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Raids on Montana investment pool reach $247M. Run on investment fund leaves Fla. cities cash-poor

Budget director calls reaction to subprime exposure ‘fear factor’

Montana local governments and school districts this week have pulled out $247 million of their funds from the state’s Short Term Investment Pool over concerns about its small exposure to some risky subprime loans.

They have withdrawn 26 percent of the $896 million they had invested in the pool. The Short Term Investment Pool, or STIP, is like a money market fund in which local governments, school districts and state agencies put their extra cash until they need it.

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON
Gazette State Bureau

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/11/30/news/state/22-investment.txt

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Run on investment fund leaves Fla. cities cash-poor

School districts, counties, and cities in Florida are scrambling to raise cash after being denied access to their deposits in a $15 billion state-run investment fund.
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Florida’s State Board of Administration, manager of the Local Government Investment Pool, halted withdrawals Thursday after $12 billion was pulled out this month from participants. Governments from Orange County to Pompano Beach asked for their money back following disclosures that the fund held $1.5 billion of downgraded and defaulted debt.

Full Story: http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2007/12/01/run_on_investment_fund_leaves_fla_cities_cash_poor/

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