Citco announces completion of the Citco Fund Services SOC 1 report for the 21st consecutive year

New York, 20 November 2024 – The Citco group of companies (“Citco”) is pleased to announce, that for the year ended September 30, 2024, the various Citco Fund Services companies (“CFS”) have successfully received a System and Organization Controls 1 (“SOC 1”) Type #2 certification from an independent auditing firm for the twenty-first consecutive year. The examination, in respect of the processes and controls within CFS, resulted in the provision of an unqualified audit opinion from an independent audit firm.

The 2024 SOC 1 Type #2 Report has been prepared in accordance with the guidelines contained in the United States Statement Attestation Standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) and International Standard on Assurance Engagements (“ISAE”) 3402 and its related amendments and interpretations.

The overall scope of the 2024 SOC 1 Type #2 Report covers Citco’s operations that provide fund administration and related investor relations services for Single Manager, Fund of Hedge Funds, Private Equity and Real Assets clients, custody services that are available to CFS clients and the related IT general controls associated with these services. The independent examination consisted of an evaluation of the design and operating effectiveness of the following controls:

• Fund Accounting and Investor Relations

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  From a Fund Accounting and Investor Relations perspective, the examination included (for single manager, fund of hedge funds, private equity, and real assets funds unless specifically stated);

  • Trade processing;
  • Price verification;
  • Reconciliations of cash and portfolio positions;
  • Valuation;
  • NAV production;
  • Citco Waterfall calculations for private equity and real assets funds;
  • Allocations;
  • Middle Office Solutions; and
  • Investor relations.
• Custody

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  From a Custody perspective, the examination included:

  • Client Order Placement;
  • Client Trade Verification;
  • Trade Document Completion;
  • Settlements;
  • Transfers;
  • Corporate Actions;
  • Securities Reconciliation;
  • Cash Reconciliation;
  • Static Data;
  • Network Management; and
  • Vault.
• Information Technology

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  From an Information Technology perspective, the examination included:

  • Change management;
  • Backup, restoration and replication;
  • Logical security;
  • Physical security;
  • Incident management;
  • Job scheduling and system monitoring; and
  • AWS Cloud Technologies.