Mutual Funds & ETFs
What’s important to you when looking for a mutual fund auditor? Is it the client list? Or fees for services? How closely do you look at the strength of the day-to-day team that will perform the audits of your funds?
For audits of mutual funds and ETFs , real value is found in the strength of the audit team that will serve your Funds day-to-day. We staff our service teams with senior personnel with significant fund expertise because we understand that the strength of a day-to-day audit team, the professionals who will really perform the audits of your Funds, will determine the quality of the audit and the level of service you will receive.
BBD’s Investment Management Group is among the top providers in the United States of audit and tax services for the investment management industry. Additionally, BBD is among the top 10 providers in the United States of audits of mutual funds. Services for the investment management industry currently represent 55% of the business of our firm. Senior Investment Management Group members, who are active, hands-on members of all service teams, have worked in the industry, on average, for more than 18 years.
What our dedication to the industry means is that our clients are served by professionals who have truly dedicated their careers to investment companies and work with investment companies every day of the year. And because our teams are staffed at all levels with professionals who serve only the investment management industry- from partners, to tax specialists, to staff accountants, clients work with a team that has dedicated their careers to the service of investment companies. Your team audits mutual funds and ETFs every day of the year.
Services for mutual funds and ETFs include:
Audit and Audit-Related Services
- Audits of annual financial statements
- Assistance with semi-annual reports to shareholders
- Review of post-effective amendments to registration statements
- Internal Controls reviews
Tax
- Preparation or review of federal/state income tax returns
- Preparation or review of federal excise tax returns
- Assistance with interpretation sub-chapter M requirements
- Assistance with or review of dividend distribution calculations
- Assistance with Year-end Form 1099 and other tax reporting
- Assistance with analyzing tax ramifications of complex securities transactions
In addition to audit and tax services, our Investment Management Group offers objective insight regarding:
- Organization of start-ups
- Selection of form of organization
- Selecting third-party service providers
Can we help you? Contact any member of our Investment Management Group listed to the right.
