The Board of Trustees of the Fund is obligated to administer its pension fund for the exclusive benefit of fire fighters and police officers of the City of San Antonio, Texas, their qualified survivors and dependents. In performance of this obligation, the Board of Trustees is required to administer the Fund in accordance with Article 6243o, Vernon’s Texas Civil Statutes, and other applicable state and federal laws and regulations. In furtherance of these obligations, the Board of Trustees hereby adopts the following Standards of Conduct, Financial Disclosure, and Conflict Disclosure (“Standards”): |
Under Texas statutes and applicable federal law and regulations, the Fund is a trust fund to be administered solely in the interests of the participants and beneficiaries thereof, for the exclusive purpose of providing retirement, survivor and disability benefits to participants and beneficiaries and to defray reasonable expenses of the trust. In performance of these duties, all Fiduciaries (as herein defined) shall exercise their duties with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the prevailing circumstances that a prudent investor acting in a like capacity and familiar with matters of the type would use in the conduct of an enterprise with a like character and like aims. Further, all Fiduciaries of the Fund shall maintain high ethical and moral character, both professionally and personally, such that the conduct of all Fiduciaries shall not reflect negatively upon the Fund. A Fiduciary shall not knowingly and willingly breach a duty imposed by these Standards. Words of any gender used in these Standards shall be held and construed to include any other gender and words in the singular number shall be held to include the plural, and vice versa, unless the context requires otherwise. .... Read More> |