State Street Selected by Charles Schwab Investment Management to Service $140 Billion in Assets
October 27 2005 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), the world's leading provider
of services to institutional investors, announced today that it has
been selected by Charles Schwab Investment Management (CSIM) to
provide a broad range of investment services including accounting,
custody and securities lending to the Schwab Funds and Laudus
funds. The fund complexes represent more than 67 funds in total and
$140 billion in assets. "Our goal is to move from a complex
structure of several outside vendor relationships to a simpler one,
consolidating to gain efficiency," said George Pereira, chief
financial officer of CSIM. "The new fund accounting and custody
structure we have implemented will offer numerous benefits,
including a simpler and more scalable operating structure, a more
efficient shareholder reporting process and tighter risk
management. State Street excelled in all aspects of the competitive
bid process and is the best choice to serve CSIM's needs going
forward." State Street is the leading provider of fund accounting
in the United States, servicing more than 40 percent of the mutual
fund industry, and is the largest contributor of mutual fund NAV's
to NASDAQ. "We are pleased that CSIM has selected State Street for
a wide range of services in support of its mutual fund family,"
said Jay Hooley, executive vice president and head of global
investment servicing at State Street. "We have extensive experience
working with large mutual fund management complexes and integrating
the various aspects of their servicing requirements in to our
operations. We look forward to a long term partnership with Schwab
as they continue to growth their business." About State Street
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is the world's leading
specialist in providing institutional investors with investment
servicing, investment management and investment research and
trading. With $9.8 trillion in assets under custody and $1.4
trillion in assets under management (as of September 30, 2005),
State Street operates in 25 countries and more than 100 geographic
markets worldwide. For more information, visit State Street's web
site at www.statestreet.com. About Charles Schwab Investment
Management Founded in 1991, Charles Schwab Investment Management,
Inc. (CSIM), an affiliate of Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., is one
of the nation's largest mutual fund companies with $144 billion
under management as of September 30, 2005. It is among the
country's largest money market fund managers and is the
third-largest provider of retail index funds. In addition to
managing Schwab proprietary funds, CSIM provides oversight for the
institutional-style, sub-advised Laudus Fund family. CSIM currently
manages 67 mutual funds including 23 actively managed funds.
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