Treasurers stick with money-market funds in uncertain environment

Proposed regulatory changes will not dull treasurers’ appetite for money-market funds, even if interest rates are cut more aggressively than expected.

Inflows to UK money-market funds in November 2023 totalled £525 million, bringing the amount allocated to these funds in the first 11 months of last year to more than the total for the previous eight years combined, according to data from funds network Calastone.

It is the same story on the other side of the Atlantic, with around $1.2 trillion finding its way into US money-market funds between January and November last year, pushing total assets to an all-time high.

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