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Charities (Protection and Social Investment) Bill [HL]

Does the noble Lord accept that charity trustees now understand that if they are making financial investments they must get

advice? Do we need to write into the Bill that charity trustees ought to get appropriate advice before making financial investments? It is understood that they must do that—everyone understands that. All that is happening here is that social investment will have exactly the same requirements. At the moment, everyone understands that if you are going to make financial investments you will take advice. You will now take advice over social investments too. It does not need special categorisation. If it were categorised especially, people would start to say, “That is more difficult. We should not do it”.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
762 c204GC 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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