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As a leading wealth management firm, we offer proactive expert advice and comprehensive capabilities including financial planning, investment management, private and business banking, trust and estate services, philanthropic advisory, online services and family office solutions.

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We provide asset administration and trust and fiduciary services to exceptionally wealthy families, their family offices and their foundations and endowments. We deliver high-touch personal service, underpinned by institutional-strength operational capabilities.
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We provide asset administration and trust and fiduciary services to exceptionally wealthy families, their family offices and their foundations and endowments. We deliver high-touch personal service, underpinned by institutional-strength operational capabilities.

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We provide asset administration and trust and fiduciary services to exceptionally wealthy families, their family offices and their foundations and endowments. We deliver high-touch personal service, underpinned by institutional-strength operational capabilities.
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Discover our asset management solutions and investment capabilities in index management, cash management and active equity and fixed income.  Learn more about our tailored expertise including benchmark customisation and investment programme oversight.
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Discover our asset management solutions and investment capabilities in index management, cash management and active equity and fixed income.  Learn more about our tailored expertise including benchmark customisation and investment programme oversight.
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Discover our asset management solutions and investment capabilities in index management, active equity and fixed income. Also learn more about our tailored expertise including benchmark customisation and responsible investing.
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Learn about asset management solutions incorporating equity and fixed income products that employ active, passive or quantitative investment approaches, manager of managers oversight programs including alternatives exposure, as well as transition management and securities lending services.
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Learn about asset servicing solutions including cash management, cross-border pooling, fund services for traditional, alternative and exchange traded funds, foreign exchange, global custody, investment operations outsourcing, investment risk and performance analytical services, securities lending and transition management.
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Learn about asset servicing solutions including cross-border pooling, fund services for traditional and alternative funds, global custody, investment operations outsourcing, investment risk and performance analytical services, securities lending, transition management and treasury services.
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Protecting your financial security today and for generations to comeAs a leader in trust and estate services, we work with you and your advisors to create sophisticated wealth transfer strategies that protect and preserve your wealth.
 
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Plan for the Future with Confidence

As a leader in trust and estate services, we work with you and your advisors to create sophisticated wealth transfer strategies.  Effective estate planning enables you to minimize the impact of taxes on your estate and can also help protect your assets from unexpected health, personal and business risks.

  • Wealth transfer planning
  • Custom trust solutions
  • Trust administration
  • Estate settlement services
  • Guardianship services
  • Family business services
  • Real estate and agricultural services
  • Minerals, oil and gas management
Plan for Special Assets
Offering broad-based expertise in the management of nonfinancial assets.
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Protect and Preserve Your Wealth
Helping you achieve a wide variety of wealth management and wealth transfer objectives.
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Transition Your Wealth
Ensuring that your wealth is transferred as you desire and that your loved ones are protected.
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R. Hugh Magill
R. Hugh Magill
Chief Fiduciary Officer
 
R. Hugh Magill is an Executive Vice President at The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, where he serves as Chief Fiduciary Officer and National Director of Trust Services. In this capacity he is responsible for Northern Trust’s fiduciary and philanthropic services to private clients nationally.

Prior to joining Northern Trust in September, 1989, Hugh practiced law privately in Chicago, and worked in the Trust Department at The First National Bank of Chicago where he served as Assistant to the Chief Investment Officer.

Hugh received a B.A. degree, cum laude, from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a J.D. degree from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was named a distinguished alumnus in 2005.

Hugh is a member of the Chicago, Illinois and American Bar Associations, the Chicago Estate Planning Council, and the Christian Legal Society. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Minnesota and admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court. He is a faculty member of the American Banker’s Association National Trust School and lectures for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, many Bar Associations, and Northern Trust on estate and charitable planning, trust administration, and fiduciary risk management. He serves on the Boards of the Creator Arts Center, the Block Museum of Art, and several foundations. He is a member of the Site Council for the Gaylord Building of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America. He and his wife reside in Winnetka, Illinois with their three children.

 
 
 
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