Trustee Investment Powers and the Higher Form

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in this video we're going to be talking about trustee powers and specifically we're going to be looking at investment and the power of investment for trustees so trustees have four main powers and the main one that i just mentioned is the power of investment and that's what this video and probably the next couple of videos after this are going to be focused on but they also have a few other different powers as well so the power to maintain the power to advance and other miscellaneous powers but first of all the trustees power of investment so the duty of care and the related duty to preserve the trust property mean that the trustees have both the power and the duty unless otherwise provided within the trust instrument to invest any trust property so there is a duty to preserve the property meaning trustees can invest any trust property unless otherwise provided within the trust instrument so there's a power and a duty to invest the trust property you cannot just sit with your hands in