在2005年英国则有突出表现，平均回报率为16.15%，几乎是美国基金收益的两倍。

In 2005 Britain had the edge in performance, returning an average of 16.15%, almost twice the return of American funds.

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然而，在2007年(有完整数据的最近一年)已支付的美国基金中，只有不到1%的资金用于营利性企业。

However, less than 1% of the capital U. s. foundations disbursed in 2007 (the last year of complete data) supported for-profit ventures.

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由于这将是第一只完全由一种实体商品支持的美国基金，监管机构还在试图理解这种概念背后的机理。

Since it was to be the first U. S. fund entirely backed by a physical commodity, regulators also sought to understand how the concept would work.

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Finally, I just want to say that I've been talking mainly about the U.S., but mutual funds have been growing in importance around the world.

总之,我想要说的是,虽然我们谈的主要是美国,但在全世界,共同基金的重要性在日益增强

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The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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I asked you in the final question to just get on a couple of websites, The Federal Reserve and the ICI, which is a mutual industry website, and write a little bit, a couple paragraphs about what this industry is really achieving or how it's trending.

我最后再要求你们,去浏览下一些网站，像联邦储备和美国投资公司协会网站，都是共同基金产业的网站，然后稍微写几段，关于这个产业的成就,或者他们的发展趋势。

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