Much has changed over the past 12-months for the U.S. economy, business outlook, and financial markets. In this session we focus on corporate cash management in the context of using fixed income markets as a tool to invest organizational cash to not only preserve value and maintain liquidity, but to maximize yield (interest income earned), through rate cycles. Maximizing interest earnings on excess cash balances will remain important going forward, while remaining steadfast to achieving safety and liquidity goals. Though it may be beneficial to tweak investment strategies given the decline in front- end rates that has been fueled by an aggressive start to this easing cycle, shifting U.S. policy, rate volatility, and the unwinding of the inversion of the yield curve.
It is common for organizations to make incremental adjustments to investment strategies as the environment changes. Though these tweaks are not dramatic and often include either using a different asset class or shifting investment maturities. Please join us as we discuss how corporate organizations and similar investors (like 2a7 MMFs) have made such adjustments, discussing not only the benefits, but the internal procedures and controls.
1. Understand the drivers and consequences of changes in the U.S. economy and financial markets over the past 12-months as well as gain insight into the outlook for the next 12- months
2. Gain perspective on fixed income tools that peers are using to manage cash and tools for achieving corporate cash investing goals