Money Fund Assets Continue Setting Records

Assets in money market funds continued to climb last week to yet another record, fueled by gains in both retail and institutional categories.

As of July 26, these funds held $724.6 billion, or $1.74 billion more than in the previous week, according to the Investment Company Institute, the fund industry's trade group.

Assets at the nations's 691 retail money market mutual funds grew by $640 million, to $504.82 billion. This growth was powered by flows into taxable retail funds, which gained $1.03 billion on the week for a total of $405 billion. Assets in tax-exempt retail funds declined by $391.4 million, to $99.82 billion.

Assets of the 300 institutional money market funds increased by $1.10 billion, to $219.78 billion at July 26. Taxable institutional funds grew by $1.29 billion during the week, to $195.08 billion.

Assets in tax-exempt institutional funds fell $195.5 million, to $24.7 billion.

The ICI reports the assets of money market funds to the Federal Reserve Board each week and makes the data available weekly to the public, as well.

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