Before the rise of the Registered Investment Adviser (ca. 1970), before the ascendency of the no-load mutual fund (ca. 1980) … heck, even well before the pre-eminence of the portfolio manager, there was … the trust document.
Coming to full prominence in the 19th century, the trust document was a well-crafted series of instructions enabling the trustee to flawlessly cater to the needs of the beneficiary.
Whatever the beneficiary needed as defined by the trust document, the trustee had the duty to try to provide. Without the trust document, we would simply devolve to the days of King John (pre-Magna Carta).
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