Fund Administration Services

AOS is proficient in the administration of domestic and offshore collective investment schemes, retail exchange traded products, structured products, wrap funds, life and employee benefit portfolios, hedge and private equity funds.

  • Transfer Agency Services

    • Collective Investment Scheme [CIS] administration
    • Exchange Traded Fund [ETF] administration
    • Mutual fund (including protected cell company) administration
    • Wrap fund administration
    • Hedge fund administration
    • Structured products administration
    • Retail pension benefit administration
    • Contact centre services
    • Client record keeping
    • Bank account reconciliation
    • Third party and fund payment services
    • Income distributions
    • Trade settlements
    • Fund distributions
    • Debit order collections
    • Commission calculation and payments
    • FICA / KYC
    • Fund reporting and client communications
  • Fund Accounting & Pricing Services

    • Calculation of the net asset value and fund price (unitisation)
    • Calculation of fund income and expense accruals
    • Preparation of monthly and annual financial statements
    • Maintenance of the fund’s financial books and records
    • Payment of the funds expenses
    • Calculation and payment of dividends and distributions
    • Corporate actions
    • Settlements via custodian banks
    • Fund valuations
    • Regulation 28 reporting
  • Offshore Fund Administration Services

    AOS is highly experienced in the creation and administration of offshore mutual funds. The following services are provided in conjunction with AOS’s strategic offshore business partners:

    • Global custody services
    • Compliance services
    • Company secretarial services
    • Transfer agency services
    • Fund accounting & pricing services
    • Fund structuring and listing
    • Trustee services
    • Project management

PARTNER SERVICES

AOS, in conjunction with its partners, can provide investment managers with a comprehensive and professional set of outsourced fund administration solutions via our Guernsey registered principal management company. Sub cells in AOS’s protected cell company [PCC] may be rented by investment managers wishing to establish their own offshore investment funds without having to invest in onerous requirements such as substantial time, human expertise, and the prohibitive capital requirements needed to establish and operate an offshore investment fund. The rented cell may invest into other CIS’s, direct equity, or any other agreed and approved instruments as stipulated in the Supplemental and Scheme Particulars.