Notes for trust officers, private bankers and others concerned with estate and trust planning, from a Merrill Anderson Senior Editor and his retired mentor.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Wealth managers are creating captive trust companies
Says Scott Martin of The Trust Advisor. Most of the action seems to be in South Dakota, Delaware and Nevada. Apparently, all you need is about $100 million in assets under management.
More than a century ago, financial hotshots discovered they could become unregulated bankers by forming trust companies. It didn't end well. J. P. Morgan had to clean up the mess. Let's hope today's investment advisers do better after ducking SEC supervision by becoming trust companies. These days most states, and certainly my state, have little money or personnel for expanded supervision of trust institutions. Come to think of it, my state is still smarting from a financial fraud that fell between the cracks separating various state regulators.
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More than a century ago, financial hotshots discovered they could become unregulated bankers by forming trust companies. It didn't end well. J. P. Morgan had to clean up the mess. Let's hope today's investment advisers do better after ducking SEC supervision by becoming trust companies. These days most states, and certainly my state, have little money or personnel for expanded supervision of trust institutions. Come to think of it, my state is still smarting from a financial fraud that fell between the cracks separating various state regulators.
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