re: Emergency Fund

My concern with this line of thinking is not whether or not you will have access to the funds, it is what the fund balance will be.

An emergency fund is a pot of money that can be tapped in an emergency. It doesn't do a tremendous amount of good - the way I look at it - to have it subject to the risk of the market.

So, if you were going to invest your emergency fund, I would reccomend a very safe plain vanilla investment - something not likely to have large swings in value. Of course, something like that won't have much of a payout. Plus, you would want to find an account/investment with little or no fees and charges.