Activists are also encouraging IMF and World Bank leaders not to link new funds to austerity measures normally prescribed for borrowers, like cuts in public spending and an increase in interest rates.
With bond funds, the link was so weak that the relatively high expenses charged by actively managed funds overwhelmed the value of their modest outperformance.
Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, recently suggested that offshore centres are potentially the weakest link in the struggle to cut off terrorist funds.