Service Directory
Clearing & Settlement
 42 Avenue J F Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg Luxembourg Tel: +3 52-2 43-38110 Fax: +3 52-2 43-3 80 00 |
Clearstream is the leading international settlement and custody organisation, offering a comprehensive service covering both domestic and internationally traded bonds and equities. Since July 2002, Clearstream has been fully intergrated into Deutsche Börse Group, creating the pre-eminent full-service provider for the securities industry. More than 2000 customers in over 90 countries are connected to Clearstream's global network. Vestima+ is Clearstream's automated order-routing service for the investment funds industry. It provides order issuers with a single-entry point for domestic, non-domestic and off-shore funds, and offers free choice of settlement and custody routes. Vestima+ is called the multi-domestic solution, because it recognises the differences among domestic markets, and the different needs that arise in each of them. |
 Ivan Nicora Director Investment Fund Product Management Euroclear 1 Boulevard du Roi Albert II B-1210 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 326 1211 |
Operated by Euroclear, FundSettle is Europe’s only fully integrated platform for the straight-through processing of fund transactions. Offering order-routing, settlement and custody services, FundSettle provides fund buyers with a single access point to more than 40,000 offshore and domestic funds handled by over 450 transfer agents in more than 20 countries. Euroclear is the world’s largest provider of domestic and cross-border settlement and related services for bond, equity, derivatives and fund transactions. Market owned and governed, the Euroclear group comprises Euroclear Bank, based in Brussels, as well as Euroclear Belgium, Euroclear Finland, Euroclear France, Euroclear Nederland, Euroclear Sweden, Euroclear UK & Ireland, EMXCo and Xtrakter. |
Custody & Fund Administration
 Bank of Ireland Securities Services Tel: +353 1 670 0300, |
Bank of Ireland Securities Services (BOISS) provides fund administration, custody, securities lending and outsourcing services to a wide range of offshore funds including hedge funds, from its base in Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre. Supported by Bank of Ireland’s A+ credit rating BOISS has been offering discretionary securities lending service since establishing its Global Securities Lending Programme (GSLP) in 1998 and occupies a unique position in being the only indigenous Irish institution to offer such a service. With assets under custody/administration of over US$185bn, BOISS is a leading provider of offshore fund services in Dublin. BoISS has obtained a FRAG 21/94 for the past eight consecutive years. BoISS’s web product allows clients (and fund investors) to access a range of information including details of positions/transactions and historic fund prices. BoISS also offers a comprehensive outsourcing service. |
 Capita Financial Group Tel: +44 (0) 870 607 2555 |
Capita Financial Group has over 35 years of fund administration experience and works with over 100 investment managers, providing fund administration solutions across the principal European jurisdictions including the UK and Ireland. We provide a comprehensive range of fund structures and asset classes including regulated Open Ended Funds, Closed Ended Funds, Hedge Funds (UCITS and non-UCITS), Real Estate, Private Equity and Infrastructure Funds. Our services to funds include Authorise Corporate Director, management company solutions, fund accounting and transfer agency as well as corporate secretarial and registrar services. We have adopted a best-in-class technology strategy comprising a combination of bespoke in-house and proven industry-wide systems to provide our clients/users with the best possible solutions. |
Performance Measurement & Investment Consulting
Complementa Investment-Controlling AG |
Complementa Investment-Controlling AG is the leading provider of independent consolidation, performance measurement and reporting services and one of the largest investment consultancies in Switzerland, serving institutional investors as well as high net worth individuals internationally. As a family owned business, Complementa is exclusively dedicated to its clients’ needs.
Consolidation, performance measurement and reporting - Our performance measurement and reporting system allows in-depth analysis and permanent monitoring of all our clients’ assets. Bankable and non-bankable assets are included in the reporting to create a comprehensive view on the client’s individual situation. Additionally, we provide online access to our system that enables our clients to conduct detailed analyses on their own. These services are provided directly to investors as well as to financial intermediaries and asset managers as an outsourcing platform. Investment consulting services - Besides the traditional investment consulting tasks such as ALM and manager selection, Complementa’s philosophy is to continuously monitor our clients’ financial situation and provide qualitative and quantitative risk management, helping them to efficiently reach their financial targets adhering to the principles of good governance. |
Services & Software
Princeton Financial Systems LLC |
Princeton Financial® Systems (PFS), a State Street company, is a leading provider of investment
accounting, investment compliance, data management, performance
measurement, and reporting solutions to the global investment industry.
PFS, headquartered in Princeton, NJ, has offices located throughout the
United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, and Switzerland. |
 SimCorp 10 Walbrook, London EC4N 8DQ Tel: +44 20 7651 8800 Fax: +44 20 7651 8811 Website: www.simcorp.com Email: elizabeth.gee@simcorp.com Contact: Elizabeth Gee, Sales Director, SimCorp Other offices: Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Munich, NewYork, Oslo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, and Zurich. |
Company profile: SimCorp is a leading European financial software company with approximately 900 staff and with customers worldwide. SimCorp’s product is based on a high level of financial expertise combined with advanced software technology. The company offers investment management software that provides full, seamless processing enterprise-wide, across fixed income, equities, derivatives and other asset classes.
Product overview: SimCorp Dimension is a powerful, comprehensive investment management system. It has been designed from scratch as a single, modular system to provide true seamless processing, handling all aspects of the investment management process, consistently. Data is recorded into a core database so that reporting is made easy; there is no reconciliation of data and no duplication of procedures.
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