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...The test also requires shareholders, bond holders and uninsured depositors to absorb losses ahead of the FDIC, which contributes to market discipline....
...Peter Crane, who has been collecting and publishing data on the US money fund market for 18 years, said the pile-in shows “no signs of stopping”....
...It also spawned financial titans like Fidelity and Vanguard and thousands of smaller competitors that together employ hundreds of thousands of people....
...And that means it’s helpful for governments and companies to hold on to plenty of reserves of dollar-denominated investments....
...The seven large funds are controlled by just four parent companies — Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan, BlackRock and Vanguard. 18 months ago, JPMorgan MMFs had the biggest market share, with $340bn, but now...
...Alex Wright, who manages Fidelity International’s UK Fund, says he often looks for like-for-like comparisons between UK stocks and roughly equivalent stocks from elsewhere, where the UK half of the pair...
...The most popular funds, those tracking the S&P 500, the total US stock market and the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond index, cost an average of just 0.03 per cent per year....
...Others have cut fees, closed or merged their funds, including the £1.2bn consolidation agreed by Fidelity and Abrdn last year....
...SVB was brought down by a huge portfolio of government bonds — which had no credit risk but massive, unhedged interest rate risk — and its base of uninsured depositors who swiftly ran for the exits....
...Additionally, concerns about the stability of regional bank deposits persist, possibly leading them to sell bonds if deposits decrease....
...And the ability of companies to service their debt is also starting to appear more strained....
...But how do these companies make serious profits out of it? One example, says Shaw of Fidelity, is Microsoft....
...Higher rates hit banks in 2023, raising deposit costs and lowering the value of their bond portfolios....
...keep a reserve of silver or gold equal to a third of their deposits and circulating banknotes....
...to recoup their deposits, “the harm to customers, lenders, and investors is zero”....
...There followed a deposit run of hitherto unimaginable speed at SVB and other regional banks....
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