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Because the risks are less in money market. Because, there is less possibility of default of the credit of less than one year maturity. Likewise, the risk of interest rate is also low in the money market. On the other hand, the credit of the capital market is of long term nature. Due to this risks are more and are of varied nature in capital market.

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