Funds held by a trust institution may be invested collectively:

(1) In common trust funds maintained by the trust institution or its affiliate exclusively for the collective investment and reinvestment of monies contributed thereto by the trust institution or its affiliate in their capacities as executor, administrator, committee, guardian, or trustee under a will or deed;

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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 34-21-220

  • affiliate: means any bank, state or national, or trust company which is (i) duly authorized to act as a fiduciary, wherever located, (ii) under the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States, the Federal Reserve System, or a state banking regulatory board or commission, and (iii) a member of the same affiliated group, as defined in Section 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, as a particular trust institution. See South Carolina Code 34-21-210
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • 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
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

(2) In a fund consisting solely of assets of retirement, pension, profit sharing, stock bonus, or other trusts which are exempt from Federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code;

(3) Under a managing agency agreement expressly providing that such moneys are received by the trust institution in trust;

(4) Moneys held by the trust institution in its capacity as managing agent shall not be invested in collective investment funds established under items (1) or (2) of this section. Property held by the trust institution in its capacity as trustee of retirement, pension, profit sharing, stock bonus or other trusts which are exempt from Federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code may be invested in collective investment funds established under the provisions of items (1) or (2) of this section, subject to the provisions herein contained pertaining to such funds. Assets of retirement, pension, profit sharing, stock bonus or other trusts which are exempt from Federal income taxation under the Internal Revenue Code and held by the trust institution in whatever capacity, may be invested in collective investment funds established under the provisions of item (2) of this section.