The result: GE looks less like a hedge fund masquerading as an industrial company than it used to.

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Borrowing by the company itself and being able to fund investments at less than market cost.

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Since 1983, when the SEC revised its rules governing money market funds, there has been only one instance of a money market fund paying investors less than the principal they invested, according to the Investment Company Institute, a trade association for U.S. investment companies.

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