Northern Trust
Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS) is a leading global financial services provider headquartered in Chicago with a presence across 24 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and 22 international locations spanning Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Founded in 1889, the company operates through… From the company’s description.
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What Northern Trust does
In the company’s own words
Northern Trust Corporation (NASDAQ: NTRS) is a leading global financial services provider headquartered in Chicago with a presence across 24 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and 22 international locations spanning Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Founded in 1889, the company operates through its principal subsidiary, The Northern Trust Company, an Illinois-chartered bank with consolidated assets of $176.4 billion as of December 31, 2025.
Northern Trust organizes its business around two primary client-focused reporting segments: Asset Servicing and Wealth Management. The Asset Servicing division serves as a leading global provider of custody, fund administration, investment operations outsourcing, securities lending, foreign exchange, treasury management, and related services to corporate and public retirement funds, foundations, endowments, fund managers, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds. As of year-end 2025, Asset Servicing managed $17.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, $13.6 trillion in assets under custody, and $1.3 trillion in assets under management.
The Wealth Management segment focuses on high-net-worth individuals, families, business owners, executives, and established privately-held businesses, offering trust services, investment management, custody, philanthropic services, financial consulting, and private banking. Wealth Management maintains one of the largest advisory service networks in the United States with $1.3 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $507.2 billion in assets under management. The company also operates a Global Family Office division providing customized solutions for complex family financial needs.
Asset Management, operating across both segments, delivers investment solutions through separately managed accounts, collective funds, exchange-traded funds, and private investment funds, encompassing active and passive equity and fixed income strategies, alternative asset classes, and multi-asset solutions. Northern Trust managed $1.8 trillion in total assets as of December 31, 2025.
The company's competitive positioning rests on its trusted brand, deep expertise, tailored technology, proven client relationships, and strong balance sheet. Northern Trust emphasizes scalable, fee-based revenue generation and continues investing in talent, technology, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and operational excellence to support its growth strategy across targeted client segments and select geographies.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry (SIC)
- Banks & Brokers
- Headquarters
- CHICAGO, IL
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 73124
- SIC
- 6022
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns Northern Trust — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · Northern Trust’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Northern Trust’s bonds, as funds hold them
Funds report holding 9 issues of Northern Trust’s debt, $693.02M at market value — what funds hold, not the company’s total debt. Weighted-average coupon 4.17%, maturing 2027 to 2040.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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