The campaign, which officially launched Sunday May 2 and will run through December, replaces “wealth management” with “worth management,” a relatively subtle semantic switch that U.S. Trust hopes will convince the very wealthy that it isn’t just after their money; it wants to be an integral part of their life, wealth and estate plans.
Follow-up ads will expand on the tagline with “What is knowing your best interest is ours as well worth?”, “What is having intellectual capital committed to protecting yours worth?” and “What Is Worth? Passing down your values as well as your assets”—all three of which speak to U.S. Trust’s core strengths as a fiduciary and an investment manager, said Jean Fitzgerald, managing director and head of U.S. Trust’s marketing.
“We spent a lot of time speaking to very wealthy clients about what’s important to them and what’s important about what we do,” she says. “We now have some very direct messages that speak specifically to this segment.”
The “What Is Worth?” ad will run in the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Barron’s, Worth Magazine, FT Wealth and Architectural Digest, as well as online through the search engines and in the trade press targeting centers of influence.
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