Cash Continues Supreme Rule

As the stock market continues to close as high as 300 points higher or lower in recent weeks, mutual fund portfolio managers are increasingly hoarding cash or liquid cash-equivalent investments. Even bellwether Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet has 13% of his portfolio in cash.

But the unusually high levels of cash some mutual fund skippers are stockpiling, in some cases 40%, 50% of their portfolio, is “irking advisers,” reports The Wall Street Journal in today’s Fund Track column.

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