Part 3Trustees’ duties and information obligations
Duties of trustee: Default duties
30Duty to invest prudently
When exercising any power to invest trust property, a trustee must exercise the care and skill that a prudent person of business would exercise in managing the affairs of others, having regard, in particular,—
- to any special knowledge or experience that the trustee has or that the trustee holds out as having; and
- if the person acts as a trustee in the course of a business or profession, to any special knowledge or experience that it is reasonable to expect of a person acting in the course of that kind of business or profession.


