FundAssist offers services specifically suited to the needs of organisations that distribute funds, such as insurance companies, retail banks, private banks, investment advisors or distribution platforms.

Our extensive experience across the full spectrum of asset classes, fund products (both UCITS and non-UCITS) and fund domiciles allows us to integrate the products from multiple suppliers into a coherent and easily maintained set of customised products for your marketplace.

We can assist with the packaging and structuring/presenting of fund products for distribution in varying jurisdictions, taking advantage of the specific legal and tax structures available including insurance and pension wrappers, savings plans and structured products.

Our services are relevant to open architecture distribution of third party funds, own branding of products from fund partners as well as combining third party funds with in-house products. Our services are tailored to your specific circumstances and business model.

We can contribute to your success in a number of ways:

• Producing and maintaining fact sheets and product literature can be a costly and time-consuming process detracting from your selling activities. Our Fact Sheet Preparation Service alleviates the effort and time you spend and ensures high quality, up to date information is collated and available to you and your clients. We also help you to communicate efficiently with your clients across electronic and conventional print media.
• Correspondence with your clients, including the production of contract notes and statements, can be branded and personalised with messages on your behalf. A consolidated statement of holdings can show transaction and balance information from all of your product providers and their administration agents.
• Administering distribution agreements with a number of fund providers can be tedious and time consuming but essential to the financial wellbeing of your business. Our expertise and technological solutions allow you to outsource this task with complete confidence.
• Offering a suite of products to your clients requires constant liaison with your service providers to stay abreast of market and operational updates constantly being issued. FundAssist offers a product management solution that assists in managing this task.

The ongoing changes to fund and financial product regulation have to be constantly monitored and compliance procedures updated. FundAssist works in partnership with you to coordinate and manage these issues. For example, the introduction of UCITS IV is significant for fund distribution organisations, even if their end product is not directly subject to the Directive. A new requirement is the preparation of a Key Investor Information Document (KIID). This will be widely adopted in mid 2011. A further EU initiative, called Packaged Retail Investment Products (PRIP) is likely to introduce similar requirements for non-UCITS retail products in 2012 / 2013. FundAssist has extensive experience with the detailed implementation of the KIID and can help you with the transition to the new requirements.

UCITS IV now also allows master-feeder structures and this can help simplify product ranges for many organisations. A domestic feeder fund can be used with a master fund domiciled in another jurisdiction, thus reducing overlaps in product ranges. Alternatively, domestic funds can be converted into master funds and sold into cross-border markets through domestic feeder funds or a multi-country feeder fund domiciled in another jurisdiction.  FundAssist can help you with these initiatives.