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Custody
Protecting your assets, safeguarding your interests
Safe custody of assets is vital, whether you’re a global or domestic investment manager, an established lender or an innovative boutique, safe custody of assets is vital.
An independent custodian can save you money and generate value for your investors
As custodian, Perpetual Corporate Trust acts as your agent. Our role is to hold, safeguard and administer assets including cash, property, mortgages, private equity, infrastructure and debt securities. These assets are held and managed in accordance with a custody agreement and any regulatory obligations.
As custodian, we’re also obliged to act on properly authorised instructions.
The right custody partner can help you:
Secure assets and documentation
Outsource administration
Reduce regulatory costs
Safekeep assets
Secure assets and documentation
Secure assets and documentation efficiently and help you manage all reporting, regulatory and audit requirements
Outsource administration
By outsourcing the administrative burden of custody – both physical and digital - to an expert custody officer, thus saving the costs of physical infrastructure and data management
Reduce regulatory costs
Reduce or eliminate the regulatory costs by acting as a licensed custodian on your behalf
Safekeep assets
Safekeep assets and provide a turn-key solution for your business
Client case studies
Agile & nimble: A partnership that helps deliver service outcomes for investors
Qualitas is Australia’s leading real estate financier and investment manager, established in 2008, with committed funds under management of approximately AU$2 billion.
We speak to Kathleen Yeung, Chief Financial Officer of Qualitas, about choosing a service provider who not only understands what they do, but are also able to help them deliver on service outcomes for their clients.
Long-term success starts with strong relationships
New Forests is a real assets manager specialising in sustainable investment strategies in forestry, land management, and conservation. New Forests has 780,000 hectares and over AUD $9 billion under management. We talked to Chief Financial Officer Gavin Le Roux about the growth of their business and the groups long-term prospects.
Services provided: Wholesale Trustee, Real Assets Custody
Building investor confidence - Scape Australia and Perpetual
Scape Australia was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in London. Scape specialises in developing world-class, purpose-built student accommodation. With student accommodation premises established in London, Surrey, Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne, Scape has a strong pipeline of further developments.
In this video Tim Peel, Chief Financial Officer talks about Scape's growth and why they’ve partnered with Perpetual Corporate Trust.
Services provided: Wholesale Trustee, Real Assets Custody
Agile & nimble: A partnership that helps deliver service outcomes for investors
Long-term success starts with strong relationships
Building investor confidence - Scape Australia and Perpetual
Why work with us?
Scale and strength
Experience and expertise
Fast turnaround
Flexibility
Scale and strength
Perpetual is an ASX listed company with a 135-year history as a trustee company. Perpetual Corporate Trust has more than $1 trillion in assets under administration (as at July 2022).
Experience and expertise
Our dedicated client service professionals are highly experienced in delivering successful outcomes on complex transactions and have in-depth knowledge and insight on current and anticipated regulatory requirements.
Fast turnaround
Our dedicated on-boarding team ensures speed-to-market for smooth fund launch or responding to urgent requests for document management.
Flexibility
We have a flexible and commercial approach for real assets and document safekeeping.
- We are a market leader in the real asset custody space and currently oversee approximately $240bn.
- We manage ongoing liaison with clients’ banks, maintaining over 4,568 trust bank accounts and processing around 2,000,000 payments processed annually.
- We are one of the largest document custody providers to the country’s major finance institutions.
- Our state of the art records management system allows us to be flexible in the way we receive, verify and store documentation.
- We safeguard more than 1 million security packets either electronically or via secure vault facilities.
- We verify documentation accuracy and completeness for approximately 25,000 loans per month.
Access our Client Document Custody Portal
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