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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 8 of 16Draft

Financial & Fiduciary

192 organisations are counted with Financial & Fiduciary as their primary sector — 6% of everything with a sector on record, and the 8th largest of 16. A further 31 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

The count

192

organisations counted with Financial & Fiduciary as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

223Work in it at all
11Sub-sectors on record
9Parishes represented
151With capabilities mapped
2Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

192 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 82%

An estimated 82% of this sector’s organisations are counted — the 6th-highest measured coverage of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

Financial & Fiduciary organisations with a website of their own90%Counted over all 192 active organisations173 of 192, against 67% island-wide — 23 points above the island rate, the highest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.
Share of parish-known Financial & Fiduciary based in St Peter Port87%A parish on record for 191 of 192 organisations (99%)166 of the 191 whose parish is on record — a concentration of 2.03 against the parish's share of everything counted, the highest parish concentration of the 9 sectors where it can be counted.
Capabilities on record for the typical mapped organisation8A capability on record for 151 of 192 organisations (79%)Median across the 151 with any capability on record, against 3 island-wide, the highest median capability count of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Depth is partly a fact about the taxonomy the sector draws on, not only about what its firms sell.
Financial & Fiduciary organisations naming who they serve76%Client types on record for 146 of 192 organisations (76%)146 of 192. Most named: Corporate Client (86), High-Net-Worth Individual (73), Private Client (73). A firm naming two is counted under both. No island comparison — that seam is below the tier floor.

What stands out

#signature

Jurisdictions covered

On record for 133 of the 192 counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. A firm that serves one of these without publishing the fact is not counted here, so every row is a floor.

Jurisdictions covered#signature-sector-specific

Jurisdictions covered — Financial & Fiduciary

Jurisdictions covered on record for 133 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (69%)

Guernsey130 98%UK52 39%Jersey46 35%Isle of Man29 22%Luxembourg19 14%Hong Kong17 13%Switzerland16 12%Cayman Islands15 11%Ireland15 11%USA15 11%Singapore14 11%Malta13 10%Mauritius11 8%Middle East10 8%BVI9 7%UAE9 7%France7 5%Bahamas6 5%Cyprus5 4%Bermuda4 3%

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. A firm that serves one of these without publishing the fact is not counted here, so every row is a floor.

Sub-sectors

#composition

Insurance leads, on 40 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 31 organisations outside this count work in Financial & Fiduciary alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2

Financial & Fiduciary by sub-sector

Counted over all 192 active Financial & Fiduciary organisations

Insurance40 21%Trust & Fiduciary34 18%Investment Management32 17%Corporate Services20 10%Private Banking17 9%Fund Administration15 8%Regulatory & Compliance11 6%Financial Advisory & Planning10 5%Pension Services8 4%Payment Services & FX3 2%Direct at sector level2 1%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

2 organisations are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 31 further organisations work in Financial & Fiduciary alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

St Peter Port holds 166 of them

87% of the 191 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 1 on Alderney.

Financial & Fiduciary organisations by parish

A parish on record for 191 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (99%)

Organisations0166
St Peter P…166St Sampson8Vale3Castel4St Saviour2St Pierre du Bois2Forest1St Martin4St Andrew1

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

a further 1 organisation trades on Alderney, Sark or Herm and is counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Concentration#parishes-lq

Where Financial & Fiduciary is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 191 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (99%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…2.03St Sampson0.31ValeCastelSt SaviourSt Pierre du BoisForestSt MartinSt Andrew

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

The same island, drawn on a location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all. Parishes holding fewer than 30 of this sector are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence: a quotient over a handful of organisations moves on one new record, and a superlative that flips that easily is not one.

Founding years

#age

Half of those with a founding year began after 2001

The island's median is 2006. Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#age-eras

Financial & Fiduciary organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 149 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (78%)

02040pre-18001950–792000–09402020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Capabilities

#capabilities

The typical mapped organisation holds 8 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

79% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 2 domains, against 71% island-wide, the 3rd-highest capability coverage of the 12 sectors where it can be counted. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 151 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (79%)

Corporate, fiduciary & funds101 67%Investment & funds59 39%Risk, regulatory & compliance52 34%Accountancy & tax46 30%Insurance44 29%Business consulting & advisory42 28%Banking & lending37 25%Pensions & retirement37 25%Legal26 17%Wealth & financial advice22 15%Recruitment, training & coaching7 5%IT & technology6 4%Estate agency & property3 2%Specialist services1 1%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

109 of the 151 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (72%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 151 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (79%)

Family office services66 44%Trustee services52 34%Company administration50 33%Trust administration44 29%Governance advisory40 26%Investment management37 25%Directorship services36 24%Regulatory compliance36 24%Fund administration35 23%Company secretarial33 22%Pensions & employee benefits32 21%Company formation & incorporati…30 20%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 151 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (79%)

Organisations039
Family offic…Trustee serv…Company admi…Trust admini…Governance a…Investment m…Directorship…Regulatory c…Fund adminis…Company secr…Pensions & e…Company form…Family offic…Trustee serv…Company admi…Trust admini…Governance a…Investment m…Directorship…Regulatory c…Fund adminis…Company secr…Pensions & e…Company form…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 141 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (73%)

Core to the business124 88%One of many services102 72%This is what they do87 62%A sideline6 4%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Client types

On record for 146 of 192. These are not alternatives: a firm naming two client types is counted under both, so the rows add up to more than the organisations behind them. No island comparison is offered — the island-wide seam sits below the tier floor.

Client types#client-types

Client types — Financial & Fiduciary

Client types on record for 146 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (76%)

Corporate Client86 59%High-Net-Worth Individual73 50%Private Client73 50%Regulated Business48 33%Family Office Principal35 24%Investment Fund33 23%Institutional Investor28 19%Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individual18 12%Charity16 11%Private Equity Sponsor15 10%Financial Services13 9%Policyholder13 9%Settlor or Beneficiary12 8%Listed Company11 8%Regulated Firms9 6%Financial Intermediary8 5%Captive Owner7 5%SMEs7 5%Offshore Savers5 3%Businesses2 1%

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Online presence

#digital

90% of Financial & Fiduciary organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 23 points above the island rate, the highest own-site rate of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 192 active Financial & Fiduciary organisations

Financial & FiduciaryThe island
0%50%100%Has a website67%90%Website on a .gg domain18%27%Links a social account of any kind44%52%Links a Facebook page30%49%Links an Instagram account16%23%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between financial & fiduciary and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another.

Financial & Fiduciary organisations with a website of their own173Counted over all 192 active Financial & Fiduciary organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain1 in 5Counted over all 192 active Financial & Fiduciary organisations34 of 173, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.

Legal form and ownership

#form

Legal form, ownership and size — as far as they are published

These are published far less often than a phone number. Each module below states its own coverage, and renders the gap rather than a confident number over a silent base.

Financial & Fiduciary organisations by ownership

An ownership type on record for 128 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (67%)

Other40 31%Part of an international group29 23%Subsidiary or branch27 21%Privately held26 20%Family-owned4 3%Charity or not-for-profit1 1%States-owned1 1%

As each organisation describes itself. Where a parent is off-island, that is recorded only when it was found — there is no “no parent” record, so this is not a count of independence.

Memberships and regulators

#trust

What this sector says it belongs to

Memberships, regulatory statuses and certifications as each organisation publishes them, folded to the name they share. This is a text-match floor, not a licensee count — the register itself is the authority on who is licensed.

Credentials named by Financial & Fiduciary organisations

A credential on record for 95 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (49%)

On record for 49% — indicative
Guernsey Finance36 38%Guernsey Chamber of Commerce26 27%STEP20 21%GFSC regulated13 14%ICSA9 9%IoD8 8%ACA7 7%CISI7 7%GAPP Member5 5%Guernsey Association of Trustees5 5%ACCA4 4%Fiduciary - Primary Licensee4 4%

An organisation naming two of these is counted under both. Values held by a single organisation are dropped — one firm's bespoke award is not a sector signal.

17 further credentials are on record below the top of this list.

Opening hours

#hours

The sector’s working week

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock

Financial & Fiduciary organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 110 of 192 Financial & Fiduciary organisations (57%)

On record for 57% — indicative
Organisations open0110
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1% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 3% on a Saturday. The median week runs 40 hours. Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 114 hold hours of some shape, of which 110 resolve to a weekly grid and 4 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse

The last 90 days

+61
Financial & Fiduciary organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Financial & Fiduciary, island.gg/census/financial-fiduciary — as of 4 September 2026.

The whole census →

How this chapter counts

#method

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 192 active organisations whose primary sector is Financial & Fiduciary 6% of the 3,406 with a primary sector on record; the wider 223 who work in Financial & Fiduciary at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 191, a founding year for 149, a capability resolved to the graph for 151, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 110 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 82% on 3 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →