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Blind Trust

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Blind Trust
A trust in which the executors have full discretion over the assets, and the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust.

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Blind trusts are generally used when a trustor wishes to keep the beneficiary unaware of the specific assets in the trust, such as to avoid conflict of interest between the beneficiary and the investments.


Blind trust
A trust in which a fiduciary third party has total discretion to make investments on behalf of a beneficiary while the beneficiary is uninformed about the holdings of the trust.

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