About Us

The Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund (IMET) is a local government investment pool. IMET offers two investment funds for finance officers, treasurers, and other official custodians of municipal funds, and other public agency monies in the State of Illinois. These funds are the IMET Core Fund and the IMET Convenience Fund. IMET also offers a bond and lease DashBoard, arbitrage rebate calculation services for participants whose bond proceeds are subject to federal arbitrage restrictions and cash flow projection modeling.

Welcome

Created in 1996, under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act and the Illinois Municipal Code, IMET was formed to provide Illinois government agencies with safe, liquid, attractive alternatives for investing. IMET offers participants two separate vehicles to meet their investment needs.

The IMET Core Fund is designed for public funds that may be invested for longer than one year. The Core Fund carries the highest rating available (AAAf/bf) from Moody's for such funds.

The IMET Convenience Fund (CVF) is designed to accommodate funds requiring high liquidity, including short term cash management programs and temporary investment of bond proceeds. It is comprised of collateralized and FHLB LoC backed bank deposits, FDIC insured certificates of deposit and US government securities.

IMET Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports

View our most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports below or view a full list here.

Recent News

IMET APRIL 2024 Monthly Newsletter
April 17, 2024

In this month's newsletter, read how the IMET Core Fund is favorably positioned in the current environment, review our economic update, and see the March 2024 fund performance.

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IMET March 2024 Monthly Newsletter
March 11, 2024

In this month's newsletter, see the info for IMET's upcoming Annual Participant meeting happening March 19th, view IMETs upcoming schedule of conferences and events, read our economic update, and view the February 2024 fund performance.

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IMET FEBRUARY 2024 Monthly Newsletter
February 13, 2024

In this month's newsletter, see the info for IMET's upcoming Annual Participant meeting happening March 19th, review the IMET Economic Update Webinar from February 13th, read about the completion of IMETs audit, view IMETs upcoming schedule of conferences and events, read our economic update, and view the January 2024 fund performance.

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IMET JANUARY 2024 Monthly Newsletter
January 15, 2024

In this month's newsletter, view the IMET schedule for the beginning of 2024, see the info for IMET's upcoming Annual Participant meeting happening March 19th, look at the upcoming IMET Economic Update webinar registration with Meeder Public Funds on February 13th, read our economic update, and view the December 2023 fund performance.

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