Your Wealth, Our Priority
About First Securities & Trust of Switzerland AG
Zurich-based private banking established in 1948 — three generations of quiet stewardship, over $1 trillion stewarded, and a philosophy built around treating each client as a mandate of one.
A bank that answers to its clients alone is best positioned to navigate everything else.
Our Heritage
Three generations of Swiss stewardship.
FS&T was established in post-war Zürich by a small group of Swiss bankers who believed wealth deserved the same disciplined stewardship across generations as it took to build. Over seven decades, we have remained independent and privately held.
That continuity is not nostalgia — it is the operational backbone that allows us to think in decades. Markets cycle, geopolitics shifts, regulatory regimes evolve. A bank that answers to its clients alone is best positioned to navigate all of it.
Our headquarters at Bahnhofstrasse 1 remain a deliberate symbol of that permanence. So does the Swiss banking DNA we carry: discretion, stability, and neutrality applied without compromise.
Founded on Principle
Built on trust.
From the beginning, our founders treated wealth management as a relationship rather than a transaction. That orientation has weathered every modern cycle — Bretton Woods, the oil shocks, the dot-com collapse, the global financial crisis, and the era of zero rates that followed.
In each, we protected client capital by preferring quality to speculation and patience to noise. The clients who have stayed with us across two and three generations are the most honest verdict on that approach.
Our Core Values
Four principles, deliberately few.
They are kept few on purpose — because they must hold under pressure.
Integrity
Rock-solid trustworthiness in every transaction. The highest fiduciary standard, transparent reporting, and no managed conflicts.
Expertise
Senior advisors averaging two decades in cross-border wealth, supported by multi-disciplinary teams in trust, tax, and investments.
Innovation
Time-tested philosophy, modern execution. Quantitative rigor in research, handcrafted judgment in advice.
Confidentiality
Swiss-grade privacy as statute, not slogan. Swiss Banking Act § 47, encrypted operations, and strict need-to-know discipline.
Why Clients Choose FS&T
A complete private bank, tailored to one client.
Our clients are entrepreneurs, multigenerational families, and institutions who have arrived at a clear conclusion: their wealth is consequential, and it deserves a bank organised around a single mandate rather than a product shelf.
Every mandate begins with listening — to your goals, constraints, and the texture of your life. We then assemble the specialists, structures, and instruments your situation requires. There is no template, no cookie-cutter portfolio.
Most of our clients live across borders, hold assets in multiple jurisdictions, and need a banker who can think coherently across all of them. Our network spans 27 jurisdictions, while our legal and regulatory anchor remains firmly Swiss.
Contact Us
A discreet conversation is the first step.
Every enquiry is encrypted in transit and reviewed only by a senior advisor. Bahnhofstrasse 1, Zürich · +41 44 123 45 67 · info@swissprivatetrust.com