally be, and that's where the
Speaker 1: problem comes up. Thank you very much. Henley Smith is
Speaker 1: senior vice president Vanderbilt Avenue Asset Management. They're based in
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