2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 362 Banks and Trust Companies
Section 362.580 Common trust fund authorized.
Effective 28 Aug 1977
Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 362362.580. Common trust fund authorized. — 1. Any state or national bank or trust company qualified to act as fiduciary in this state may establish common trust funds for the purpose of furnishing investments to itself as fiduciary, or to itself and others as cofiduciaries, or to other banks and trust companies acting as fiduciaries or cofiduciaries. Funds may be invested in such common trust fund only if the investment is not prohibited by the instrument, judgment, decree, or order creating the fiduciary relationships, and if, in the case of cofiduciaries, the banks or trust companies procure the consent of their cofiduciaries to the investment.
2. This section shall apply to fiduciary relationships now in existence or hereafter established.
(L. 1967 p. 445, A.L. 1977 S.B. 250)
(Source: RSMo 1959 § 363.225)
(1967) Only a bank acting as fiduciary or cofiduciary is eligible to invest trust funds in a common trust fund maintained by the bank, and these funds cannot be transferred or assigned to another person. Leith v. Mercantile Trust Company National Association (A.), 423 S.W.2d 75.
