All Possible Moves Open to an Investment Manager

when you play chess it's pretty easy to catalog all of the possible moves that you can make in a given turn. yes, things get more complicated once you start to look further down the line, but your next move is going to be one of a fairly easy-to-list number of possibilities. If you're running a hedge fund, though, you have an enormous number of potential moves. In fact, just trying to catalog the different moves open to you seems like a huge undertaking. In this thread I'm going to try to do just that.

Money Market Funds

2012.03.19 - SEC speech on money market funds
http://www.sec.gov/news/speech/2012/spch031912ebw.htm


Municipal Bonds

SEC guide to municipal bonds for investors
http://www.sec.gov/investor/alerts/municipalbonds.htm

SEC - The state of the Municipal Securities market (links)
http://sec.gov/spotlight/municipalsecurities.shtml

2012.03.20 - SEC news release saying that broker-dealers aren't doing enough due diligence on municipal bonds (w/ a link to a pdf guide to doing due diligence on muni bonds)
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2012/2012-48.htm


Exchange-Traded Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_note

NYTimes - The Trouble With ETNs
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/ ... m_20120329