Luxury Institute shows Bessemer edging out Goldman, U.S. Trust, Northern. For the second year in a row wealthy Americans say Bessemer Trust has the best reputation among wealth-management firms, with Goldman Sachs, U.S. Trust, Northern Trust and JPMorgan Private Bank also rated highly.

"Contacts from as far as Dubai, Moscow, Thailand and El Salvador indicate that the truly wealthy want to be guided by impartial, collective peer reviews in this most critical of luxury categories," says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the