Custody Services

Our suite of master custody services includes comprehensive, in-depth accounting and reporting and cash management services. We are dedicated to providing you with a high level of personal attention and the systems support you need to effectively manage your investment portfolio.

Single Point of Contact for More Personalized Service

Fiduciary Trust emphasizes the importance of building long-term client relationships. Our relationship professionals have an average tenure of over 17 years, providing a high degree of expertise and consistency of service to our clients.

As your master custodian, we become the central recipient of all your investment information. We interact with multiple financial intermediaries, investment advisors, securities depositories, brokers and other agents to provide a consolidated, easy-to-understand view of your assets that is personalized to meet your needs.

Worldwide Security Settlement and Custody

Offering far-reaching securities settlement capabilities, Fiduciary Trust uses a network of global sub-custodians to support the cross-border investment needs of our clients. Our services include settling and processing securities and foreign exchange transactions, providing multi-currency reporting, and value clients investment portfolios in U.S. or the local countrys currency in more than 80 countries throughout the world.

Electronic Portfolio Monitoring

Fiduciary Trust provides portfolio information, including transaction activity and security holdings, through an electronic exchange of data. These interfaces are designed to simplify reconciliation and monitoring of investment activity.

Online Account Access

As a Fiduciary Trust client, youll benefit from online access to comprehensive portfolio information related to holdings, market valuation and transaction activity. You can monitor daily investment activity, cash positions, and industry or asset class allocations. Quick access to this information simplifies the reconciliation of portfolio changes and can provide a greater degree of control in monitoring your investment portfolios.

Information Gathering to Help You Make Informed Decisions

Fiduciary Trusts multi-currency accounting system maintains the necessary records to collect and report on any dividends or interest payments earned from assets held by us in the portfolio. Relying on multiple information sources, Fiduciary Trust tracks and provides notification on all corporate actions affecting client portfoliossuch as stock splits, mergers, tender offers, proxies, and tax-related reportinggiving clients the data they need to make informed decisions.

Customized Performance Measurement and Analysis

Our comprehensive account statements and reports provide you and your advisors with a transparent view of performance. They show results of each of the managers associated with your accounts, comparing their performance with industry-accepted indices or internal benchmarks. We can measure the performance of portfolios for single or multiple accounts, in a separate or consolidated form. Detailed reporting allows comparisons between different equity and fixed income investment managers or between specific accounts and the portfolio as a whole.

Categorized Tax Reporting

Our year-end tax reports provide a comprehensive view of your annual portfolio activity. Data is presented by major tax categories, such as long- and short-term capital gains and losses, qualified and non-qualified dividends, and interest income by source.

Portfolio Unitization Capabilities

Unitization accounting and reporting allows clients to pool assets from multiple accounts and create investment pools, based on asset class or investment style. Fiduciary Trusts system offers a flexible and comprehensive reporting capability by unit holder, investment pool and investment manager.

Active Cash Management

Fiduciary Trust provides daily cash management services for all cash held in client accounts. For these investments, Fiduciary Trust offers a short term investment program covering the broad spectrum of money market and tax exempt funds to invest cash balances. As an added option, Fiduciary Trust offers an interest-on-balance program to ensure that the entire cash position is fully invested.