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The Wall Street Journal writes "Schapiro: Money-Fund Plan Would Give Funds Options". It says, "
A Securities and Exchange Commission plan to shore up the $2.5 trillion money-market fund industry would give funds a choice between holding more capital and being more transparent to investors about fluctuations in the value of their holdings, SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro said Thursday. Money funds, under a plan being reviewed by the SEC'
s five commissioners, would have the option of maintaining a small capital cushion coupled with restrictions on investors seeking to pull out their money or abandoning the stable $
1-
per-
share net asset value that funds strive to maintain, Ms. Schapiro said in a U.
S. House hearing." The Journal quotes Schapiro, "
Those would be choices that funds could choose between." It adds, "
Talking to reporters after the hearing, Ms. Schapiro declined to give further details other than indicating that the size of the capital buffer would be far less than the 3% to 5% that some critics had feared." See also,
Bloomberg's "The SEC Chairman's Crusade for Money-Fund Safety".