Investment Trust Funds Are One of Four Types of Fiduciary

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Essay

Investment trust funds are one of four types of fiduciary funds. What is the purpose of investment trust funds? What is the nature of the assets and liabilities that they report? Can the government that provides an investment trust fund invest its own assets in that fund?

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Definitions:

Recency Effect

The phenomenon where more recently presented information is better remembered and has a stronger influence on judgment than older information.

Transference

In psychotherapy, the phenomenon where patients project feelings or attitudes from past relationships onto the therapist.

Halo Effect

A cognitive bias where the perception of one positive trait leads to the assumption of other positive traits in an individual.

Upward Counterfactual

Thinking about how a situation could have turned out better, often leading to feelings of regret.