Wealth - Winter 2012
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Spring 2009

News and Notes

Re-evaluate Your Financial Strategy

Living well tomorrow starts today. Maintaining financial security and making the right choices during these uncertain times are causing many individuals and families to review their wealth management strategies. A Northern Trust professional can provide advice and help you implement a strategy based on your current needs and target goals, taking into account shifting market conditions. We take a holistic approach that integrates sophisticated investment and wealth transfer strategies, is tax-efficient and backed by an ongoing risk management process. We understand the challenges that have resulted from the current investment and economic volatility, but also know that these same market conditions can offer opportunities. Contact your relationship manager to discuss how we can help you navigate these turbulent times and better position yourself for the future.

Access insights and tools to help you make informed decisions for the future at northerntrust.com/ourexperts.

Sign Up to Receive Financial and Market Information Electronically

In today’s rapidly changing financial marketplace, providing information quickly is imperative. To ensure you receive our market and economic commentary as quickly as possible and always have the information at your fingertips, we are offering this information electronically.

We can e-mail to you our weekly market and economic commentary, “Insights from Northern Trust,” in which our experts examine the changing financial landscape.

We can deliver both the monthly Perspective newsletter — written by Jim McDonald, Northern Trust’s chief investment strategist — and notification about our monthly financial market update calls directly to your in-box. You can read the updates at your convenience, without any delay in delivery.

Contact your relationship manager to sign up for electronic distribution, or send a message to ContactNorthern@ntrs.com with your name, e-mail address and whether you’d like to receive Perspective, monthly financial market update call notification or both.

Hear From Our Experts

We make it a priority to keep you informed and create an open dialogue on key financial market issues. Our Chief Investment Strategist, Jim McDonald; Director of Economic Research, Paul L. Kasriel; and other Northern Trust experts provide weekly commentary and share their knowledge on current market and economic conditions. Also, join us for our Financial Market Update Calls where Northern Trust experts share their perspectives on the financial markets. Stay informed at northerntrust.com/marketevents.

Northern Trust Named to the BusinessWeek 50 Best-in-Class Performers

Even during this time when the financial markets and the economy are experiencing great challenges, Northern Trust continues to be recognized as a strong and stable institution. This was recently re-affirmed when Northern Trust was named to the BusinessWeek 50, representing the editors’ choice of “best in class” companies. “Northern Trust is known as a conservative wealth manager and a prudent lender,” BusinessWeek writes in the April 6 article. Learn More

An Enduring and Principled Company

Throughout our history, Northern Trust has led the financial services industry in aligning our efforts with our guiding principles. Our commitment to these principles at every level has helped make us a trusted advisor to individuals and institutions around the world. It also has earned us recognition globally. Here are some examples of what others have said about us in the past year alone.

Integrity
Northern Trust has a heritage of acting with the highest ethics, the utmost honesty and unfailing reliability. This has led to our recognition as:

Expertise
In everything we do, expertise is at our core. That is why we’re:

Service
Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service — not just to our clients, but for our partners and communities: