Just over a year ago, Bob Hullinghorst, treasurer of Boulder county, Colorado, put a chunk of the local government's cash into an American money market fund. A financial industry veteran himself, Mr Hullinghorst assumed that was a safe place: the fund had a top-notch credit rating and, unlike the obscure structured derivative products that had been troubling Wall Street since the previous August, it was an entirely mainstream type of investment.
就在一年多以前,美國科羅拉多州博爾德縣財務主管鮑勃•赫林豪斯特(Bob Hullinghorst)將一大筆當地政府資金,投入了一隻美國貨幣市場基金。作爲一位金融界老手,赫林豪斯特認定那是一個安全的地方:該基金擁有最高的信用評級,與自去年8月以來一直困擾華爾街不透明的結構化衍生產品不同,該基金完全屬於一個主流投資品種。
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