A visible one, much in demand for fund-raisers, and as guest at dinner parties.
Robertson says there is now a demand for funds that identify with an individual cause.
From a broader product perspective, we are seeing continued demand for funds, as well as hedge funds.
If depositors all suddenly decide to withdraw their money at once, as their contract with the bank entitles them to, the bank cannot meet the demand for funds.
At the same time, Mr. Const?io said that demand for funds from the central bank had been declining since June and was expected to fall further.
Real estate funds rose 11.7percentt, benefiting from the Federal Reserve's cautious stance on interest rates and from demand for funds that pay stable dividends.
"Market forces, not the Federal Reserve, are driving up interest rates to close the gap between supply and demand for funds," Mr. Greenspan told the Senate Banking Committee last month.
The BoE's auction of £40bn of three-month money was oversubscribed by 1.3 times, such was the demand for funds.
This is a situation of weak demand for funds, not strong demand; it's a situation in which you would expect bond yields to be lower than normal, not higher — and you'd be right.
The bank announced Thursday that it would offer a loan program totaling ¥1 trillion, or about $11.7 billion, to financial institutions in the disaster area, in an effort to help them meet future demand for funding needed for reconstruction.
