Even with my admitted rudimentary knowledge of high finance, seems you're making the case for new investment counselors to ICANN. No, I won't give it for free, not this time! - Carlton ============================== Carlton A Samuels Mobile: 876-818-1799 *Strategy, Planning, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 7:36 PM, John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
This thing has got my goat.
Actually, it sounds like ICANN has learned their lesson. A few years back, ICANN made an incredibly irresponsible decision to place $25 million of reserve funds in a broker managed stock market account, which became $20 million when the market burped. Oops. At the time ICANN's CFO refused to take any responsibility or to admit that they'd screwed up, or to explain why they'd needed $25 million of registrants' money for the reserve if, as he now claimed, $20M was enough.
I hope we all agree that ICANN's primary reponsibility toward its reserves is to be sure that the money is there when it's needed. That means something with no credit risk, like US government treasury bills, which are currently yielding 0.16% for six month bills and 0.18% for twelve months. When you subtract off even the most modest broker fees, that rounds to zero, so I can't blame them for just putting it in a zero interest account on which they can draw as needed.
What were you expecting them to do? Do you think it is possible to find suitable low-risk investments that pay significantly more?
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