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Trusts, funding, and similar financial entities.

This category encompasses legal entities formed to pool shares or securities or other financial assets, without active management, on behalf of shareholders or beneficiaries. Their portfolios are adjusted to attain specific investment characteristics, such as diversification, risk, return level, and sensitivity to price changes. These entities earn interest, dividends, and other property income but have little to no operations and no income from the sale of goods or services. This category does not include trustees and financing entities that derive income from the sale of goods or services, holding company activities, pension funds, and financing management.