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urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:2127
citation: "R.S. 9:2127"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book III › Code Title II › Chapter 1 › Part V › Subpart C"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1986, number: 178, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1991, number: 665, section: 2, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2001, number: 520, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Standard of care in investing and management

Unless the trust instrument provides otherwise, a trustee shall invest and manage trust property as a prudent investor. In satisfying this standard, the trustee shall consider the purposes, terms, distribution requirements, and other circumstances of the trust. A trustee's investment and management decisions are to be evaluated in the context of the trust property as a whole and as part of an overall investment strategy having risk and return objectives reasonably suited to the trust. In investing within the limitations of the foregoing standard, a trustee is authorized to retain and acquire every kind of property.