Trust may refer to: Trust (sociology), the willing acceptance of one person's power to affect another Property law Ownership and management of property by one on behalf of another: Trust (Law) USA Trust (Law) non-USA Escrow, where a thing is held in trust until conditions are fullfilled Finance Trust company, a financial institution offering banking, investment and estate administration services

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Living trust, Living trust - The Parties To The Trust, Living trust - Establishing a Living Trust

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A unit trust is a trust where the beneficiaries (called unitholders) each possess a certain share (called a unitholding) and can direct the trustee to pay money to them out of the trust property according to the number of unitholdings they possess. Unit trusts are primarily used for investment purposes. A protective trust is a type of trust that was devised for use in estate planning. Often a person, A, wishes to leave property to another person B. A however fears that the property migh ...

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Trust law USA, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees, Trust law USA - The law of trusts, Trust law USA - Creation of a trust, Trust law USA - The trust document, Trust law USA - Inadvertent termination of trust: the merger of legal and equitable title, Trust law USA - Personal versus institutional trusts, Trust law USA - Terminology with multiple meanings, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees: individuals versus collective entities, Trust law USA - Trust property, Trust law USA - Purposes of trusts, Trust law USA - Express and implied trusts, Trust law USA - Constructive trust: an equitable remedy, Trust law USA - Simple or bare trusts versus special trusts, Trust law USA - Private trusts versus public or charitable trusts, Trust law USA - Fixed discretionary and hybrid trusts, Trust law USA - Unit trusts and protective trusts, Trust law USA - Some Federal income tax implications

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The Bankers Trust is a historic US banking organisation that was merged with Deutsche Bank in 1998, but continues to operate under that name. It was originally set up when banks could not perform trust company services. A consortium of banks all invested in a new trust company, which was called Bankers Trust, so that they could refer clients to that company knowing that Bankers Trust would not try and poach their customer. Under the management of Charlie Sanford, Bankers Trust became a leader in the nascent derivatives b ...

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An income trust is an investment trust that holds income-producing assets. The term also designates a legal entity, capital structure and ownership vehicle for certain assets or businesses. Its shares or "trust units" are traded on securities exchanges just like stocks. The income is passed on to the investors, called "unitholders", through monthly or quarterly distributions. Distributions are typically higher than stock dividends, offering yields ...

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• Income trust - Australia
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Adamastor Trust is the name under which the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust trades and prefers to be known. The Trust was registered (as the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust ) in August 1993. Its members are the four major tertiary educational institutions located within 80 km of each other in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The primary purpose of the Trust is to facilitate co-operation between the participating institutions. The Board of Trustees consists of one Vice-Rector or Deputy Vice-Chancellor nominated by each institution. The Trust receives and admini ...

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• Adamastor Trust - Members

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A charitable trust (or charity) is a trust organized to serve private or public charitable purposes. Charitable trust - Legal distinctions. A legal definition of a charitable purpose includes the relief of poverty, the advancement of education, the advancement of religion, or other purposes considered beneficial to the community. Because of the benefits provided by charitable trusts, they are subject to certain benefits under the law. For example, transfers of property to a charitable trust ar ...

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In cryptography, a web of trust is a concept used in PGP, GnuPG, and other OpenPGP-compatible systems to establish the authenticity of the binding between a public key and a user. It is, in some respects, an alternative to centralized public key infrastructure (PKI) reliance exclusively on a certificate authority (or a hierarchy of such). As with computer networks, there are many independent webs of trust, and any user (through their identity certificate) can be a part of – and a link between – multiple webs. Web of ...

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• Web of trust - Contrast with typical PKI
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The "Brains Trust" (often Brain Trust) was the name given to a group of diverse academics who served as advisers to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the early period of his tenure. The group never met together but acted as informal advisors; having an academic team was first suggested in March 1932 by Roosevelt's legal counsel Samuel Rosenman. In 1918 President Woodrow Wilson had assembled The Inquiry, a group of academic advisors he brought to the Versailles Conference. The Brain Trust in 1932 to 1933 included Raymo ...

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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) was founded by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of ISKCON, in March 1972 in India and in May in USA with the mission to publish all his books in all languages of the world, and, if it is not contrary with this primary goal, also translations of other major Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures. BBT was founded as a non-profit subject independent of ISKCON, in order to safeguard production and distribution of books - and development of the most important Gaudiya Vaishnava holy places like Vrindavan and May ...

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The Ansar Burney Trust is a human rights organization in Pakistan. Ansar Burney Trust - Background. Established in 1980 by Ansar Burney, advocate in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, the Ansar Burney Trust was the first organization to introduce true human rights in Pakistan. With a mission to work as a non-political, non-governmental and non-profitable organization, the Trust started working against all forms of injustices, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, child abuse, cruelty to women and o ...

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• Ansar Burney Trust - Background
• Ansar Burney Trust - Persons Released
• Ansar Burney Trust - Human Smuggling and Trafficking
• Ansar Burney Trust - More
• Ansar Burney Trust - Websites

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The Wellcome Trust is a United Kingdom-based charity established in 1936 to disburse the fortune of the pharmaceutical magnate Sir Henry Wellcome and the income of Burroughs Wellcome & Co. It is commonly referred to as the world's richest medical charity, with funds of £9,000 million as of 2003. The mission of the Trust is "to foster and promote research with the aim of improving human and animal health." As well as funding biomedical resea ...

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• Wellcome Trust - Activities
• Wellcome Trust - Libraries and public facilities

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Daily Planet is a property trust which briefly made headlines on its initial public offering in 2003. Because the property owned is used as a brothel in Melbourne, Australia, the listing of shares of stock on the Australian Stock Exchange caused consternation and titillation, and publicity for the company. Chief Executive Andrew Harris noted that shareholders are "not actually investing in a bordello.. ...

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The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust is a wildfowl and wetland conservation charity in the United Kingdom and the largest international wetland conservation charity. Its patron is Queen Elizabeth II. It was founded in 1946 by the ornithologist and artist Sir Peter Scott, initially as the Severn Wildfowl Trust. It has over 100,000 members and nine reserves with visitor centres, together covering over 20 km² which support over 150,000 birds and receive over one million visitors per year. The sites include seven SSSIs (site of Special ...

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• Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust - External link

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There are three primary types of income trusts: Income trust - Real estate investment trusts. Real estate investment trusts (REITs) invest in real estate: income-producing properties and/or mortgage-backed securities. The REIT structure was designed to provide a similar structure for investment in real estate as mutual funds provide for investment in stocks. ...

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Income trust, Income trust - Tax advantages, Income trust - Types of income trusts, Income trust - Real estate investment trusts, Income trust - Royalty/energy trusts, Income trust - Business trusts, Income trust - Investor risks, Income trust - Income trust booms, Income trust - Australia, Income trust - United States, Income trust - Canada

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The tax advantages offered to trusts in certain jurisdictions have fueled income trust booms and bubbles in the recent economic history of several countries. In each case, the growth was led by the multiplication of business income trusts. (Main source: “What we can learn from other markets,” Globe and Mail, October 13, 2005.) Income trust - Australia. See also: Econo ...

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Income trust, Income trust - Tax advantages, Income trust - Types of income trusts, Income trust - Real estate investment trusts, Income trust - Royalty/energy trusts, Income trust - Business trusts, Income trust - Investor risks, Income trust - Income trust booms, Income trust - Australia, Income trust - United States, Income trust - Canada

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In order to expedite the process of transferring assets to intended benficiaries, some people choose to arrange their property so that it can bypass the probate process upon their deaths. For example, placing property into a trust before death (as opposed to a testamentary trust) will often allow the accomplishment of the objectives of property distribution without coming under the jurisdiction of a court and the possible redistribution after a lengthy contested probate process and trial. Similarly, jointly held property (in common law syste ...

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Trusts and estates, Trusts and estates - What is an estate?, Trusts and estates - Uses of trusts, Trusts and estates - Use of estates and trusts

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Another major factor in trusts and estates law may be to minimize one's tax exposure. After an applicable exempt amount, the United States federal estate tax very quickly approaches 50% of one's taxable estate. The proper use of trusts may reduce one's tax burden. The applicable exempt amount is currently one and a half million dollars in 2005, and is scheduled to increase to two million and then to three and a half million until the estate tax is temporarily repealed for one year in 2010. The year after, the estate tax is scheduled to be ...

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Trusts and estates, Trusts and estates - What is an estate?, Trusts and estates - Uses of trusts, Trusts and estates - Use of estates and trusts

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Typically a trust is created by (1) written instrument (the trust document) signed by both the settlor (who may be the only beneficiary) and the trustee or (2) the last will and testament of the settlor. While there are other ways to create a trust, they are atypical and of little practical interest to trust practitioners: true desert islands cases for the most part. While practitioners (bank trustees and fellow traveler trust and estate attorneys) persist in titling trusts as "Tr. u/a" (trusts under agreement a/k/a inter vivos trusts ...

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Trust law USA, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees, Trust law USA - The law of trusts, Trust law USA - Creation of a trust, Trust law USA - The trust document, Trust law USA - Inadvertent termination of trust: the merger of legal and equitable title, Trust law USA - Personal versus institutional trusts, Trust law USA - Terminology with multiple meanings, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees: individuals versus collective entities, Trust law USA - Trust property, Trust law USA - Purposes of trusts, Trust law USA - Express and implied trusts, Trust law USA - Constructive trust: an equitable remedy, Trust law USA - Simple or bare trusts versus special trusts, Trust law USA - Private trusts versus public or charitable trusts, Trust law USA - Fixed discretionary and hybrid trusts, Trust law USA - Unit trusts and protective trusts, Trust law USA - Some Federal income tax implications

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Trusts can be classified in a number of ways. One of these ways is by how the trust was created. Most commonly, a classification of trusts as express trusts versus implied trusts (resulting trust) is used. Note however that this terminology is not accepted by all authors. An express trust is created where one person (the settlor) conveys property to another (the trustee) on the condition that the property will be used for the benefit of a third party or parties (the beneficiaries). The intention of the part ...

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Trust law USA, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees, Trust law USA - The law of trusts, Trust law USA - Creation of a trust, Trust law USA - The trust document, Trust law USA - Inadvertent termination of trust: the merger of legal and equitable title, Trust law USA - Personal versus institutional trusts, Trust law USA - Terminology with multiple meanings, Trust law USA - Kinds of trustees: individuals versus collective entities, Trust law USA - Trust property, Trust law USA - Purposes of trusts, Trust law USA - Express and implied trusts, Trust law USA - Constructive trust: an equitable remedy, Trust law USA - Simple or bare trusts versus special trusts, Trust law USA - Private trusts versus public or charitable trusts, Trust law USA - Fixed discretionary and hybrid trusts, Trust law USA - Unit trusts and protective trusts, Trust law USA - Some Federal income tax implications

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