While browsing
Reed Smith's "Money Market Research and Compliance Page" (
yesterday'
s "
Link of the Day"), we ran into a perhaps timely 6-
page PDF,
"Events Requiring Action by a Money Market Fund". The brief explains
what money funds must do in the event of a default or downgrade, actions which include dumping the security or taking action in the "
best interest of the fund and its shareholders".
We don't expect bailouts, and certainly no breaking-the-buck, over the subprime implosion. But, as the
safest and most liquid of securities, money funds must always be prepared.