Bridgeford Trust Company is a fully independent trust company chartered in South Dakota, providing conflict-free and innovative trust and fiduciary services and progressive U.S. modern trust law solutions around asset protection, privacy, and tax planning to domestic and international families across the country and around the world.

Over the past 25 years, Bridgeford Trust Company evolved from one of South Dakota’s first private trust companies into a public and modern trust company serving the global ultra-high net worth and family office space. Now the oldest and largest independently owned South Dakota chartered trust company, we leverage over 140 years of combined legal, accounting, and trust administrative experience executed through our talented and growing staff of fiduciary professionals, comprised primarily of JDs, CPAs, CFAs, and CTFAs, from offices in Pierre and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Bridgeford Trust Company is built around the unifying belief that high net worth individuals and families are vastly underserved by traditional bundled wealth management and trust administrative models. Driven by the demands and unique needs of affluent families, more change has occurred in the fiduciary industry in the past 20 years than has occurred in the previous two centuries. Leveraging cutting edge, modern trust laws, Bridgeford Trust Company – with its flexible, nimble, and entrepreneurial spirit and approach – is a part of this trend globally and represents a new and emerging wealth management service paradigm built around true independence, collaboration, and world-class capabilities.

“The trust industry is undergoing a quiet revolution that has wrested control of trust accounts away from traditional trustees – primarily in the banks and other large institutions – and back into the hands of independent trust companies and advisors.”