Money markets hit record high
Records, as they say, are made to be broken. But some seem so out of reach we don’t pay attention to them until they are nearly upon us. Think baseball legend Cal Ripken’s consecutive games-played streak, US swimmer Katie Ledecky’s gold medals or basketball star LeBron James’ career points. That’s the case with the record […]
Another banner year for liquidity?
2025 Outlook
FedSpeak – Liquidity webcast Q4 2024
This webcast has been produced by Federated Hermes Inc. and originally aired live on 7th of November 2024. Learn more about our liquidity solutions. Share: BD014909
Fuzzy picture
A common misconception about money market products is that they are only concerned with short-term economic developments because daily liquidity is a defining feature. But cash managers seek to gain higher yields than deposit products by investing across a longer time horizon, often out to a year. Noise in the data and news is no […]
Your Questions Answered: managing cash and liquidity
Why do people choose Federated Hermes to manage their cash? Video transcript Investors choose Federated Hermes to manage their cash for many different reasons, one of which is we’ve been a leader in the industry since it began. Money markets began in product form, from a money market fund standpoint, back in the mid 1970s […]
Sky high
The Chicken Little1 predictions that the US Federal Reserve easing cycle would lead to an exodus of assets from liquidity products have been proven wrong. Money market funds across the industry alone have experienced inflows of around US$150bn since the Fed cut rates by 50bps in mid-September to a range of 4.75-5%. It’s another case […]
A falling rate environment
Video transcript Ina falling rate interest environment, it’s actually on a flow basis, from an assets under management standpoint, a positive situation in the marketplace for money market funds. Despite what has been thought of from a media perspective as being a wall of cash that will start to exit money market funds in a […]
FedSpeak – Liquidity webcast Q3 2024
This webcast has been produced by Federated Hermes Inc. and originally aired live on 19th of September, 2024. Learn more about our liquidity solutions. Share:
Here we go again
It should be no surprise when the financial markets get ahead of themselves. And we don’t need to be an expert at behavioural economics to know rational investors don’t exist. But that doesn’t make it any less frustrating when traders get over their skis, adding volatility and detracting from liquidity in the market. Just as […]
The Fed’s balancing act
One way US Federal Reserve leaders stay on message is to repeat words. Chair Jerome Powell certainly does, though sometimes the soundbites come back to haunt him – remember “transitory”? In the last few Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings, he struck a cadence with “confidence”; at 31 July’s post-meeting press conference, it was “balance.” […]
