01 / THE INSTITUTION
Built to endure. Positioned for what comes next.
RootTrust AG is a Swiss family institution for the ownership and stewardship of capital across generations. Its mandate is to hold and compound the family’s own capital, concentrated where the automation economy is being built, from the United States outward. It is the owner and steward of that capital, held distinct from the businesses it holds.
Zürich, Switzerland
02 / OUR CONVICTION
The next industrial era is being built.
Capital and control are concentrating in the systems that automate work. The evidence is in the installed base, in where private capital flows, and in the scale of what the largest allocators are committing.
Industrial robots operating in factories worldwide, roughly double the number of a decade ago.
Private capital invested in artificial intelligence in the United States in 2024, more than twelve times the total committed in China.
Estimated addition to global output from generative AI over a decade, with productivity growth lifted by about 1.5 points.
Room to build: US robot density against the global leader
Robots per 10,000 manufacturing workers, 2023. IFR, World Robotics 2024
03 / OWNERSHIP PHILOSOPHY
Capital. Infrastructure. Operating companies.
RootTrust intends to own the automation economy vertically, not from a distance. The institution holds capital. Through it, the family intends to build and hold automation infrastructure and the operating companies that run on it. Owner, strategy, and operating businesses are kept distinct by design.
The direction of this kind of capital is already clear.
One in two family offices intend to deepen direct, operating ownership rather than passive allocation.
04 / STEWARDSHIP
Measured in generations.
Disciplined judgment
We move deliberately, and only with conviction. Patience is a position.
Responsible stewardship
Capital is held in trust for those who come after. We protect before we grow.
Generational continuity
Decisions are measured in decades. We build what is meant to endure.
Held well, capital compounds for generations.