Top-Tier Efficiency and Service for Your CIT
Our firm’s focused, team-based audit approach and experience — specifically with rules and compliance related to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) — offers expertise and insight to the niche area of collective investment trusts (CITs). Even though these pooled investment vehicles do not have SEC regulatory and reporting burdens, CITs have their own unique set of complex reporting requirements and often are limited with respect to who can invest in them. Additionally, many CITs are funded by employee benefit plans, rendering CITs subject to ERISA regulatory requirements.
We work with CITs ranging from newly seeded funds with $100,000 in net assets to those with substantial asset levels and include highly respected and recognizable names in the industry. Our hands-on approach to these funds combined with our technical depth surrounding audit and accounting issues affecting the investment industry allow for an efficient and service-oriented approach that cannot be matched by our competitors.
Our CIT Client Profiles
Our representative client types include a variety of operating structures, fund types and investment compositions:
Trusts with multiple funds
Multi-class funds
Newly established funds
Experience with various trust companies and fund service providers nationwide
Other operating structures and fund types, including fund-of-funds
International, global equities, and emerging markets funds
Real estate funds
Large, mid, small and micro-cap equity funds
Long-short funds
Fixed income funds
Muni, corporate, asset-backed, mortgage-backed, high-yield and illiquid bonds
Derivatives, including futures, options, commodity-linked securities and swaps
Pass-through investments such as partnerships, QPTPs and REITs
Collective investment trust services
Comprehensive audit services
Form 5500 preparation and filing
