Government mulls legislation to clarify legal duties of trustees

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Trustees are to be given new tools by the government to improve their oversight and clarify fiduciary duty in a shake up of trustee responsibilities.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills will next month publish detailed proposals to make companies improve their reporting practices to help trustees make sense of risks posed by equit...

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