Fund administration and distribution

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What is fund administration?

Fund administration (or fund service) supports asset managers whose primary role is to decide on which asset to buy or sell in a portfolio. Fund investors expect clear and specific information about their holdings, such as performance and current net value of their investment (Net Asset Value, or NAV).

What are the roles of a fund administrator?

NAV valuation: the asset manager may delegate this calculation to a fund administrator who will sum up the value of all assets in the fund and divide it by the number of units, resulting in the value per unit.

Accounting: each operation made by the asset manager will generate accounting entries. The asset manager can delegate the accounting of the fund to a fund administrator.

Reporting: since the fund is a legal structure, a number of reports need to be drawn up. Some managers delegate these administrative tasks to fund administrators who prepare these reports on behalf of asset managers, including:

tax reporting;
regulatory reporting;
ESG reporting;
financial reporting;
risk reporting.

Distribution: the fund distribution service enables asset management clients to reach new investors on a global scale. In this context, the fund distribution service supports managers with the pre-marketing process, registration, maintenance, and deregistration of funds/sub-funds in target markets. It also coordinates with local representatives and regulators, manages local representative requirements, and can additionally provide aTransfer Agentservice.