A Pillar of Loyalty - Care - Service ℠

We are a regulated fiduciary obligated to put your unique best interests first. We honor and value the individuality and dignity of each person we serve and strive to understand. We are responsive and here for you.​

ATC is an advisor-friendly Trust Company that offers our clients personalized planning, regulatory protection, meaningful relationship management, high-level tax planning, and real privacy.

We use individualized strategies and diversified portfolios for the long-term goals of each trust. ATC does not use model portfolios.

We are who we say we are. We do what we say we will do.

We welcome the opportunity to work together with you.

At Altruist Trust Co. & Fiduciary Services, Inc., our mission is accurately stated and methodically practiced

Our Mandate: Obey and strictly comply with all laws and regulations that apply to us.

Our Responsibility: We interpret and carry out the specific instructions written in the trust document impartially, with a selfless concern for the well-being of others, and without conflict of interest.

Our Purpose: Enrich the lives of our clients and each other.

Our Culture: Always do the right thing with the courage of a lion. Challenge situations believed to be wrong. Treat people right.

Our Focus: Deliver individual loyalty, individual care, and individual service with kindness, generosity, and love in dealing with our clients and each other.

Our Core: We care!

-Our We-Care™ Values-

Our Integrity: We are who we say we are and hold true to our mission statement and act in accordance with our mandated duties as fiduciary and steward.

Our Standards: Ethical and moral-based standards of behavior are our cornerstone.

Our Duty: As a regulated fiduciary, we are obligated to put your unique best interests first, no matter what, and we do so without regard to our own beliefs or position and without conflict of interest.

Our Accountability: We fully and accurately account for all trust or fiduciary activity under our duties as fiduciaries and in compliance with relevant rules, regulations, and laws.

Our Concern: We are conscientious, compassionate, and have genuine and heartfelt concern for the beneficiaries, families, businesses, and all other people or entities where we serve as corporate trustee and fiduciary.

Our Respect: As stewards, we honor and value the individuality and dignity of each person we serve and strive to understand. We cultivate collaborative and cooperative relationships while complying with laws, regulations, and trust document mandates.

Our Social Responsibility: We provide responsible, accountable, and regulatory-compliant stewardship of the matters and resources entrusted to us and administered for the benefit of the beneficiaries, families, businesses, and all other people or entities we serve as corporate trustee and fiduciary.

Our Excellence: We strive to do the best that can be done, whatever our role or responsibility.

I am writing today to recommend Mr. Robert A. Zielke, J.D., AIF®. In my capacity as his long-term professional associate in multiple arenas, I have had extensive opportunity to observe and verify the utmost competence and quality of his work, his impeccable character, his trustworthiness, his professionalism, his reliability and fulfillment of commitments, and his genuine care of and loyalty to those he serves.

I served two terms as the Washington State Insurance Commissioner (1993-2001). I ran this large professional state agency with a $30 million annual budget and approximately 200 professional staff. Additionally, I am an Attorney at Law and a Professor of Healthcare Law at Loyola University of Chicago School of Law Beazley Health Institute. The Beazley Health Institute’s online program is ranked third in the U.S. Thus, I have known and dealt with a multitude of professionals and people from all walks of life. Mr. Zielke has consistently stood out, both as being at the top of his professional fields, and as a person of the highest character and trustworthiness. In fact, I elected to join him and The Zielke Law Firm, P.S.¹ when I entered private practice after my career as Insurance Commissioner and other public service. That is clearly the highest recommendation that I can provide.

I strongly recommend Mr. Robert A. Zielke, J.D., AIF® both as a person and in his professional practice as a Financial Steward, Professional Trustee, Fiduciary, and Attorney at Law². Having worked closely and directly with Mr. Zielke for over a decade, and having known him for over 25 years, Mr. Zielke maintains the highest standards of integrity, trustworthiness, honesty, and ethics. He has professionalism, skill, and ability, yet is friendly, kind, and approachable. Mr. Zielke cares about each individual client and beneficiary he serves, and truly understands his fiduciary role to put each person’s unique interests at the top of the list – consistently above his own interests. He can be counted upon to do the right thing in his professional decision-making.

Mr. Zielke brings to each client and beneficiary his extensive and unique background as a Financial Steward, Professional Trustee, Attorney at Law², and as a former healthcare provider, having formerly been a practicing Anesthetist (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist – CRNA) and a Registered Nurse. It is amazing that he brings all of this depth to each client and each beneficiary that he serves. I always find Mr. Zielke to be the professional person that I want and trust to be on my side, and on my team, dealing with my specific goals and challenges.

The Honorable Deborah Senn, J.D. (b. 1949 - d. 2022)
  -Attorney at Law
  -Insurance Commissioner – Washington State (1993-2001)
  -Of Counsel, The Zielke Law Firm, P.S.¹ (2009-2022)
  -Professor of Healthcare Law at the University of Chicago School of Law Beazley Health Institute​

1. The Zielke Law Firm, P.S. was legally converted to a Washington State-Chartered trust company, Altruist Trust Co. & Fiduciary Services, Inc., on June 1, 2022.
2. Mr. Zielke was an active member of the Washington Bar for 31 years. Effective December 13, 2022, he voluntarily went on inactive status as he was no longer practicing law and is devoting his time to trust administration services at Altruist Trust Co. & Fiduciary Services, Inc.

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