External Asset Managing
A Custodian Built Around How Independent Managers Actually Work
Independent managers need a bank that handles the infrastructure without competing for the relationship. We provide custody, execution, credit, and reporting through a dedicated team that knows your book — so your time goes to your clients rather than to administration. Your clients remain unambiguously yours; our role is to make you better equipped to serve them.
What's Included
Dedicated EAM Desk
A named team that knows your portfolios and your working preferences — no ticketing system, no rotating contacts, no explaining your book twice.
Custody & Execution
Secure custody with efficient execution across asset classes and markets, including out-of-hours trading where your strategies require it.
Fast-Track Onboarding
An onboarding process built for speed and predictability, so client relationships transfer without months of friction.
Lombard & Credit Facilities
Direct access to the people who approve credit, with lending decisions measured in days rather than committee cycles.
Open-Architecture Platform
Access to the full investment universe, our in-house research, and independent analysis — with no obligation to place our products.
Digital Tools & Reporting
E-banking, consolidated reporting, and portfolio data delivered in formats that work with your own systems.
Service Benefits
Infrastructure That Gets Out of Your Way
Most custodian relationships cost independent managers time: waiting on onboarding, chasing approvals, re-explaining positions to whoever picks up the phone. We are deliberately human-sized, which means senior people are reachable and decisions move quickly. Every part of the offering is judged against a single question — does this give you more time with your clients?
Benefits
- Senior management directly accessible
- Onboarding and credit decisions in days, not months
- Your client relationships remain entirely your own
- No proprietary products you're expected to place
- Flexible, transparent pricing arrangements
- One team accountable across custody, credit, and reporting
How We Work
A Structured Approach to Professional Bookkeeping
Step 01
Understanding Your Practice
We start with how you actually operate: your client base, investment approach, reporting requirements, and where your current setup costs you time.
Step 02
Structuring the Partnership
Custody arrangements, pricing, platform access, and system integration are agreed up front and documented, with no ambiguity about who does what.
Step 03
Onboarding Your Clients
Your dedicated desk manages the transfer of client relationships and assets, coordinating documentation so the disruption to your clients is minimal.
Step 04
Ongoing Partnership
Day-to-day support from the same named team, with regular reviews of the arrangement as your practice grows.
WHY CAPITAL HERITAGE
A Bank That Competes With No One for Your Clients
No Conflict of Interest
We do not pursue your clients. The EAM relationship is a partnership, and treating it otherwise would end it.
Genuine Speed
Short reporting lines mean rapid decisions on onboarding, credit, and exceptions — the areas where custodian relationships usually stall.
Independent Research Access
Our in-house equity, fixed income, and alternatives research is available to you and your clients, with no strings attached to it.
Entrepreneurial by Size
We are deliberately human-sized. That's what makes senior access and flexible arrangements possible rather than theoretical.
FAQs
No. Your clients remain your clients. We act as custodian and provide the banking infrastructure; the advisory relationship stays entirely with you.
Standard onboarding is measured in days once documentation is complete. Your dedicated desk manages the process directly rather than passing it to a central queue.
We work with managers from [CHF X] in assets under management. Where a practice falls below that, we will tell you plainly rather than take on a relationship neither side can service properly.
Pricing is agreed individually and structured flexibly around your book. All costs are disclosed in full, including any embedded in underlying instruments.
Yes. Our in-house research and the open-architecture platform are available to you, with no requirement to allocate to any of it.
Yes. Many of the managers we work with hold assets across several custodians, and our reporting is built to accommodate that.
Let's Discuss How Your Practice Would Work Here
Whether you are establishing a new practice or reviewing an existing custodian arrangement, the conversation starts with the desk that would look after your book.