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Portfolio administration

We provide full administration support as part of our financial management service, keeping you informed of your investments and enabling you to track performance quickly and easily.

Valuations and reports

You will receive a valuation report every six months with a commentary on the economic and investment environment, and we can issue them on a more frequent basis if you prefer. After every transaction, we will send you a contract note for your records. We also offer portfolio access through our secure server where up-to-date valuations can be viewed at any time and printed out if required.

Tax information

Brewin Dolphin clients can receive a comprehensive end-of-year tax schedule which includes a composite tax certificate for UK and overseas income, a schedule of transactions for the year and UK capital gains tax calculations if appropriate.

Security of your assets

We hold all client money in accordance with the Financial Services Authority’s client money rules. These require us to hold clients’ money separately from the firm’s money and hold it at an EU regulated credit institution. For added security, we also spread pooled client deposits between a number of banks. In the unlikely event that any of these banks default, UK resident investors would be entitled to claim compensation from the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).

Nominee company

We use a nominee company to register and administer holdings on our clients’ behalf. This minimises paperwork and speeds up settlement of transactions, without affecting ownership. Our nominee companies are separate legal entities from Brewin Dolphin and do not trade. All our nominee companies are run in accordance with the Financial Services Authority rules. Clients’ assets held by our nominees are treated by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in the same manner as stock registered in clients’ own names.

As an additional safeguard, all our nominee companies are regularly audited by Deloitte and comply with the Audit Assurance Faculty (formerly FRAG21). Brewin Dolphin also adheres to the FSA financial stability regulations under the Capital Requirements Directive which requires that we maintain a minimum level of financial resources at all times. Brewin Dolphin has also taken care to ensure the adequacy of its insurance programme.