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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by veyron on Friday August 05, 2011 @09:55PM (#2852629)
Some funds strictly cannot hold anything lower than AAA, but most have "investment grade" requirement which is BBB (Baa in moody's ratings)

That type of downgrade is very unlikely

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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by _delirium on Friday August 05, 2011 @09:59PM (#2852646)
The only ones I can find that are strictly AAA are either all-corporate to begin with, or explicitly say that they invest in "AAA-rated U.S. Treasury and agency securities" or similar language. Which is awkward if there is no such thing, but it's not clear it'd require them to sell off, since there's nothing eligible to move to.
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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by veyron on Friday August 05, 2011 @10:05PM (#2852665)
Checked on BB. It looks like $80B of invested assets across bond funds with any reported information would be affected (which is paltry, considering the full run of US treasuries far exceeds $10T)
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