Everyday steps to take control of your cash: budgeting, needs versus wants, emergency funds, avoiding debt traps, and knowing your status tax rights.
Rising Tide LP offers administrative trustee services to First Nations. We are an independent, impartial partner, not affiliated with any financial institution. We don't manage money, and we don't lend money. Our only business is looking after the trust.
We are the one party in a trust's structure with nothing to sell, and no one to answer to but the Nation.
Rising Tide doesn't manage the money and doesn't lend it, and we're owned by no institution. Our only job is to make sure the trust is administered exactly as the Nation intended, for as long as it lasts.
Independence is more than avoiding conflicts. It is what lets us bring a Nation the experience, the options, and the leverage that an in-house bank trustee cannot.
No institutional owner. We don't manage money and we don't lend it, and we earn nothing from the institutions that serve your trust. So when we assess a manager's performance or push on fees, we have no stake in the answer.
Our founder spent more than 30 years in the law, administration, and governance of First Nations trusts, and Stian Andersen brings 20 years partnering with institutional investors. We know how these structures succeed, and how the old model fails: when the trustee and the investment manager sit in the same institution, and no one independent is reviewing the work.
Because we're independent, we can take a trust's capital wherever it is best served and negotiate on its behalf. We can run a full competitive process among institutions, or open a turnkey path to a vetted US investment platform. Either way, we earn nothing from the choice.
Rising Tide was founded in 2025, after three decades of watching trustee services delivered through a model that could be built to better fit Indigenous interests, values, and ways of governing.
The Nation is in control at every step. We're engaged through an open process, and the institutions that manage the money compete for the mandate.
The Nation runs an open process with Chief and Council to choose its administrative trustee, on its own terms.
We're engaged as administrative trustee, accountable to the Nation and to the trust deed, not to any financial institution.
Investment managers bid for the work. We help the Nation run that process; we don't sit on either side of it.
The Trust holds the assets and the Nation holds the Trust. Every other role is a service provider appointed to it, including us, and each one selected through a competitive process run with Chief and Council.
Our role is deliberately bounded. Everything inside it protects the trust; everything outside it is someone else's job, on purpose.
Our administration is operational and ministerial. We follow the trust deed and lawful instruction from the Nation, nothing more, on purpose. Where a boundary isn't clear, ask us and we'll put the answer in writing.
A trust is meant to outlive the people who set it up.
We administer it for the members here today, and for the generations not yet born.
Our founder spent more than 30 years working on the legal, administrative, and governance requirements specific to Indigenous trusts, and was instrumental in negotiating over $4 billion in settlements for First Nations across Canada. They founded Rising Tide in 2025, after three decades of watching trustee services delivered through a model they believed could be redesigned to better align with Indigenous interests, values, traditions, and ways of governing.
Hashu is a Certified Management Accountant with 20 years as a senior finance executive, advising Canadian and international businesses across oil and gas services, manufacturing, retail, and construction. His work spans financial statement preparation under IFRS and ASPE, corporate audits, budgeting, and mergers and acquisitions, reporting to C-suites and boards throughout. At Rising Tide he owns the financial controls and reporting that trust administration rests on: the records, the reconciliations, and the audits that let a Nation check our arithmetic.
Eric holds a Bachelor of Management and Organizational Studies from Western University and is currently a CFA candidate. He came to this work through an internship at Maurice Law, where he saw the legal and governance machinery behind Indigenous settlements up close, and he also works with Turning Stone Group, a First Nations-focused investment firm. At Rising Tide he supports strategy and research, and helps prepare the materials Nations use to weigh their options.
Stian has spent 20 years in the investment and financial industry, primarily partnering with institutional investors (First Nations, endowments and foundations, insurers, pension plans, and corporations) to meet their investment objectives while managing risk, liquidity, and income requirements. He spent most of the last two decades at insurance-based asset management firms, and joined Rising Tide from one of the largest investment consultants in the world. Stian holds a Master of Arts in International Business and has held the Chartered Investment Manager designation since 2011.
Administrative support team Day-to-day trust administration (records, payments, member enquiries) is handled by our administrative support team, working directly under the people above.
We run free sessions with Nations directly: budgeting, saving, and investing, written for members rather than finance people. Read the summaries, keep the decks, or ask us to come speak in person.
Everyday steps to take control of your cash: budgeting, needs versus wants, emergency funds, avoiding debt traps, and knowing your status tax rights.
How money grows: compound interest, the common investment options, diversification, registered accounts like TFSAs and RRSPs, and spotting things that are too good to be true.
There's more on the full Education Series page, including help setting up a low-cost investment account, and a form to request a free one-hour session. Visit the Education Series →
Whether your Nation is weighing a settlement, reviewing an existing trust, or simply wants a plain explanation of how any of this works, we're glad to have the conversation. There's no obligation and nothing to sign.
Or email us directly at info@risingtidelp.com.