Coverage of all cost elements

Our analysis and optimisation process covers all cost elements – more than 150 in total – which are incurred throughout the process of investing.

Management costs:

• Management costs including often neglected performance fees and their calculation models

Infrastructure costs:

• Costs of custody, administration of funds and securities, investment controlling, financing costs, costs within financial products, marketing and distribution costs

Transaction costs:

• Explicit costs such as brokerage or other expenses, implicit costs such as bid- ask-spreads, market impact, waiting costs, costs of hedging strategies, valuation of option pricing

Opportunity costs:

• Revenue from securities lending, transaction taxes, missing dividend income from structured products

We cover all asset classes including and especially alternative asset classes.