Bank of America Discloses $600 Million Columbia Money Funds Bailout.
Bank of America will "spend $600 million supporting in-house money-market funds that are exposed to troubled financing entities called structured investment vehicles reports
The Wall Street Journal. BoA'
s
Columbia Funds are the
7th largest manager of money market mutual funds with over $150 billion in assets. Columbia joins a number of other fund complexes that have taken action
purchasing or protecting structured investment vehicle-related commercial paper and medium-term notes, extendible ABCP and other esoteric mortgage-related securities whose value has come into question during the market'
s recent flight-
from-
complexity. See
Bloomberg's "Bank of America, Legg Mason Prop Up Their Money Funds" for more.