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Every other asset on the balance sheet is judged on both. Cash should be no different.
Beyond Yield introduces a practical framework for evaluating institutional cash across security, liquidity, yield and diversification – and for comparing investments on the risk-adjusted basis they deserve.
Co-written by Kevin Cook, Co-founder & CEO, and James Skillen, CTO, TreasurySpring.
The yield is visible. The risk often isn't.
Two cash investments can offer the same yield while carrying materially different risks.
Yet many treasury decisions still come down to a familiar question: what is the highest yield available within policy?
That tells you what you’re being paid. It doesn’t tell you what you’re being paid for.
This guide provides a practical way to look at both sides of the equation.
What you’ll learn
- Same yield, different risk: why apparently similar cash investments can represent very different decisions.
- The policy trap: how “highest yield within policy” can become the default – and what that framework can miss.
- Risk-Adjusted Value: a practical approach using risk-weighted assets and the Basel Standardised Approach as a proxy for credit risk.
- Risk and return on one chart: an efficient-frontier view of deposits, MMFs and Fixed-Term Funds.
- The framework in practice: how sophisticated cash investors and treasury teams approach risk-adjusted decision-making.
Built from institutional markets experience
TreasurySpring is the global cash investment platform. Our team has spent decades evaluating risk across institutional markets and building the infrastructure that gives treasury teams access to a broader universe of cash investments.
Today, more than 1000 institutions invest through TreasurySpring across 120+ counterparties, with $430B+ placed and zero client losses.
Beyond Yield turns that experience into a framework treasury teams can use to make more informed, defensible cash investment decisions.
