IQ-EQ Purchases Concord Trust Co. IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has signed terms to acquire Concord Trust Company, an independent U.S. based trust company, headquartered in South Dakota and with offices in South Dakota and New Hampshire. This strategic transaction, the first for IQ-EQ in the U.S. private wealth space. It follows closely on from IQ-EQ’s successful acquisitions of U.S. based Constellation Advisers LLC (January 2021) and Blue River Partners LLC (June 2020). On transaction completion Mark Fordyce will assume overall responsibility for the group’s expanded U.S. operations. Concord’s management team of Christopher Martin and