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Blind Trust

What is a Blind Trust?

A Blind Trust is an asset holding construction

A blind trust is a trust in which the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust, and no right to intervene in their handling

In a blind trust, the trustees (fiduciaries, or those who have been given power of attorney) have full discretion over the assets. Blind trusts are generally used when a trust creator (sometimes called a settlor, trustor, grantor, or donor) wishes for the beneficiary to be unaware of the specific assets in the trust, such as to avoid conflict of interest between the beneficiary and the investments.

Politicians or others in sensitive positions often place their personal assets (including investment income) into blind trusts, to avoid public scrutiny and accusations of conflicts of interest when they direct government funds to the private sector.

Source: Wikipedia

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What does BCC mean?

BCC means Blind Carbon Copy

BCC means blind copy and is used when sending an email. With the receivers it is often possible to also fill in a BCC receiver field. When you use the Bcc field, it means that the normal recipients of the e-mail cannot see the BCC email addresses. It seems as if the people in the BCC field do not receive the mail, from a privacy point of view it is good to do so. Also to reduce unwanted mail it is useful to use Bcc: reply to all or reply to all has no effect on the Bcc people. In business, BCC is often used if the recipient is not allowed to know that the message is also sent to others.