Northern Trust - Global Asset Servicing

Northern Trust is one of the world’s leading providers of asset servicing, asset management and wealth management services. Founded in 1889, we are a global leader in combining high-touch client service and expertise with innovative products and technology.

Our flexible, customised solutions for asset servicing span global custody, traditional and alternative fund administration and investment operations outsourcing as well as an array of additional services.

We operate service and product centres in 13 locations in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region offering a global approach to our clients' servicing needs and continuity of service in multiple time zones.

GLOBAL CUSTODY SERVICES

Northern Trust delivers comprehensive global custody services for an international client base including corporations, governments, public entities, financial institutions, charities, insurance companies and investment managers.

Our global custody offering includes: safekeeping, trade settlement, tax reclamation, income collection, corporate actions, proxy voting, foreign exchange and portfolio reporting. We offer settlement capabilities in developed and emerging markets through a fully integrated sub-custodian network.

Core custody services are complemented by an array of products to help clients derive maximum value from their relationship with us. These include: risk management and performance analytics, securities lending, commission recapture, transition management, trade services and trade execution analysis and fund administration.

CROSS-BORDER POOLING SOLUTIONS

Northern Trust was the first global custodian to offer a cross-border pooling solution for multinational pension fund clients. Today we offer market-leading pooling solutions for multinational pension plans and investment managers.

Our solution supports both tax-transparent and non tax-transparent vehicles domiciled in Luxembourg, Dublin and the Netherlands with multiple countries of investment and multiple countries of investor – a groundbreaking development.

As part of our pooling capabilities we provide global custody, management company services and fund administration, including fund accounting and transfer agency. Our patent pending automated solution also supports tax reclaim, securities lending and investor regulatory reporting.

FUND ADMINISTRATION SERVICES

Northern Trust supports multiple fund structures across multiple jurisdictions from our fund servicing centres in the UK, Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, Luxembourg and Chicago. We provide services to a broad spectrum of asset classes for some of the world’s leading fund-management groups and boutique managers. Extensive services for traditional funds are complemented by specialist services for alternative funds including: hedge funds and fund of hedge funds, private equity, real estate funds and infrastructure funds.

Our core fund administration services include fund establishment, fund accounting, transfer agency/investor services and corporate secretarial in addition to our asset specific services for alternative classes. Our alternative fund services are delivered by dedicated teams specialising in these investments.

INVESTMENT OPERATIONS OUTSOURCING

Northern Trust’s investment operations outsourcing solutions cover every aspect of post-trade execution support including: a fully integrated suite of full back-office processing activities, automated trade matching, a collateral management solution and independent valuations for over-the-counter derivatives, performance measurement data and daily attribution services and a web-based post-trade compliance checking and regulatory reporting tool.

WEB-BASED CLIENT INFORMATION

Our leading web-based client information system, Northern Trust Passport® - available to our custody and fund administration clients - provides real-time access to portfolio information. The secure online portal allows clients to view a range of customised account-specific information including latest NAVs, portfolio holdings, transactions, shareholder and custody data.