ERISA contains general fiduciary standards that apply to all fiduciary actions, including investment decisions made by fiduciaries. ERISA requires that a plan fiduciary must discharge its duties solely in the interests of participants and beneficiaries:

• for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to plan participants and beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of plan administration;
• with the care, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims;
• by diversifying the investments of the plan so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so; and,
• in accordance with plan documents insofar as they are consistent with ERISA.