Study on Trustee's Duties of Care and Loyalty in Asset Management Schemes for the Elderly

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K17039
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: New fields of law
• Research Institution: Kokushikan University
• Principal Investigator: Taoka Eriko 国士舘大学, 法学部, 准教授 (20551039)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 信託法 / 受託者 / 忠実義務

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In response to the rapidly aging society, there are increasing needs among the elderly for managing their assets in trust schemes in Japan. This is posing new challenges to Japanese trust law, because trusts have been primarily used by trust banks to create investment schemes in Japan, while private trusts to manage one's assets and/or leaving assets to his family members have hardly ever been utilized. Therefore, it is necessary to focus on rules on such private trusts by tailoring existing rules created based on commercial trusts. This research aims to meet the necessity by employing comparative legal study primarily on English trust law.

Free Research Field

民法　信託法