Registered Investment Advisors
Overview
In today’s crowded high-net-worth market, investment advisors need a clear competitive advantage — superior or unique investment strategies, unparalleled client service and/or value-added client reporting. You also need more time to spend with clients and leading-edge technology to differentiate your product offering.
As a leading provider of investment services, State Street can help you grow your business in the direction you choose. Whether you’re simply looking for a custodian to help you go global, handle more multicurrency transactions or expand into the alternatives space — or if you are looking for a more comprehensive investment operations outsourcing partner with front to back office technology, State Street is the answer. Regardless of the exact solution needed, our focus on your operations, technology platform and custody leaves you free to concentrate on your clients.
Our Approach to Client Service
Our professional teams are organized around, and focused on, registered investment advisors — and are accountable to you. We don’t just say that — we measure it and commit to it. Collaboratively, we develop service level agreements, perform quantitative assessments through our client report cards and administer qualitative surveys to ensure our customer service always meets your expectations.
We pride ourselves in taking a very consultative approach with our clients, whether to develop custom reporting solutions or share best practices learned at a conference or workshop we attended. Through client events and communications, we work with you to help us determine the direction of our IT investment and other initiatives. We also meet regularly with your management and operations staff, so we can be proactive about any needs or strategic shifts you may have and also facilitate your access to the value-added services we offer.
How You Benefit from a State Street Solution
When you partner with us, you can be confident that you’re getting a safe, stable platform upon which to build your business. We will work with you to deliver the solution that best meets your needs today, and help you accomplish your strategic goals for tomorrow.
As a full-service global custodian, we:
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Service complex assets and take trade files via many methods, including SWIFT, file, DTC confirm and ACATS
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Segregate your clients’ assets from State Street’s proprietary assets, which means that they are safe from State Street’s creditors
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Don’t compete for asset management
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Don’t require deal flow through our brokerage, so there are no trade-away fees
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Can help reduce audit and compliance complications escalated by the new Custody Rule, either by acting as your third-party accounting and billing agent or by providing you with the reports you need to satisfy your regulators.
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As an investment operations outsourcing provider, we are a strategic, integrated component of your day-to-day business. After working closely with you to identify your core requirements, we can then design a solution that enables you to:
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Leverage the latest, market tested portfolio and order management technology in a fully hosted environment
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Maintain your customized assets classifications while adapting the most cost-effective manner for investment operations
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Reconcile your assets daily, regardless of custodian
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Maintain flexibility and control through a dedicated environment
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Leverage our consultative team of investment servicing, custody and technology professionals to handle all middle and back-office requirements
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Re-align staff to focus on value driven core competencies such as client service, investment management and asset accumulation
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Implement new investment strategies, including global and alternative assets
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Create a variable and much more predictable operating-cost model
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Maximize your technological benefits without increasing your spend — now and in the future
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Reduce other business costs, such as business continuity and infrastructure costs
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Reduce your business risk through outsourcing operational tasks
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Enhance your clients’ Web and reporting experience
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For more information, please contact:
Peter Thurmond
Senior Vice President
+1.617.664.6676
peter.thurmond@statestreet.com