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You answered all the questions I had about my money market account perfectly. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the daily videos as I watch them everytime you release a new one. You are so precise to explain everything and I love it!

My Fidelity Core was allocated to FDIC. And only yielded 2.47%. I just switched it to SPAXX.

Excellent video! I just switched from FCash to SPAXX as my core position--thanks to you!

I have to say thank you for this. I have been in FCash for so many years with quite some cash in it 😢 now I just checked and switched all

Thank you very much.... I learned a lot with your videos. God bless you...

Thank you for this! Presentation was very clear and the speed of your delivery was perfect!

WOW! Thank you so much! I too was stuck on the bank sweep in my 401k from a decision a long time ago. I've been enjoying lots of your videos lately, thank you!

Really clear and informative -- thank you! I've become interested in munis in general as well as muni MM mutual funds.

Yes, please do a similar video for Schwab money market funds.

Thanks for explaining the options. I'm interested in understanding how a bond fund has a 30 day yield and the distributions are different.

You are so good at explaining everything. thank you so much.

As a long-time Fidelity customer, I can tell you that if you have SPAXX as your core account and let's say you also have some money in another money market fund within the same account and you make a trade but don't have the funds in SPAXX to cover the purchase, they will take it from the other fund. It all shows up as funds available to trade.

Yes please give us info on municipal money market funds. This is all new to me and I'm so interested. I am just about to begin transferring 401K funds into Fidelity

Great video! It gives me more information and options than my financial advisors gave me on these core accounts. I’ll have to talk to them about that 😮. Yes please, a video on municipal funds would be helpful. Thanks.

Yes to info on municipal money market funds!

Ma'am. Thank you very much. This is a great lesson for cash management.

Always wondered what to do with the leftover from a t-bill purchase. Now I’ll just let the cash sit in spaxx til the next t-bill purchase even if a month away. Thank you very much!

i follow exactly what you mentioned here. FDRXX is my parked cash. When i choose to invest in T bill / brokered CD i use the funds from there. When the funds mature they come into FDRXX thus i get consistently above 4.74% and as high as 5.4 in t Bills.

Jennifer, thank you for sharing your knowledge - especially for small investors like me!

Yes, please for Vanguard and Charles Schwab

Definitely would love to hear more about the Money Market Municipal Funds!

Thanks! Never realized I had a choice and I just changed it all to SPAXX

Thank you for the valuable information. Please include options with Vangard in future videos.

Thanks for the video and shining some light on Fideiity's cash sweep accounts, Jennifer! All of my Fidelity accounts are set to sweep set to SPAXX. I have a small taxable account at Fidelity to hold some cash, like another tier of savings. I try to throw $100 every two weeks in there. It's filling very slowly because I am focusing on Treasuries. SPAXX's rate may not be the highest of the high but it's still way more than my what my bank and credit union offer.

Great video. One question: when interest rates begin to drop next year (hopefully) will the value of the treasuries go down like bonds?

Also very interested in an overview for Schwab as well , thank you!!!

Thank you again for your valuable information... best info on KZfaq!

I just discovered your channel & I found you and it Absolutely Excellent 💯 ❤️

Yep, I transferred all of my TD Ameritrade accounts to Fidelity in January and have not regretted it. And, I have SPAXX in all of the accounts. I also have the BIL ETF in some of the accounts for additional near cash investment for monthly interest.

Would love to learn Vanguard money mkt fund, thanks for the super informative videos!

This is a really informative video. Thank you!

Holy moly, I was just thinking about this subject, and considering whether to park some cash in a high yield savings or just park it in fidelity. Your video came out at the perfect time. The fact the yield considers the expense ratio and that it’s mostly exempt from taxes pushed it over the edge for me. Thank you!

Please do Charles Schwab. I haven’t gotten into Money Market Funds yet just Tbills. Love your content!!!

Your take on a similar opportunity with Schwab would be great!

Vanguard Money Market at 5.06%. Not bad. Holding cash makes some sense .

First time on your channel and very impressed by your informative and no-nonsense summary of the Fidelity Money Market Fund options. If you haven’t already done Schwab and Vanguard, might as well break it down. Thanks.

I would really like to learn more about fidelity Municipal money-market funds specifically state level funds. I really appreciate this information!

your information is very helpful 👍🏿

Thank you -This is what I have...Learning Learning

Regarding timezones: I agree you should use EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) rather than EST, (Eastern Standard Time) since EST is 1 hour behind, but until November 5, 2023 most people on the East Coast (New York, for instance) are observing EDT. Yes, you should also use PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) until November as well. Most people just ignore when the wrong term is used since they just interpret it to mean whatever time is currently being observed. There are some instances when it can cause issues, however so better to be accurate. Alternatively, you could just use Eastern Time or Pacific Time and then the assumption would correspond to the currently observed time (daylight savings or not).

This was great! I really hope you do a similar video for Schwab!

Your content is really super helpful 😀

Thanks! Moved from Cash to Spaxx with your assistance.

Thank you as always! Interesting the detail about less STATE tax liability and the emphasis on IMMEDIATE access and your including SIPC reminder. I plan to use this account more to my advantage; had not fully appreciated this alternative to banks & credit unions.

I just opened a Fidelity account and have SPRX as my core position.

I have Vanguard and glad I am finally getting 5%. It was crime of the century (one of many) that companies were getting free money for 10+ years buying up everything in sight.

yes --please do a video on schwab and VG😉

Please do a similar video for Schwab and Vanguard money market funds. I appreciate your excellent videos.

Thank you so much for this great infomation. 👍👍👍

yes info on Vanguard please

Yes, please do a Schwab core money market fund.

Yes please for Vanguard. I LOVE ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS! HUGE FAN!

5:58 Great helpful information. Thanks!

Yes, Vanguard please, thanks

Thank you for all you do for us. If you would show us how Schab does that would be nice.

I would also appreciate a video on Vanguard and Schwab.

I have brokered cds with Fidelity and the core sweep account is the low yield cash mentioned. However, there's no option to change it! As for my brokerage account, yes the cord account is spaxx.

I am interested in similar Schwab information.

These money market funds all hold about 30% in US government securities, so about 70% of the fund returns are taxable. Note that in California, Connecticut, and New York these funds do not hold enough government securities to be tax exempt. So in those states 100% of the fund returns are subject to state and local taxes.

Thank you for the very useful information! I looked at my Fidelity account and discovered when I transferred funds to Fidelity and an agent opened a cash account for me the agent put most of the money in a sweep account on which I make zilch. Moved it all into SPAXX.

Would appreciate a review of Schwab MMKT. Thanks

Thanks I’ve learned a few things.

Great video!

Thank you so much! I joined Fidelity due to your videos! Please make similar videos for Schwab and Vanguard which I have too

Please also do similar for Schwab, thyou - really get so much from your videos

Definitely Charles Schwab please. Love your videos, Thank you.

Excellent video!! I was always confused by this and how to change it. By default, Fidelity had made my Core position, in FDIC-Insured Deposit Sweep. I changed to FDRXX.

Thanks immensely

I just setup a Fidelity Bloom account with SPAXX as my core position.

If I'm not mistaken, unlike SPAXX, Schwab's SWVXX and Vanguard VMFXX both have ex-div, record date, and pay date each month listed under "fund distribution". But strangely enough, I bought some SWVXX on 7/11, well past the listed record date of 6/16, yet I still get a pro-rated dividend yesterday 7/17 (the listed pay date). So if that's the case, why did they even list the record date?

Any suggested money market for ETRADE/MS. or JP Morgan Chase ?

Schwab/TD Ameritrade please!

Hi Jennifer, I was wondering if you could do a video on investing in taxable brokerage vs IRA brokerage account. The pros and cons. thank you!

Vanguard too, please!

Long Explanation of Fidelity Cash Management. Folks, I've spent most of today trying to figure out how to set up Fidelity accounts to maximize interest earned from treasury money market accounts in a high tax state, while also utilizing all of the banking features that fidelity makes available (debit card, checks, online bill pay, ach transfers, direct deposit). I'm still in the process of funding my new accounts, so I have not yet implemented this strategy, but I think it will work. First of all, there are two different Fidelity accounts that need to be opened: (1) a Fidelity cash management account, and (2) a Fidelity brokerage account. Cash Management Account. You cannot designate an alternative funding account for Cash Management - the only funding option is a bank account which pays a 2.6% interest rate and the funds are FDIC insured. The cash management account really works just like a good bank account with a debit card, online bill pay, check writing, ach transfers, direct deposit, etd. I believe you could directly purchase Fidelity money market shares in the cash management account, but it is not made for investments. It's really just a bank account. Brokerage Account. The brokerage account is made for investments, but they also have some cash management features like check writing. In a taxable brokerage account you can designate SPAXX or FZFXX (two very similar funds) as alternatives to the FDIC bank funding account. However, you cannot designate FDLXX (which is the treasury only money market account) as an alternative funding account. As I discuss in a minute, I suspect that they precluded FDLXX from being an alternative funding account because they are holding mostly actual treasuries in that account rather than swaps and they are worried about too many people making too many transactions in the account and causing them management difficulties. Swaps are generally shorter term and easier for them to convert to cash. But there are real advantages to those of us in a high tax state to using FDLXX over the settlement fund options. FDLXX: The 7 day yield is currently 4.82%, which is actually higher than the settlement funds (about 4.75%), but most importantly the settlement funds are holding about 85% of their assets in swaps or agency bills which are not exempt from state taxes, while FDLXX is holding 79.71% in actual treasuries which are exempt from state taxes. Also, in states like California and New York, I believe you will get no tax state tax exemption if the fund has less than 50% treasuries, so if the holdings remain for the full year as they are currently, no interest earned on the settlement funds will be exempt from state taxes in a 50% state. While nearly 80% of the interest earned in FDLXX would be exempt from state taxes. So FDLXX is a lot better in any taxable state (higher yield currently and much higher state deductibility). But it's trickier to utilize because it cannot be made a default funding source. The Cash Manager. Don't confuse the cash manager with a cash management account. The cash manager is a feature in a cash management account that can enable you to utilize FDLXX as your primary funding source, although it requires some setup and monitoring. It has three important features: (1) it will give you notice when your cash management funding account is below the amount you set, (2) it will give you notice when your cash management funding account is above the amount you set, and (3) it will allow you to use FDLXX in your brokerage account as a free overdraft source for your cash management account. So let's say you set the cash manager to notify you whenever you have more than $5 in your cash management account. When you get the notice (from direct deposits, check deposits from your cellphone, ACH transfers, whatever) that there is more than $5 in the cash management account, you'll go in and transfer all of the money from the cash management account to FDLXX. When you spend money, you have this automatic self overdraft protection enabled to charge FDLXX for whenever you spend . It will pull whatever you spend from FDLXX to prevent an overdraft. So you basically keep nothing in the cash management account, use the self overdraft protection to cover spending, and the only part that's not automatic is that you have to physically move incoming money to FDLXX. So it sounds pretty good to me - if it works as advertised. There may be a way to push money directly into FDLXX in your brokerage account, but it's not apparent. If not, you'll have to transfer manually when you get notice that incoming funds are in the cash management account. So that's the scoop. If you're in a low tax state and want to use one of the available money market funds as the default funding source for your brokerage account, your transfers into the brokerage account would not have to be transferred manually. But transfers into your cash management account still would have to be manually transferred since they cannot be default funding sources. If anyone has any better solutions, please chime in. I'm new to using Fidelity for money management, but it seems like a really good solution in relation to very low yielding and fully-state-taxable bank accounts. And Fidelity allows living trust accounts and other account types that are very difficult to set up at most of the higher-paying online banks.

Yes please.. more info on Munis

There is another Fidelity MMkt, FRSXX, which invests almost exclusively in shorter term Treasury securities and is currently yielding 4.85%. I use this in addition to FDRXX, which has more investments in repurchase agreements, as a balance.

I have FZDXX 4.94% in my traditional IRA and SPRXX 4.82% in a joint account with my wife.

Do Schwab next!

Great video (again)! Please consider doing a similar video for Schwab.

Do you have to have a minimum? It doesn’t allow me to chance my core position

What is a good portfolio for 5o yo planning retire 67 who likes growth. How many percentage you recommend international stocks. How about bonds. What type bonds. Is domestic large cap and bonds enough? Do you need international stocks?

I have Fidelity FZDXX Premium Money Market and the rate has been holding at 4.94 for several weeks.

Thanks Jennifer. Schwab next please!

Yes, Schwab please.TY

Can the APR be in negative for SPAXX or the other ones?

Yes. Please do a video on TDAmerittade Schwab and Vanguard.

Someone please tell me how to get to the screen on Fidelity that shows FCASH, SPAXX, and FZFXX rates (i.e. 2.57%, 4.74% and 4.74%)

thanks for all the great info. what are your thoughts on FZDXX?

GREAT JOB

I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT FIDELITY MONEY MARKET FUNDS

With SPAXX, could you hypothetically leave trad IRA money in it instead of opening a cd? Just discovered your channel. It is excellent

I have a Fidelity account that I do my bill paying out of, it's kind of a bucket thing I do to manage by spending transferring a fixed amount out of my main brokerage account on a monthly basis (I'm retired). I tried changing the core account for this account but the only option it shows is one of those crappy FDIC option. What gives?

Could you do a video on Dollar Cost Averaging method? What is better monthly, bi weekly or else? Set it for beginning of the month, mid month or end of month? Which day of the week is better to buy? Thank you

I ❤ Fidelity

Hi Jennifer. Vanguard for me, and nice to be getting 5% with safe money/dry powder for the time being.

Vanguard please!!!!😃

I would like similar info for Schwab money market accounts.