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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="12-203" title_number="12" title_name="Maryland Small Business Retirement Savings Program and Trust" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Establishment; Powers and Duties of Board">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board, the Program administrator, and staff shall discharge the duties with respect to the Trust solely in the interest of the Program participants as follows:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for the exclusive purposes of providing benefits to Program participants and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the Program; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>by  selecting investment options or programs that will invest with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with those matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board shall prepare, adopt, and annually review a written statement of investment policy that includes a risk management and oversight program.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The investment policy shall consider investment options or programs that will seek to mitigate risk by maintaining a balanced investment portfolio that provides assurance that no single investment or class of investments will have a disproportionate impact on the total portfolio.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The risk management and oversight program shall be designed to ensure that an effective risk management system is in place to monitor the risk levels of the Program investment portfolio and ensure that the risks taken are prudent and properly managed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
