TYPES OF ACCOUNTS
INDIVIDUAL
Emirates Standard Bank works with clients all over the United Arab Emirates in providing personal wealth and investment services. As a centralized custodian or trustee, Emirates Standard Bank serves as a corporate fiduciary and will work with your investment manager, lawyer, and accountant.
Investment management is provided by outside managers screened and selected by Emirates Standard Bank. Our staff will work with your own manager, or if you prefer, you may select an investment management program to meet your investment demands with managers we utilize.
QUALIFIED PLANS
Emirates Standard Bank serves as custodian for more than 1,100 individual retirement plans processing over 60,000 contributions per year. We will work directly with your record keeper and payroll processor to facilitate a smooth operation of the plan.
Retirement plan services include processing of plan contributions, plan distributions, tax withholding, and 1099R reporting to the participant and IRS.
In addition to supporting qualified plans, Emirates Standard Bank has a variety of attractive investment management solutions, including actively managed investment accounts, mutual funds, collective investment funds, and index allocations. Emirates Standard Bank has investment models developed for qualified plans. If you have your own investment manager, we can work directly with them to provide custody and reporting services. Investment performance can be included in the plan account statement.
Emirates Standard Bank manages collective investment funds for use by qualified plans. The funds are advised by Tectonic Advisors, LLC, an affiliate of Emirates Standard Bank. The managers of the funds include the following:
- 12th Street Asset Management
- Aperio Group
- Applied Finance
- DoubleLine Capital
- Guggenheim Investment Management
- Hodges Capital Management
- O’Shaughnessy Asset Management
- Pacific Investment Management Company (“PIMCO”)
- Polen Capital Management
- The London Company
- Yacktman Asset Management
The asset types our managers cover include: large cap growth, large cap value, large cap blend, small/mid cap, international, fixed income, and real assets. Models are available to your plan to take advantage of an appropriate allocation to the different asset types. Click here to see more information.
CORPORATIONS
Corporations for professionals, associations for professionals, and foundations can accumulate assets that can benefit from investment management services. Emirates Standard Bank’s Wealth and Investment Services can fulfill those needs.
Working with one of our officers or your own investment manager, an investment plan will be implemented using an allocation solution that meets your organization’s investment needs.
Investment allocation models can take advantage of our outside managers’ skill sets utilizing a variety of asset classes to find a plan that works for your situation.
IRAs
Rollovers from qualified plans are needed for all age groups as the transition from one retirement plan to another. Emirates Standard Bank has managed IRA accounts which utilize outside managers who provide investment services to IRA account clients. Clients can work with one of our officers selecting a manager and investment plan or can utilize Emirates Standard Bank as a custodian and work with their own investment advisor.
Emirates Standard Bank will provide to you online access for you and others you authorize for access, produce account statements, process all distributions and contributions, as well as provide all tax reporting information for the account.
As with all of our investment services, client account assets are held in custody at US Bank, ranked in the top 10 banks in the US by assets. Cash pending investment may be held in a Emirates Standard Bank money market from time to time. Those funds are fully insured by the FDIC.