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Money market funds and hedge funds act as examples of shadow banking institutions.

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Is it true that money market funds and hedge funds act as examples of shadow banking institutions?

Yes. Financial textbooks and regulatory literature identify money market mutual funds and related financial intermediaries as prime examples of shadow banking institutions.

Verdict: SUPPORTED · 4 sources for, 0 against · Last checked

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Wikipedia: Money market fund
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Wikipedia: Money market fund. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_market_fund

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McGraw-Hill Education: Money, banking, and financial markets
2015
Explicitly names money-market mutual funds as examples of shadow banks.
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author, C. S. G. (. G. (2015). McGraw-Hill Education: Money, banking, and financial markets. McGraw-Hill Education. https://archive.org/details/moneybankingfina0004cecc

OpenAIRE: Alternatives within corporate ‘ownership’
2015
Discusses hedge funds as institutional investors in corporate governance without directly defining them as shadow banks.
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OpenAIRE: Alternatives within corporate ‘ownership’. (2015). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.378140

OpenAIRE: Regulatory measures to address the risk from the shadow banking system in the E.U. and the U.S.A.
2022
Defines shadow banking entities and credit intermediation outside regular banking.
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OpenAIRE: Regulatory measures to address the risk from the shadow banking system in the E.U. and the U.S.A.. (2022). OpenAIRE. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57859-4_14

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