Foundation of the Swiss Trust Company in Basel by Swiss Bank Corporation

The Swiss Trust Company is co-founder of the Swiss Chamber of Auditors (today’s Treuhand-Kammer, otherwise known as the ‘Swiss Institute of Certified Accountants and Tax Consultants’)

Start of co-operation with Coopers & Lybrand International. The Swiss Trust Company becomes an associate member of that organisation

Management buy-out by the staff of the time, who become partners. Swiss Trust Company-Coopers & Lybrand AG becomes the new parent company

The company is split into two parts: on the one hand, the auditing division and the associated consultancy divisions, which merge with PricewaterhousCoopers AG in 1998; on the other, the trust division, comprising the Swiss Trust Company and STG Holding AG, which are taken over by Rentenanstalt (today’s Swiss Life)

SwissLife sells STG Holding AG to LGT Group, Vaduz. The name is changed to LGT Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft AG (LGT Swiss Trust Company AG)

The company is taken over by a group of Swiss private investors, and re-named Schweizerische Treuhandgesellschaft AG (Swiss Trust Company AG). A nationwide trust business, the company has offices in Basel (headquarters), Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich, and employs a staff of approximately fifty

The branches in Lausanne and Geneva are being sold to the employees. The company has offices in Basel (headquarters), Berne, Fribourg and Zurich, and employs a staff of approximately thirty.