Donor countries and agencies met in Brussels to assess Iraq's economic needs: they want Iraq's American administrator to accept an independent trust fund to channel aid.

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In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to create an Energy Security Trust Fund, which would free American families and business from painful spikes in gas prices.

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One way of looking at these is as if they are a unit trust (in English) or a mutual fund (in American).

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