The Maryland Prudent Investor Rule
The Prudent Investor Rule was codified in Maryland in 1994, by §15-114 of the Estates & Trusts Article. The statute allows a fiduciary to utilize Modern Portfolio Theory in making investment elections for a trust, an estate or other beneficiary investments. Modern Portfolio Theory frees a trustee from rigid and outdated trust investment practices, and allows use of the full range of modern investment tools in selecting and managing portfolios for trust beneficiaries. The Prudent Investor Rule, however, only applies to a fiduciary that is a trust company or an investment advisor, or an individual trustee who makes a valid…