Total return investment for permanently endowed charities
Guidance for trustees of permanently endowed charities considering adopting a total return approach to investing the charity's funds.
Applies to England and Wales
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This guidance is for charities with permanent endowment. It is about:
- the power to adopt a total return approach to investment, and
- the power to further resolve to make social investments with a negative or uncertain return
Read this guidance to understand:
- what total return investment means for permanently endowed charities
- how to adopt the power to use total return investment or to further make social investments with a negative or uncertain financial return
- trustees鈥� duties with regard to using the powers
- allocating total return between income and capital
- what happens if the charity already has a total return investment order from the Commission, or an order authorising social investment with a negative or uncertain financial return