Why Guernsey for Private Wealth?
Guernsey is globally recognised as a leader in private wealth, family office management and structuring.
Guernsey's strengths and excellent reputation come from our expert professional service providers, offering a range of flexible structures.
Individuals and families can easily manage their wealth, investments and philanthropic endeavours in a safe, secure and stable environment with close proximity to London and access to global markets.
Political and economic stability
Robust regulatory environment
Committed to international standards
Decades of expertise in private wealth
Guernsey offers a variety of trust and fiduciary arrangements and structures which provide flexible intergenerational wealth and investment management solutions for families and corporate entities.
Guernsey offers a range of vehicles for private wealth structuring including:
- protected cell companies (PCCs)
- incorporate cell companies (ICCs)
- private investment funds (PIFs)
- purpose trust
- charitable trust
Guernsey is an internationally trusted jurisdiction offering flexible limited company structures
The Guernsey Foundation is an incorporated entity with a separate legal personality. The vehicle includes the best attributes of those foundations based in other jurisdictions with appropriate safeguards in line with Guernsey's regulatory environment. Foundations also offer a trusted, personal environment for philanthropic endeavours.
Guernsey has decades of experience offering bespoke services for single or multiple family offices
Guernsey has a full ecosystem of financial service providers supporting the private wealth industry across a range of specialisms. These include:
- private client lawyers
- corporate governance specialists
- accountancy services
- investment advisers
- investment managers
- administration services
- philanthropy and impact advisers
- aircraft and marine services
Offering discretionary investment management, investment advisory and execution-only private wealth investment services for trusts, fiduciaries and families.
Guernsey gives access to investment management services and a route to private equity, alternatives and mainstream investments.
The Guernsey Association of Trustees
GAT is the industry representative body for fiduciary licence holders in Guernsey. Our membership largely consists of Trust and Company service providers and individuals in the Bailiwick of Guernsey and fully regulated by the GFSC as either Full or Personal licensees, but also extends to lawyers, accountants, compliance professionals and other individuals locally with an interest in the fiduciary industry.
Through our Association GAT members can comment and help to shape local regulatory and legislative issues affecting the industry. Members also have the opportunity to voice opinion about external issues that affect Guernsey. Exclusive members-only events encourage networking with peers and GAT Sponsors, keep members up to speed with industry news and provide guidance on the practical application of changes impacting their business. Members receive monthly newsletters and mailshots directly to their inbox delivering relevant news, events and sponsor articles. To learn more about GAT and/or to apply to become a member, please visit our website.
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission
The GFSC is the regulatory body for the finance sector in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.

Trust and private clients
Explore the innovative Trusts (Guernsey) Law, 2007. In this piece, readers will learn about the relationships between Protectors, Settlors, Trustees and Beneficiaries, the fiduciary relationship. This piece explores the practical uses for a Trust, such as asset management and protection, free choice of beneficiaries including provision for vulnerable beneficiaries, multi-generational succession planning, philanthropy and flexibility over distribution of assets.
Why do people like working with Guernsey practitioners?
“Guernsey gives me good security, good governance, the political situation is stable – a premium these days.”

“Guernsey’s willingness to implement changes to the law sees it moving ahead of competing jurisdictions in offering technological solutions and electronic commerce tools to financial services businesses. The ability to amend the law at short notice, and thereby react in a rapidly evolving area of law, provides Guernsey with a platform to feal with future advances in respect of electronic transactions."

“Guernsey was our jurisdiction of choice due to the high level of regulation and standards that the corporate service providers re subject to in the island, this leaves the island with an excellent reputation of professional standards and ease of doing business. This gave us comfort that our intergenerational planning and trust structuring decision to be in Guernsey was the right choice for us.”

"The research commissioned by Guernsey Finance revealed there are approximately 5,000 family offices operating worldwide, mostly in Europe and North America – a number that has roughly doubled in the last decade. As the family office becomes ever more popular as a vehicle for the servicing of private wealth, enabling global capital flows into both private and public markets, the issue of good governance – and how to achieve it – becomes an issue of great urgency. Guernsey, as a jurisdiction at the forefront of family office and the serving of private wealth, is better placed than many to advise further on this issue. This report sets out how ultra-high net-worth (UHNW) families can improve governance – and why it is unquestionably important to do so.”

“My SA client set up a Guernsey trust. The trusted advisor network and cross border expertise and depth of experience on the island made this an easy decision.”
“Guernsey is interpersonal, they work for not who they are, but who the client is and exceed expectations.”
“Guernsey is about quality. We direct our clients there for trustee services because it’s not flash – it’s filled with intelligent, measured and professional individuals who are not cavalier with regulations, tax responsibilities and the client’s money. For families wanting support in the sensible and responsible stewardship of private capital, this is ideal.”
“Guernsey has been very helpful in both finance and legal assistance. I would highly recommend it if you delight in dealing with serious professionals.”
“The Guernsey offering has enabled us to diversify our booking centres without compromising the quality of the service and regulation for our clients. In fact, we have found the quality to be superior to some of the sister Channel Islands simply because the smaller scale provides a more dedicated and hence higher level of customer service. There is nothing we can achieve in any of our other booking centres that we cannot in Guernsey.”
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