That entails four things:
You must act in the organisation’s best interests. For example, you should avoid conflicts of interest. With your colleagues, you’re required to make balanced and well-informed decisions.
You must manage your resources responsibly. Any financial assets should be invested carefully, without exposing them to undue risk.
You must act with reasonable care and skill — a requirement that’s sometimes referred to as the duty of care.
You must ensure your organisation is accountable. That might be to your members, or the beneficiaries of a particular fund or endowment.
When directors and trustees fail in their duties, they can become liable to claims by third parties.
In the US, there’s been a big increase in recent years in trustees being sued — mainly for poor investment performance resulting from excessive fees paid to fund managers and other intermediaries.
It’s likely we’ll see similar cases in the UK as well. So, failure to discharge your responsibilities as a trustee properly can have very serious consequences for you personally, as well as for your organisation.
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