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fund, on the other hand, taxes the individual based on the entire previous tax year, regardless of the date purchased. An investor could, for example, purchase a mutual fund in October, absorb a loss during the last quarter of the year, and still be taxed on capital gains within the fund, depending on the overall performance of the underlying securities from January 1 of the current year. A UIT avoids such potential tax consequence by assembling an entirely new "investment" for each individual investor.
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A UIT is created by a document called the Trust Indenture. This document is drafted by the Sponsor of the fund, and names the Trustee and the Evaluator. By US law, the Sponsor and the Trustee may not be the same. The sponsor selects and assembles the securities to be included in the fund. The trustee
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From a tax perspective, UITs offer a shelter from the unrealized capital gains taxes typical inside of a mutual fund. Because individual UITs are assembled and purchased for specific periods of time, the cost basis consists of the initial purchase price of the securities held in the trust. A mutual
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A UIT may be constituted as either a regulated investment company (RIC) or a grantor trust. A RIC is a trust, corporation or partnership in which investors have common investment and voting rights but do not have direct interest in investments of the investment company or fund. A grantor trust, in
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Stock trusts are generally designed to provide capital appreciation and/or dividend income. They usually issue as many units (shares) as necessary for a set period of time before their primary offering period closes. Equity trusts have a set termination date, on which the trust liquidates and
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return of principal. The trust then continues paying the new monthly income amount until the next bond is redeemed. That continues until all the bonds have been liquidated out of the trust. Bond trusts are generally appropriate for clients seeking current income and stability of principal.
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Bond trusts issue a set number of units, and when they are all sold to investors, the trust's primary offering period is closed. Bond trusts pay monthly income, often in relatively consistent amounts, until the first bond in the trust is called or
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keeps the securities, maintains unitholder records, and performs all accounting and tax reporting for the portfolio. The largest issuer of UITs is
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having a definite life. Unlike open-end and closed-end investment companies, a UIT has no board of directors. A UIT is registered with the
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as proceeds to the unitholders. (The unitholders may then have special options for the reinvestment of this principal.)
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or update automatically to follow an index), and they can have lifetimes of over 100 years. For example, the
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A UIT portfolio may contain one of several different types of securities. The two main types are
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contrast, grants investors proportional ownership in the underlying securities.
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Trust is scheduled to terminate January 21, 2118, and the
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Unit trust
Investment trust
portfolio
securities
Securities and Exchange Commission
Investment Company Act of 1940
investment company
brokerage firms
stock
bond
fixed-income
mutual fund
bankruptcy
merger
net asset value
matures
pro-rata
First Trust Portfolios
Incapital
SmartTrust
Invesco Unit Trusts
Millington Securities
Advisors Asset Management
Guggenheim Funds
brokerage firms
Merrill Lynch
LPL Financial
exchange-traded funds
portfolios
managed

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