The most widely used vehicle for assets protection is a Trust. A variety of assets including immovable can be held in a trust. We assist you to protect your wealth and assets and save estate duty.

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Private Trust Company

Powerful families whose wealth is substantial, diversified and international may already have structured their affairs with a reputable trust provider, and then find that administrative and legal costs of running the structure exceed expectations. Because of the often discretionary nature of such structures, the family may feel that the professionals who are administering the structure add unnecessary complexity, increase administrative burden and benefit themselves from ever-increasing fees and profits.
An innovative concept in such circumstances is to consider the possibility of setting up a private trust company: a team of advisors and officers, employed rather than engaged, truly independent and dedicated to the family, seeking flexible ways to protect the family’s assets. At EFS we can assist in setting up a private trust company which can be entirely owned by the family and can provide fiduciary and wealth management services dedicated solely to the family for the generations to come.


There are numerous benefits in setting up such a vehicle:

• It affords the family additional supervisory control over the assets, which is often left to the discretion of the independent trustees in traditional trust setup.

• It can enable the operating family business itself to be held in trust.

• It may encourage family members to become more hands-on in managing the family’s interests, and foster the family’s inherent wealth creation capabilities.

• It can be used as a training ground for younger family members who may be important to some families where the matriarch and/or patriarch wish to cede control gradually whilst being able to supervise such a transition.

• It can itself select the most qualified outside investment managers in each asset class. This safeguards independent advice, because the private trust company has no vested interest in selling its own financial products.