By Investment U Research Team If you’re looking to make a relatively short-term, safe investment, money markets offer plenty of incentive. These markets are very accessible to most people, and participating in them is as easy as opening a special type of savings account. You don’t even need to worry about buying or selling securities—financial institutions do it for you. As a result, they rarely seem like an investment product.
Make no mistake, however: the money market is an investment market. The investments are short-term and low risk, which means they also offer lower reward. They’re more often seen as a type of fixed-income product, …read more
