In addition to the investments permitted under § 34-21-220, funds or other property received or held by a trust institution as fiduciary may be invested collectively as follows:

(1) In a single real estate loan or a direct obligation of the United States, or an obligation fully guaranteed by the United States, if the trust institution owns no participation in the loan or obligation and has no interest therein except in its capacity as fiduciary.

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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-21-430

  • bank: as used in this title must be construed to include all institutions doing any kind of banking business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, excluding a savings bank, and "building and loan association" as used in this title must be construed to include a mutual or stock savings association, savings and loan association, or savings bank and all other institutions doing any kind of building and loan business whose deposits are eligible for insurance by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. See South Carolina Code 34-1-10
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Trust institution: means any state bank, any national bank, any building and loan association, savings association, savings and loan association, savings bank, or any trust company authorized to conduct a trust business in this State, or any trust company, authorized to act in a fiduciary capacity in this State, and under the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, or the Federal Reserve System, or the State Board of Bank Control of South Carolina;

    (2) The term "fiduciary" means a trust institution undertaking to act alone or jointly with others primarily for the benefit of another in all matters connected with its undertaking and includes trustee, executor, administrator, guardian of estates, committee of estates of persons non compos mentis, and managing agent;

    (3) The term "common trust fund" means a fund maintained by a trust institution, exclusively for the collective investment and reinvestment of moneys contributed thereto by the institution in its capacity as a fiduciary or cofiduciary and established, maintained and administered pursuant to the requirements of this article;

    (4) The term "estate" or "estates" means any trust, estate or fund administered by a trust institution in a fiduciary capacity;

    (5) The term "participation" means the interest of a participating estate in the common trust fund;

    (6) The term "security" or "securities" means all types of property in which the trust institution is authorized to invest the assets of the common trust fund; and

    (7) The term "managing agency" means the fiduciary relationship assumed by a bank upon the creation of an account so entitled which confers investment discretion on the bank and imposes upon it the fiduciary responsibilities imposed upon trustees under will or deed. See South Carolina Code 34-21-210

(2) In any investments specifically authorized by court order or authorized by the instrument creating the fiduciary relationship.

(3) In such other manner as shall be approved in writing by the Comptroller of the Currency in the case of national banks and by the State Board of Bank Control in the case of State banks.