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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

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

Looking for more information?

If you’re looking for help to launch or manage an unregistered investment scheme or holding structure, Perpetual’s experts can help you do it quickly, efficiently and effectively. Complete the form and we'll be in touch.