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Custody account services

Custody account services for safeguarding your assets

Asset servicing built for your complex challenges.

Principal® Custody Solutions specializes in working with a large and complex pool of custodial assets through high-touch, personal service from experienced professionals who feel like an extension of your team.

We deliver trust and custody services for 2,200 relationships, with assets under custody totaling nearly $1 trillion.1

We know your custody needs don’t fall into a one-size-fits-all approach. Based on our experience with clients like you, we understand how to balance your goals with market conditions by providing options to address your specific needs.

Our custody services can include:

 
  • Asset servicing and safekeeping
  • Trustee
  • Fiduciary support
  • Online account access
  • Safekeeping of global domiciled securities for US-based accounts
  • Financial statements
  • Cash transactions
  • Daily valuation
  • Cash sweep
  • Benefit payments
  • Tax reporting
  • Employee benefits design, consulting, and administration
  • Custom reporting
  • GASB information and statements
  • Actuarial consulting
  • Transition management
  • Asset allocation overlays
  • Foreign exchange
  • Schedule D reporting
  • Trade clearance
  • Performance reporting
  • Governmental reporting
  • Ad hoc reporting
  • Capital change notifications
  • Third-party interface
  • Collateral valuation
  • Unitized accounting
  • Donor accounting
  • FAS 157/ASC 820 reporting
  • Straight through processing (SWIFT)
  • Participant web experience
  • Component of Total Retirement Solutions®
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Have questions? Let’s talk.

See how Principal® Custody Solutions could help you reach your unique goals.

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If you are either a retirement plan participant or retiree with a payment question, call our Engagement Center between 7 am and 5 pm CT at 877-877-1207 for help.

1 As of Dec. 31, 2023.

The subject matter in this communication is educational only and provided with the understanding that Principal® is not rendering legal, accounting, investment advice, or tax advice. You should consult with appropriate counsel, financial professionals and other advisors on all matters pertaining to legal, tax, investment or accounting obligations and requirements. The information shown is not intended to provide any suggestion that you engage in or refrain from taking a particular course of action.

OCIO solutions and LDI solutions are provided by Investment Solutions, an advisory team within Principal Asset ManagementSM. Principal Asset Management leads global asset management at Principal®.

Custody and trust services are provided by Principal Bank®, Member FDIC, and/or Principal Trust Company®. These services are provided under the trade name Principal® Custody Solutions. Principal Trust Company is a trade name of Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Company.

When Principal Custody Solutions is providing investment management services, Principal Custody Solutions serves as the investment manager or discretionary trustee but leverages the investment expertise of Principal Asset Management. Customers may also contract directly with Principal Asset Management for investment management services. In those instances, Principal Custody Solutions serves solely in a custodial or trustee capacity. Please refer to your underlying service agreements for details.

Principal Global Investors, LLC is registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a commodity trading advisor (CTA), a commodity pool operator (CPO) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). Principal Global Investors advises qualified eligible persons (QEPs) under CFTC Regulation 4.7. Principal Asset Management is a trade name of Principal Global Investors, LLC.

Insurance products and plan administrative services provided through Principal Life Insurance Company®.

Principal Life Insurance Company, Principal Global Investors®, Principal Bank, and Principal Trust Company are members of the Principal Financial Group®, Des Moines, Iowa 50392.

Investment and insurance products are:

  • Not insured by the FDIC or any Federal Government Agency
  • Not a Deposit or Other Obligation of, or Guaranteed by, Principal Bank or Any Bank Affiliate
  • Subject to Investment Risks, Including Possible Loss of the Principal Amount Invested

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