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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.
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.
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.
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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Institutional
Learn about asset management solutions including: global index management, active equity and fixed income, target retirement date funds, and manager of manager programs.
Individual
Get answers to your investment challenges with asset management capabilities including alternatives, exchange traded funds, fixed income, mutual funds and tax-advantaged equity.
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, responsible investing and investment programme oversight.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 more about asset servicing solutions including global custody, investment operations outsourcing, fund services for traditional and alternative funds, cross-border pooling, investment risk and performance analytical services, securities lending, transition management and treasury services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Learn more about asset servicing solutions including global custody, investment operations outsourcing, fund services for traditional and alternative funds, cross-border pooling, investment risk and performance analytical services, securities lending, transition management and treasury services.
Learn more about asset servicing solutions including global custody, investment operations outsourcing, fund services for traditional and alternative funds, investment risk and performance analytical services, securities lending, transition management and treasury services.
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Our bankers have extensive backgrounds in corporate, international and private banking, and will work with you to develop creative, customized strategies to suit you. We have expertise to address complex situations including challenging legal or tax structures, closely held businesses or complex trust and estate plans. Each banker is supported by credit analysts and associates to meet all your anticipated credit needs.

Our private finance facilities include:

  • Lines and Letters of Credit
  • Structured Finance
  • Margin Financing
  • Leasing
  • Interest Rate Swaps
  • Mortgages/Home Equity Lines
  • Residential Construction
  • Loans
  • Investment Program Leverage

Our deposit products include:

  • Personal and Commercial Sweep Accounts (Funds may be swept to non-FDIC insured investments)
  • Interest and Non-Interest Checking Accounts
  • Premium Money Market Deposit Accounts
  • Certificates of Deposit
  • Quarterly Tax Payments
  • Foreign Currency Accounts
  • Wire Transfers
  • Traditional and Roth Individual Retirement Accounts

Financing Structures specific to the Family Office Market

  • Attentive to interrelationship of cash flow requirements, tax and estate planning and asset allocation formulas
  • Strategic use of credit facilities may be established expeditiously without disrupting asset management strategies
  • Flexible financing for purchase/refinancing of residences with maturities that coincide with other facets of a financial plan
  • Monetize illiquid assets such as partnership and LLC interests
Jeff Kauffman

Jeff Kauffman

CEO, Global Family & Private Investment Offices
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Jeff Kauffman

Jeff Kauffman

CEO, Global Family & Private Investment Offices
 
Jeff Kauffman is Chief Executive Officer of our Global Family & Private Investment Office group. Jeff took on this role effective April 1, 2012. This group was formed by recombining our Wealth Management Groups in Chicago and EMEA as well as including the International Wealth Advisory business in Miami.

Prior to this role, Jeff was President and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Trust’s Personal Financial Services business in the Northeastern United States, serving in that position since April, 2006, and he also lead our international Wealth Management business in the EMEA Region since August, 2010. Previously, he served as President of our Greater New York area business for 3 years. He joined Northern Trust in 2003 from Goldman, Sachs and Co., where he worked from 1992 to 2003 and held several managerial roles, including Managing Director, Co-Head of the financial institutions group within the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities division. Mr. Kauffman originally joined Northern Trust in 1984 and held several roles in the commercial banking and corporate finance areas.

Mr. Kauffman holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University and a Master's degree in finance and marketing from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He holds NASD Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Mr. Kauffman serves on the Board of Governors of the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City, the Board of Trustees of the American Ballet Theatre in New York City, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Mr. Kauffman is a former member of the Board of Directors of The American Red Cross in Darien, Connecticut.

 
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