Sophisticated Capabilities for Unitized Funds

Unitization

Benefit Trust’s sophisticated capabilities support your creation and delivery of unitized fund prices. Benefit Trust records daily income and expense accruals, participant activity, corporate actions, security transactions, and receives files from multiple pricing vendors, to create a daily unitized price.

Employer Securities

With unitization, an employer security can be placed within a plan investment lineup and traded identical to a mutual fund. Benefit Trust provides the following functions:

Daily valuations and custodial functions
Liquidity management
Securities trading
Corporate action processing and expense accruals
Daily cash and security reconcilement
Transmits electronically key portfolio elements
Units outstanding
Daily price of unitized fund
Daily price of underlying asset

Fund-of-Funds

With Benefit Trust’s state-of-the-art technology, an investment advisor can create one or a series of fund-of-funds portfolios that can be used within a plan investment lineup. Benefit Trust provides the following functions:

Daily valuations and custodial functions
Corporate action processing and expense accruals
Daily cash and security reconcilement
Allocation, execution and settlement of underlying funds (same day / late day capabilities)
Rebalancing
Passive and active models
Transmits electronically key portfolio elements
Units outstanding
Daily price of unitized fund

Managed Portfolios

When situations dictate, Benefit Trust can accommodate investment advisors wish to manage plan assets with individual securities. We utilize a multi-currency accounting system that accommodates virtually any type of marketable security. Benefit Trust provides the following functions:

Daily valuations and custodial functions
Corporate action processing and expense accruals
Daily cash and security reconcilement
One or more investment manager with cash available reporting
Foreign / ADR tax reclaim filings
Online access to accounts / portfolios
Transmits electronically key portfolio elements
Units outstanding
Daily price of managed fund

Key Items

Trustee or custodial services for your unitized portfolio
Custodial or non-custodial arrangements
Daily processing of portfolio transactions
Daily, monthly or periodic valuations
Superior client service
Unitize one or hundreds of holdings in portfolio
Supports NSCC trading in an open architecture environment
No offshoring
Small organization – more nimble, personalized service, fewer bureaucratic hoops
Revenue sharing capabilities
Electronic delivery of files and reports
Contract with plan sponsor or as a back office valuation agent and custodian

Types of Assets – domestic & foreign

Common and Preferred Stock
Exchange-Traded Funds
Fixed Income
Warrants and Rights
Futures and Options
Mutual funds / collective investment trusts
Hedge funds / private equities
Swaps
Foreign exchange contracts