November 28, 2002
Stock Market, Interest Rates Force Nonprofit Groups to Rethink Charitable Trusts
The potential for payout problems with charitable remainder trusts is forcing charitable groups, donors, and financial institutions to rethink their giving approaches, and causing some donors to be more cautious in how they set up charitable gifts that fluctuate with interest rates or the stock market, planned-giving experts say.
In a typical charitable remainder trust, a donor contributes cash, stock, or some other asset to the trust, which makes regular payments to the donor. When
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