It took one crisis to bring the stabilisation fund into being.
Under threat from the politicians, the Corporation converted the fund into a charity in 1995.
That turns a political slush fund into something even worse: A conduit for outright bribery.
As presently constituted, the fund into which Social Security payments go will run out of money in 2033.
At the height of the crisis in the spring, Mr. Papandreou brought the International Monetary Fund into negotiations.
In short, the president missed a big chance to put this energy trust fund into action in 2010.
IM UK has proposed that midwives self-insure from a joint fund into which they would pay.
It would abolish Sberbank's guarantee and create a single fund into which all banks would put 0.15% of their deposits.
Along with other politicians, they succeeded in folding a "victims' compensation fund" into legislation that bailed out airlines.
"But I am not sure that you can turn the International Monetary Fund into a super regulator".
In June, Bull Path Capital Management converted a long-short equity hedge fund into a mutual fund.Hedge-fund managers have offered mutual funds before.
