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4 safe and inflation-beating ways to beat those sinking yields on money-market funds

johnNjohnN
edited July 2020 in The Bullpen
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/4-safe-ways-to-beat-those-sinking-money-market-fund-yields-2020-06-30

4 safe and inflation-beating ways to beat those sinking yields on money-market funds

By Mark Hulbert


These low-risk vehicles give you a positive after-inflation rate on your money


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It’s possible to squeeze more yield out of the cash you are keeping on the sidelines. That’s important, because long gone are the days when you could earn even one percent from a money-market fund. In fact, yields consistently have been below 0.5% for the past decade; nowadays the average national money market fund yield is just 0.09%.
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