How Individual Trustees Botch Things Up

Barron's generously let me read this article for free. Maybe they'll do the same for you. See The Five Biggest Ways To Bungle a Trust.

The five ways?

Three failures:
   …to keep records
   …to diversify
   …to treat current beneficiaries and remaindermen fairly

And two unreasonable expectations::
   The family won't mind if I take a fee
   Nobody will sue me

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