30+ YEARS OF GROUP HISTORY
Our Services
Q Trustees provides the full spectrum of trust and succession services, from structure design to ongoing administration, with the independence, precision, and accountability that professional trusteeship demands.
Trust Structures
We design, establish, and administer bespoke trust structures across the full range of trust types, ranging from discretionary, fixed, protective, purpose, and charitable, selecting the jurisdiction and vehicle best suited to your family's specific circumstances and long-term objectives.
Our trust practice covers the complete lifecycle: deed drafting and establishment, trustee governance, beneficiary management, asset custody coordination, and ongoing administration. Every structure is built to be legally sound, practically executable, and capable of serving the generations that follow. We work across leading trust jurisdictions, including Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Jersey, the Cayman Islands, and Singapore, advising on the most appropriate framework for each client's profile.
Estate Planning & Succession
Preserving wealth across generations requires more than careful investment. It requires structure, foresight, and legal clarity before it is needed. We work with clients and their legal advisors to design cross-border succession frameworks, coordinate the drafting of wills and inheritance instruments across relevant jurisdictions, and establish the holding vehicles - trusts, foundations, or a combination, appropriate to the family's profile and wishes.
Where cross-border complexity is involved, we act as the steady coordinating hand between the family, their legal counsel, and the administrative entities holding their assets. The goal is a succession plan that is both legally robust and practically executable when it matters most.
Foundation Services
For clients where a foundation better serves their objectives, whether for succession, philanthropy, or asset holding, Q Trustees provides establishment and ongoing administration of foundations across applicable jurisdictions.
Foundations offer a distinct legal personality, board-governed structure, and in certain jurisdictions, greater flexibility around purpose and beneficiary designation than a conventional trust. We advise on the comparative merits of each vehicle, and administer whichever structure best serves the client's long-term goals.
Corporate Trustee Services
As a professional, FINMA-licensed trustee, Q Trustees assumes the full responsibilities of trust administration, with the institutional standing, regulatory accountability, and documented fiduciary practice that the role demands.
We act as corporate trustee for existing trust structures where a professional counterpart is required, providing independent oversight of trust assets, proper execution of trustee duties, transparent reporting to beneficiaries, and ongoing governance in accordance with the trust deed and applicable law. Clients and their advisors can appoint Q Trustees with confidence that the trustee function is being discharged by a regulated entity subject to independent annual audit.
Family Office Services
For ultra-high-net-worth families requiring coordinated oversight of their wealth, Q Trustees, drawing on the full capabilities of Q Group, provides a comprehensive family office service that brings structure to complexity.
This encompasses trust and estate administration, succession and governance planning, consolidated reporting across asset classes and jurisdictions, philanthropic structuring, and the coordination of external advisors for legal, tax, banking, and investment, into a coherent whole. Our approach is that of a trusted, long-term partner: discreet, deeply engaged, and focused entirely on the continuity and growth of the family's wealth across generations.
A Professional Trustee with Swiss Roots & Global Reach
Q Trustees was established in 2007 as the dedicated trust administration arm of Q Group. Headquartered at Talacker 21 in Zurich, we serve private clients, families, and institutions who require a professional counterpart with the standing, regulatory licence, and experience that complex trust structures demand.