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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 91 - Trusts and Estates » Chapter 13 - Fiduciary Investments

§ 91-13-1. Investment by fiduciaries of funds held in trust

All trustees, guardians, and other fiduciaries in this state, unless prohibited by the will, deed, or trust instrument of the testator or other person establishing the trust, agency, or fiduciary relationship, or unless by any such instrument another mode of investment is prescribed, may, in addition to methods of investment now authorized by law, invest […]

§ 91-13-11. Tennessee Valley Authority bonds and obligations as legal investments

All bonds and other obligations issued by the Tennessee Valley Authority under the provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as heretofore or hereafter amended, shall be legal investments for trustees and other fiduciaries, for the public employees’ retirement system of Mississippi, and for banks, savings banks, trust companies, building and loan associations, […]

§ 91-13-3. Authority to prudently invest in all property

In acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling, and managing property held in fiduciary capacity, the fiduciary shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing which men of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of […]

§ 91-13-5. “Legal investment” construed

Whenever the express terms or limitations set forth in any will, agreement, court order, or other instrument use the terms “legal investment” or “authorized investment” or words of similar import, such words shall be conclusively presumed to mean any investment authorized or permitted by Section 91-13-3.

§ 91-13-6. Federally insured accounts and certificates of deposit as legal investments

All trustees, guardians, administrators, executors and other fiduciaries may, without court order, if not prohibited by the instrument, judgment, decree or order establishing the fiduciary relationship, invest or deposit funds held in a fiduciary capacity in time certificates of deposit, savings accounts or other interest-bearing accounts of (a) any state or national bank (including itself, […]

§ 91-13-7. General powers of courts not affected

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit the power of a court of competent jurisdiction to permit a fiduciary to take any action authorized, or to restrain a fiduciary from taking any action prohibited by a decree of such court, notwithstanding the permissions or restrictions contained in any written instrument under which […]

§ 91-13-8. Direct obligations of United States of America to include interests in certain open-end or closed-end management type investment company or investment trust

All trustees, guardians, administrators, executors and other fiduciaries, whenever a governing instrument or order directs, requires, authorizes or permits investment in direct obligations of the United States of America, may invest in such obligations either directly or in the form of securities of, or other interests in, any open-end or closed-end management type investment company […]

§ 91-13-9. Application of chapter

Fiduciaries acting under authority heretofore or hereafter granted shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter. The powers granted by this chapter to trustees, guardians, and other fiduciaries shall be in addition to the powers existing by virtue of other laws heretofore enacted authorizing investments by fiduciaries.