TRUST AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT

BankTrust's trained professionals offer a full array of Trust and Wealth Management Services and invaluable advice and assistance to:

  • Individuals
  • Businesses
  • Charitable Entities and Foundations

For over 100 years, we have provided unmatched expertise and experience in asset management to help individuals with financial, estate, and retirement planning.

In the field of Personal Trust, our ultimate goal is to help you and your family sort through a myriad of options to establish trusts or managed agency accounts that meet your specific needs.

We can also help you with Estate Planning and Administration by working with you, your attorney, and your accountant to create the best plan for you and your family.

Simply put - we are here to help you and your family.

Finally, our Retirement Services professionals can help you to offer retirement benefits for your employees. We will manage the required information and investment options to keep your staff up to date in an ever-changing regulatory and investment environment.

Contact Us

For answers to your questions or additional information, please contact a Trust and Wealth Management professional at the location nearest you:

• Personal Trust & Estate Planning
  Mobile (251) 438-6217
  Brewton (251) 809-2241
  Selma (334) 418-8217

• Retirement Services
  Mobile (251) 431-7830
  Brewton (251) 809-2522
  Selma (334) 418-8217

Personal Trust Services

Your financial and long term estate planning goals are specific and need a customized approach. Our professionals make recommendations based upon a careful analysis of your financial situation. We can assist you with:

  • Living or revocable trusts
  • Testamentary trusts
  • Charitable trusts
  • Life insurance trusts
  • Managed agency and custody accounts

We also provide the following Trust Administration and Investment services:

  • Custody and management of assets
  • Detailed reporting of account activity
  • Distribution of funds as directed
  • Preparation and distribution of tax information
  • Investment portfolio management support through regular account reviews
  • Daily valuation of assets, investment trade execution, and investment performance monitoring

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Estate Administration

The administration of an estate is complex and time consuming. The Executor or Personal Representative must make critical decisions during an emotional period for the family. One of our seasoned Trust Administrators will work with your family, attorney and other specialists to make important decisions related to taxes and assets. BankTrust provides the following services:

  • Asset appraisals
  • Collection of estate income and payment of estate debts
  • Secure custody of assets throughout the estate administration process
  • Filing of necessary court information and estate tax returns
  • Detailed transaction accounting to the beneficiaries

The Executor's primary role is to insure that your wishes, as expressed in your Last Will and Testament, are executed. Many decisions, both personal and financial, will be made during this period.

BankTrust will serve as a professional, objective third party to provide the expertise needed to make these decisions.

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Retirement Services

Quality benefit packages for your employees are of critical importance.

BankTrust offers a full range of employee benefit retirement plans for businesses, both large and small. With seasoned Trust Administrators and state of the art technology, we are your best option.

Ever-changing regulatory requirements and tax laws require frequent updating of retirement plans to maintain compliance. Our trained professionals will assist you in the planning and administration of:

  • IRA rollovers
  • 401(k) salary deferral plans
  • Defined benefit pension plans
  • Profit Sharing plans
  • Money purchase pension plans
  • Non-qualified plans

In addition, BankTrust offers:

  • Plan design, administration and record-keeping services
  • Enrollment and participant educational services
  • Safekeeping of plan assets and investment services when required
  • Quarterly and annual plan level and certified Statements
  • Annual plan testing and IRS requirement reporting
  • Benefit calculations and loan administration

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Online Access

BankTrust offers our clients internet access to retrieve statements, review transactions and view current market values for their accounts. For accounts with complex investment strategies, we offer third-party investment performance monitoring.

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  • NOT A DEPOSIT
  • NOT FDIC-INSURED
  • NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY
  • NOT GUARANTEED BY THE BANK
  • MAY GO DOWN IN VALUE