§ 21-203. Standards of care

MD State Pers & Pens Code § 21-203 (2019) (N/A)
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A fiduciary shall discharge the fiduciary's duties with respect to the several systems solely in the interest of the participants and as follows:

(1)    for the exclusive purposes of providing benefits to the participants and for reasonable expenses of administering the several systems;

(2)    with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing, that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims;

(3)    by diversifying the investments of the several systems so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so;

(4)    in accordance with the laws governing the several systems; and

(5)    in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the several systems to the extent that the documents and instruments are consistent with this subtitle.