CEFEX Fiduciary Certification
Nottingham Investment Administration has earned CEFEX Certification of its Investment Support Services. This represents independent recognition of our conformity with a Global Standard of fiduciary care applicable to firms which provide administration services to investment managers, or investment manager administrators, including back-office functions to investment management firms who assume fiduciary responsibilities to their clients.
This certification obtained from the Centre For Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX) provides an assurance to our clients that our investment manager administration services conform to the Standard of Fiduciary Excellence represented by “Practices for Investment Manager Administration Services.”
Nottingham is the first national firm to attain CEFEX Certification for Investment Manager Administration and is testament to our commitment to put the interests of investors first.
At a time, when investors are concerned to know that the investment managers to whom they entrust their wealth will honor their obligations of loyalty and care to their clients, Nottingham is at the forefront of independent administrators who provide services that support a manager’s fiduciary functions. Through its CEFEX Certification, Nottingham demonstrates to investment managers and their clients that Nottingham’s administration services are consistent with best practices and aid investment managers in fulfilling their fiduciary responsibilities to investors.
Nottingham’s CEFEX Certificate can be viewed by clicking on this link: View Certificate and a copy of the CEFEX Public Report which details the specific practices with which Nottingham conforms may be downloaded by clicking on the link: CEFEX Public Certification Report (PDF)
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CEFEX, Centre For Fiduciary Excellence provides independent verification of an organization’s conformity with all Practices and Criteria that constitute a Standard applicable to a particular function involved in the management of other people’s financial assets. Whether as trustees or investment committee members of foundations, endowments or retirement plan, or as an Investment Advisor, Asset Manager, Recordkeeper or other service provider, such as Nottigham Investment Administration, the need to demonstrate one’s trustworthiness to one’s constituents or clients is becoming increasingly more important.
CEFEX certification helps increase trust. It serves as a tool to publicly demonstrate best practices in fiduciary operations. It is a self-imposed due diligence for the benefit of an investor who has directly or indirectly entrusted financial assets to another. Such due diligence takes the form of an assessment process conducted by a CEFEX Analyst. This Analyst has achieved the Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst™ from Fi360, has extensive industry experience and has access to CEFEX experts in related disciplines.
Standardization is essential in achieving global acceptance of the principles of fiduciary excellence and to assuring investors of consistent, unbiased methodologies. CEFEX uses the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 19011 for performing assessments. This is a methodology employed internationally in other industries for over 30 years.