Peter Crane
Peter Crane
Sir Peter Crane, FRSis a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society, a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2002. He was awarded a knighthood on 12 June 2004...
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The saying goes, it's not bulls, not bears, but chickens who put their money in cash; they park it there and wait for better opportunities, ... So those chicken investors, and retirees and income investors, have reason to be thrilled about the rates, because for the first time in a while they're going to be paid decently to sit there.
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They're getting into a range where, with no risk, their returns are competitive with long-term returns of bonds and equities that are higher, but are much more volatile.
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The main attraction of money-market funds is their liquidity and their constant share value. But if they have an investment that goes south on them, there's a chance that they could be valued at 99 cents per share, 98 cents per share.
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Is the retail investor better off in a money market or an insured account? The jury is still out.
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Why shouldn't America, and American children, have the same level of protection that kids do in France and Germany and Poland and Russia and Armenia and Ireland and Norway and a host of other countries?
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We're seeing interest in cash for the first time since 2001, practically, and we expect the interest to only grow as rates continue to rise. Yields are still digesting the Aug. 9 Fed hike and be- ginning to anticipate an almost certain Sept. 20 rise, so we should see yields break through 3 percent and keep going.