What with all the turmoil in the financial markets you could be excused for wondering just where it might be safe to actually put your money. Into hte hands of a decent money manager is the answer, but where do you find one of those?

Further, you need to make sure that the services on offer are the ones that you actually want: there’s no point in having a simple savings account when you want exposure to the markets, and no point in buying stocks if it’s security of income that you need.

The other thing is that in troubled times you want to make the same flight to quality that everyone else does: long established, large, safe, these are the catch phrases. Which brings us to Northern Trust, a investment management services company. They’ve been around for well over a century, well over $ trillion in assets under custody and over $700 billion under management. If you’re an affluent family or corporation or institution, their specialty, you should check them out.