Where a personal trust officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a personal trust officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Personal trust officers monitor and administer personal trusts. They interpret trust and testamentary documentation accordingly, interact with financial advisors to define the investment goal for the achievement of trust objectives, coordinate the purchase and sale of securities with account executives and review clients' accounts regularly.
Also known as personal trust manager, trustee officer, personal trust supervisor.
Professionals 30 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: securities broker, 43%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A personal trust officer needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- examine trusts information skills
- maintain trusts management skills
- communicate with beneficiaries communication, collaboration and creativity
- monitor title procedures information skills
- identify clients' needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- property law business, administration and law
- investment analysis business, administration and law
- review investment portfolios communication, collaboration and creativity
- actuarial science natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
- securities business, administration and law
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Personal trust officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a personal trust officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.