Degroof Petercam Asset Services

Your independent partner offering excellence through a unique one-stop-shop model

Degroof Petercam Asset Services

Degroof Petercam Asset Services is a one-stop-shop asset servicing provider based in Luxembourg with more than 30 years of experience in the administration of Undertakings for Collective Investment.
You can rely on our expertise in asset services allowing you to focus on your core activities, meaning fund raising and asset allocation.

Who we are

Since more than 30 years, the Degroof Petercam Group relies on the expertise of Degroof Petercam Asset Services to provide and develop a complete range of services more commonly known as Asset Services.

Degroof Petercam is a reference financial institution with a history dating back to 1871. As an independent group owned by family shareholders with a long-term commitment, we serve private and institutional investors.

Our clients benefit from a unique combination of services in Private Banking, Institutional Asset Management, Investment Banking (Corporate Finance and Global Markets) and Asset Services.

The Degroof Petercam Group clients’ assets (under management, under administration and in custody) amounts to €71 bn (31.12.2022).

Degroof Petercam Asset Services is a Luxembourg regulated Super ManCo, supervised by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier and authorized to provide collective management services as well as ancillary services to Luxembourg UCITS, UCIs (Part II, SIFs, RAIFs) as well as Degroof Petercam Asset Services white label structures.

We also have the appropriate passport to serve funds under Belgian law of the UCITS and AIF type (including institutional SICAVs).

Our Expertise

Degroof Petercam Asset Services proposes an integrated and modular service offer depending on the profile and needs of our clients.

We have a complete range of services covering the entire value chain of investment fund services:

  • Structuring / Legal Services
  • Domiciliation and Corporate Secretary
  • Central Administration
  • Registration, Supervision of the distribution network
  • UCITS & AIFM Management Company: Risk Management and Governance
  • Advisory model
  • Specific regulatory reporting: AIFM reporting, PRIIPs EPT-KID, European MiFID Template (EMT), European ESG Template (EET), etc.

In addition to this complete range of services, we also offer in collaboration with Banque Degroof Petercam Luxembourg:

  • Depositary oversight
  • Custody
  • Trading room services
  • My Degroof Petercam Institutionnel (MyDPi)– Online reporting tool: the new future-proof digital reporting tool (and transactional by the end of 2023). Easy ONLINE access to standard reports (holdings, cash and securities transactions) that can be generated directly on your SFTP
  • Custody Services dedicated to External Asset Managers and Institutional Investors (Tiers Gérance)

As a complement to this integrated approach, our services are available in an unbundled way, namely:

  • Management Company services and Risk Management for external Management Companies including Central Administration with Custody & Depositary Services
  • Central Administration and Custody & Depositary Services only

Our Services

Value added services

Advisory Model

Partner with our clients on their investment management

  • Investment Management services (can be delegated to third party Invetsment Managers)
  • Review and approval of investment universe in specific cases (white-lists approval)
  • Validation of an investment model proposed by an adviser

Advantages

  • Financial advisors can rely on the expertise of DPAS Investment Management services
  • Support the transition of a financial adviser to a licensed Investment Manager

White Label Solutions

Renting a sub-fund in one of our “White label structures”: a flexible solution for smaller-scale assets

3 UCITS SICAV

  • Ulysses SICAV
  • Hector SICAV
  • Equus SICAV

1 newly created RAIF SICAV

Advantages

  • Economy of scale
  • Provision of Administrators including one independent
  • Independency and segregation of the sub-funds
  • Time to market

Sustainable Finance

Partner with our clients on their sustainable approach

Since 2001, Managers can rely on the experience and expertise of our teams who integrate the latest standards and technical norms (linked to the implementation of the European taxonomy or the SFDR regulation).

RDT-DBI Expertise

Partner with our clients for their Belgian clients’ base

The use of investment vehicles under Belgian law, funds or SICAVs, known as RDT (Regime of Definitively Taxed income) appears to be a valuable alternative to direct line investments and allows companies to benefit from the advantage of capital gains exemption. We have developed a unique expertise around these vehicles under Belgian law, with the aim of guaranteeing our clients to benefit from the tax exemption that they allow.

  • Key driver offering for Belgian clients
  • Automated RDT conditions assessment and monitoring
  • Review of fiscal rules and new tools to improve efficiency
  • Ad-hoc portfolio assessment for third-party managers

Global Market Services Trading and Execution

Partner with our clients for trading, execution, and research. From execution till reporting.

Value-added services for Independent Wealth Managers, Family Offices, Insurance Companies, Institutional and Corporate Investors.

  • Forex: OTC FX Products (Spot, Forward, Non-Deliverable Forward, Option, Non-Deliverable Option & FX Swap)
  • Listed Derivatives: Futures & Options
  • Bonds: Bullet, Callable, Perpetual, FRN, Subordinated
  • Equities: Voice Desk dedicated to execution
  • Dedicated OTC Equities Derivatives
  • Interest Rates Derivatives: IRS & ND IRS
  • Research: Coverage of 150 Benelux Companies

Dedicated Digital Platform

New Digital Platform

  • New digital reporting (+ transactional tool planned end of 2023)
  • State-of-the-art online user interface for custodian services
  • Dedicated to our Asset Services third-party clients

Reporting

  • Easy online access to standard reports (holdings, cash, and securities transactions) that can be generated directly on your SFTP
  • Possibility to consolidate your accounts and have a complete overview on your assets

Custody Services dedicated to external Asset Managers and Institutional Investors (Tiers Gérance)

Your trusted partner for safekeeping of assets, order execution, reporting and Lombard lending

Value-added services for Independent Wealth Managers, Family Offices, Insurance Companies, Institutional and Corporate Investors.

  • 2 booking centers: Belgium and Luxembourg
  • Supporting various set-ups such as discretionary management, advisory management, reception and transmission of orders, execution only
  • Multi-asset direct market access
  • Multi-currency cash management

Our Governance

Degroof Petercam Asset Services

Sylvie Huret

CEO of Degroof Pertercam Asset Services

Sandra Reiser

Head of Production
Member of the Management Board

Frank Van Eylen

Head of Control
Member of the Management Board

Banque Degroof Petercam Luxembourg

Gautier Bataille

CEO of Banque Degroof Petercam Luxembourg

Frédéric Steichen

Head of Depositary Bank

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