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In fact, the Missouri Investment Trust, the first public fund in the country to divest the stocks of companies doing business with Iran, Syria, Sudan and North Korea, has actually performed better since it was taken terror-free.
While the 15% rate applies to most corporate payouts, that's not the case for most real estate investment trust dividends or for bond fund dividends, which are really interest and are taxed at ordinary income rates of up to 35%.
In my view, it is important that the trust fund's investment decisions be made without regard to political considerations.
During the 1920s, the financial industry underwent a great expansion, bringing into the business many inexperienced people and new investment vehicles -- most notably the investment trust, the forerunner of the modern mutual fund.
The Missouri Investment Trust actually performed better as a terror-free fund than it would have by partnering with the terrorists' favorite companies.
But a close-ended fund sometimes called an investment trust has a fixed number of shares, just as any other company does, and these are traded on a stock exchange, where their price reflects supply and demand.
It is especially useful in private equity because a partner's original investment in a fund is often made through an offshore trust.
Indeed, donor-advised funds, both those run by community foundations like the Trust and those affiliated with investment firms, such as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, and the Schwab Charitable Fund, are a fine way for folks who aren't rich enough to set up their own private foundations to funnel money over time to their favorite charities.
The trust fund is made whole through U.S. treasuries, which are the safest investment in the world, as you know.
But according to the Investment Management Association, the British fund-management industry's trade body, an equity unit trust has to have 80% in equities.
The new investment fund is independent of the government and 60% of its shares are owned by the Big Society Trust, a private limited company comprised of executives from social, business and government roles.
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