ICI's latest weekly "Money Market Mutual Fund Assets" report show that assets increased by $43.88 billion to a record $3.681 trillion the week ended Wednesday, Nov. 19. Money fund assets rose for the ninth consecutive week, following two weeks of declines due to Reserve Primary's "breaking the buck" and have increased by $225 billion since Sept. 24. Retail assets rose by $8.41 billion to $1.273 trillion, while Institutional assets rose by $35.47 billion to $2.408 billion. Prime Institutional assets increased by over 2% for the second consecutive week, gaining $24.5 billion to $1.098 trillion. In other news, see WSJ' "Treasury Will Help Liquidate Reserve Fund".