AES can help with all your business segments and ensure their integration into a more efficient, competitive business model to meet your specific needs. These include:
Distribution Management
As the investment management and offshore insurance industry expands and contracts, it’s becoming harder than ever to compete. As an experienced and professional partner that understands cross border business AES can:
- Provide a compliant spring board on which to build your business with access to in excess of 3,600 international distributors
- Help you identify areas of opportunity and prevent costly mistakes
- Enable you to package your investment expertise with a range of quality fund and investment services
- Provide a scalable, transparent operating environment
- Gives you insight across all aspects of your business for risk management support and enhanced decision-making
This means our partners benefit from:
- Increased Revenue
- Reduced Risk
- Increased efficiency
Asset Servicing
Experience, innovation and a passion for excellence uniquely combine to ensure the client remains at the centre of everything we do.
AES can help you meet your goals through our full range of asset management and servicing solutions:
- Master Agency
- Custody And Safekeeping
- Fund Services
- Investment Risk and Analytical Services
- Investment Operations Outsourcing
- Cross-Border Pooling
- Treasury Services
- Execution and Settlement
- Corporate Banking Solutions
Virtual Cash Accounts
Technological development means the days of opening large numbers of cash accounts with third party banks are over. Gone are the paper-based applications shuttling backwards and forwards between service providers and banks.
Our virtual accounts solution delivers fully straight through processing of all payable and receivable instructions with the worlds largest and most secure banks to service providers and their underlying clients. This solution can revolutionise the way trustees, pension providers, insurance companies, wealth managers and banks operate and vastly reduce costs, timeframes and errors.
Compliance
Directly Authorised and Regulated by the UK FSA, AES UK is MIFID compliant and has cross border approval for both investment and insurance business in every EEA State. Group companies cover the Middle East, Asia and the Americas with local branch establishments in countries such as Italy, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Holland and Poland.
AES can hold and control client money and assets directly – therefore delivering a much wider array of value added services. We have extensive expertise in regulatory systems and controls which means that our partners benefit from:
- Ability to operate in multiple jurisdictions
- Ability to demonstrate clear regulatory benefits to all clients
- Clear competitive advantage over the vast majority of the competition
- Ability to reduce existing regulatory costs and increase potential market
Flexible Technology
AES recognise that robust technology is a critical component in today’s financial markets. This is why we are committed to continually developing our already incredibly strong information technology systems and platforms.
Technology planning and investment are core components of our strategic business plan. Capacity and scale management coupled with our program development unit are the key ingredients in delivering powerful, robust, secure, and highly available systems. This assists our clients to stay ahead of their competitors in this rapidly evolving marketplace.
AES Internationals open architecture technology easily integrates with your environment wherever you are located. Our platform offers you fully customised connectivity that seamlessly links your office to investment professionals, clients, and the markets alike.
We offer a range of IT services that massively change the way our partners work. Benefits include:
- Creation of an asset with an easily definable value
- Substantial time savings
- Reduced storage requirements
Administration
A serious cost to business is non revenue generating staff. We provide professionally qualified, highly trained and competent administration staff allowing this overhead to be either cut or re-deployed on more efficient tasks. Our administrators complete highly defined technical and compliance functions using our technology platforms and work to industry leading client servicing standards. This means you benefit from:
- demonstrable cost savings
- reduced business friction through training and retention issues
- the benefits of technical and compliant staff without the training cost
- super pleased clients that are happy to refer business to you
Training and Competency
Training and Competency is absolutely key to differentiating professional organisations. Coherent and structured training within the international market place gives the following benefits:
- Improved Sales
- Improved Clients
- Higher Margins
- Improved retention.
Opening in 2011, the AES International Academy just outside of London provides a state of the art training facility set in 23 acres of landscaped gardens for groups of 5 to 40 participants to undertake a number of internationally focused courses.
For more information on our service solutions, please contact our Client Support Team on +44 (0) 20 3051 7999 or clientservices@AESFinance.com