Reserve Primary Fund: Investors May Lose

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When solicited to place money with The Reserve, I was assured of its safety and security. This "money market" account income was never even thought to be risky !

Idaho Identity Withheld of ID @ Jan 06, 2009 17:44:02 PM

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Avi Ziv of NY @ Nov 19, 2008 15:07:55 PM

Breaking the Buck

I gave $9,600.00 to my broker at Ferris, Baker and Watts on September 12, 2008; for holding until I could figure out what I wanted my IRA SEP invested in. Ferris, Baker and Watts put it in The Reserve Primary Fund and now they tell me I'm out of luck since the broke the buck and they are not willing to. I called them on September 17, 2008; but they never requested my money or did anything and now they are claiming no liability for my IRA SEP distribution which I entrusted to them. Please comment on this for me.

Jennie of MD @ Sep 24, 2008 14:24:00 PM

Jason,
Were did you hear the Reserve was making all accounts whole?

Mark of OH @ Sep 22, 2008 18:16:52 PM

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Wow, I thought U.S. News and World Report readers knew what they were talking about.
Also, Reserve has already said they are making all accounts whole.

Jason Alexander of MN @ Sep 22, 2008 17:45:33 PM

breaking the buck

reserve is a private company, if bruce bent empties his pockets, which is unlikely, then you will be whole. you are out of luck, as am i.

of @ Sep 22, 2008 13:40:12 PM

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i executed a redemption on wed. for 2 CDs and then they closed and locked the fund for AT LEAST 7 days. Who is gonna pay for my CDs?? I already inqired about a legal action!!

zev of FL @ Sep 21, 2008 18:15:03 PM

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Anyone have any idea what the chances of the Reserve Primary Fund taking action to put everyone back at $1 in the near future.

Robert of CA @ Sep 18, 2008 14:54:06 PM

Money Market Funds

I was lead to believe by unending recomendations that MMDA's were as safe, (and by many accounts, safer than), FDIC! So, I hope that the Reserve Fund = Primary Fund is a good steward and makes each account holder whole. Thank you.

Rodger Marshall of WV @ Sep 17, 2008 22:55:06 PM

Breaking the Buck

There were a couple of inflection points that led us to this point. Remove either of them and a lot of this problem goes away. One was when Investment Banks began buying the collateral themselves to populate "trusts" that they then sold to the public in increasingly complex structures instead of issuing in behalf of a real business entity. The next step was finding someone greedy enough to buy the residual (the equity piece)of the structure which, in effect, took the IB out of the loop, paid their origination fees and freed their capital to replicate these deals ad infinitum. They became their own Treasury printing press as long as there was collateral to be purchased. Retaining no equity interest relived them of any feeling of responsibility so they didn't care where the collateral came from or even if it was creditworthy. My recommendation would to prohibit IB's from being issuer & originator,requiring originators to retain a larger residual and from selling or in any way leveraging their residual piece. The other would be to require creation of an exchange through which all derivatives must clear and disallow off-ballance-sheet accounting going forward. Fail to do any of those things and you have but scotched the snake, not killed it.

Charles of TX @ Sep 17, 2008 15:05:51 PM

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