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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 555.103

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Collective investment fund: means a fund maintained by a financial institution or by 1 or more affiliated financial institutions that consists solely of assets of retirement, pension, profit sharing, stock bonus, or other trusts that are exempt from federal income tax. See Michigan Laws 555.101
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: means a financial institution or other person acting in the capacity of guardian, conservator, personal representative, or trustee, either solely or together with others, or custodian under a uniform gift or transfer to minors act of any state. See Michigan Laws 555.101
  • Financial institution: means any of the following:
    (i) A state bank, national bank, state or federally chartered savings and loan association or savings bank that is authorized to act in a fiduciary capacity in this state. See Michigan Laws 555.101
     A financial institution in its capacity as a fiduciary or cofiduciary may invest funds that it lawfully holds for investment in that capacity in interests or participations in 1 or more common trust funds, if the investment is not prohibited by the instrument, judgment, decree, or order creating the fiduciary relationship and if, in the case of a financial institution in its capacity as a cofiduciary, the financial institution complies with any consent requirements imposed by the estates and protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, MCL 700.1101 to 700.8102. A financial institution may invest assets of retirement, pension, profit sharing, stock bonus, or other employee benefit trusts exempt from federal income tax that the financial institution holds in any capacity, including agent, in a collective investment fund.