Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services Corporate Training
Learn fund administration, custody, and depositary services through live instruction and guided labs.
Fund servicing teams master fund administration, custody operations, and depositary oversight. Employees build NAVs, process settlement and corporate actions, and run oversight controls in guided labs led by practitioners. Each session is tuned to your fund types, data, and workflows.
Instructor-led group trainingVirtual / on-site / off-site10 languagesDelivered inEnglish, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, French, Japanese, Italian100+ countriesWe have delivered inUnited States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and 90+ more countries
How we build a fund-servicing capable team
The Edstellar FUND ADMINISTRATION, CUSTODY & DEPOSITARY Capability Model
Assess fund servicing readiness
Skill checks map your team's fund accounting, custody, and oversight knowledge.
Set one servicing standard
One playbook for administration, custody, and depositary controls and reporting.
Practice in labs
Labs cover NAV builds, settlement, corporate actions, and oversight reviews.
Measure the lift
Lab reviews benchmark each employee's fund servicing capability end to end.
Scale across teams
One standard rolls out across funds, desks, and servicing teams.
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Program Overview: What is Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services?
Fund Administration, Custody & Depositary Services is Edstellar's instructor-led program for fund operations, custody, and asset servicing teams. Participants master the fund ecosystem and provider roles, fund accounting with NAV workflows, and custody operations from settlement to corporate actions. The program closes with an end-to-end fund servicing operating model in the capstone.
Training follows the fund lifecycle across six modules. Participants run NAV calculations, process settlements and corporate actions, and apply depositary oversight with regulatory controls in guided labs. Instructors with fund services experience review every workflow, coaching teams on the reconciliation discipline that keeps investors and regulators confident. The final module is the capstone: design a complete fund servicing operating model.
Fund servicing breaks down in the handoffs: valuation errors that surface at NAV, corporate actions missed in custody, and oversight gaps the depositary catches too late. Each failure erodes client trust and invites regulatory attention. This program teaches your teams to run the full servicing chain with precision, from accounting through safekeeping, with controls at every step.
The capstone is the End-to-End Fund Servicing Operating Model. Your team designs the accounting, custody, depositary, and reporting workflows for a simulated fund, then defends the model against reviewers probing for the exact failure points regulators target. They return with an operating blueprint they can adapt to their own funds, ready to raise their servicing standard.
Six modules and 24 hours: fund ecosystem and service roles, fund accounting and NAV workflows, custody operations and corporate actions, depositary oversight and safekeeping, risk controls and reporting, and a capstone fund servicing operating model. Every module pairs concepts with a guided lab, so each technique is practiced before your team applies it to fund work.
Delivery is hybrid across virtual and onsite sessions, scheduled around your calendar. Cohorts train as one group or split into batches, with session materials and lab guides included. Each cohort's examples are tuned to the fund types and service lines your teams support.
What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams
- 1
Fund ecosystem and service roles
Fund structures and how the service lines connect.
- 2
Fund accounting and NAV labs
Build NAVs with valuation and fee logic.
- 3
Custody and corporate actions
Run settlement and asset servicing workflows.
- 4
Depositary oversight
Verify safekeeping and oversee delegates.
- 5
Capstone operating model
Ship an end-to-end servicing model for your funds.
- Instructor-led delivery across virtual, onsite, and hybrid
- Guided labs on fund workflows with instructor coaching
- Capstone operating model, reviewed with your team
- Flexible scheduling around your calendar
- Lab guides and reconciliation templates included
- Group size and batches set along with you
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Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services Course Topics and Program Outline
A tailored 24-hour, six-module workshop: one learning journey from fund servicing foundations to a capstone fund servicing operating model. Hands-on sessions pair concepts with labs on real-world use cases. Materials include lab guides and templates, plus a capstone assessment.
Built by Edstellar with fund servicing practitioners
Built by practitioners who run fund administration, custody, and depositary services in production, shaped around your stack and use cases.
Skill checks baseline your team's fund accounting, custody operations, and oversight knowledge before training begins.
Live instruction covers fund structures, service provider roles, and regulatory expectations across 3 focused hours.
Guided labs build NAV workflows, settlement, and corporate actions skill across 8 hours of supervised fund-servicing practice.
Your team applies oversight, controls, and reporting across 8 hours, then delivers a 5-hour capstone operating model.
From fund servicing foundations to a capstone fund servicing operating model, every technique is practiced in guided labs.
Delivered as
Delivered as a hybrid program of live instruction and guided labs, scheduled around your team's calendar in flexible batches.
Guided walkthrough mapping fund structures, service provider roles, and information flows for a sample fund.
learna)Fund structures: mutual funds, UCITS, AIFs, hedge and pension funds
b)Fund administration: transfer agency, accounting, valuation, reporting
c)Custodian and depositary duties: safekeeping, settlement, oversight
d)Key regulations: UCITS, AIFMD, and regional fund rules at a high level
e)How administration, custody, and depositary services connect
Build and review a NAV for a sample multi-currency portfolio with pricing overrides, fee accruals, and exception handling.
practicea)Portfolio accounting and multi-currency bookkeeping
b)Valuation of listed and illiquid assets with pricing hierarchies
c)NAV calculation, share class treatment, and fee accruals
d)Pricing exceptions, breaks, and NAV sign-off controls
Process settlement instructions and corporate action events in a simulated custody environment with fails and exceptions.
practicea)Trade settlement cycles, delivery versus payment, and fails management
b)Corporate action processing: dividends, splits, mergers, and elections
c)Asset servicing: income collection, tax reclaims, and proxy voting
d)Custody reconciliations and cash management workflows
e)Position and cash controls across the custody ledger
Run a depositary oversight check on delegated custody and cash flow controls, documenting findings and escalations.
applya)Depositary duties: safekeeping, ownership verification, cash flow monitoring
b)Oversight of delegated functions and sub-custodian due diligence
c)Asset segregation, investor protection, and regulatory expectations
d)Escalation, incident management, and audit readiness
Resolve reconciliation breaks across accounting and custody records and draft a client-ready fund report summary.
applya)Reconciliations between fund accounting, custody, and administrator records
b)Operational risk controls: segregation of duties, access, change management
c)AML and KYC touchpoints in fund servicing and flag handling
d)Client and regulatory reporting: statements, factsheets, and disclosures
Deliver an end-to-end fund servicing operating model with controls documentation and a month-end rehearsal.
applya)Design the operating model: admin, custody, and depositary handoffs
b)Build controls: valuation, oversight, and reporting checkpoints
c)Simulated month-end: NAV run, reporting, and incident drill
d)Present the operating model for instructor review
Customize this program tailored to your team?
Tell us your training needs: what your team already works with, the level they’re at, and the topics you want them to focus on. We’ll adjust the modules, duration and hands-on labs, and send you a customized outline for your group.
Key Skills and Outcomes Your Team Will Gain
Seven job-ready outcomes your team will demonstrate by the end of the program. Each competency is practiced in guided labs and reviewed in the capstone operating model.
Map the fund servicing ecosystem
Explain fund structures and the roles of administrators, custodians, and depositaries, including how the service lines connect.
Build and review a NAV
Run fund accounting, valuation, and NAV workflows with pricing hierarchies, fee accruals, and sign-off controls.
Run custody operations
Process settlement instructions, corporate actions, and asset servicing events on a simulated custody ledger.
Apply depositary oversight
Verify safekeeping and cash flows, oversee delegated functions, and run sub-custodian due diligence.
Operate risk controls
Apply segregation of duties, access controls, and change management across fund servicing workflows.
Reconcile and report
Resolve breaks between accounting and custody records and produce client-ready and regulator-ready reporting.
Design an operating model
Assemble an end-to-end fund servicing operating model with handoffs, checkpoints, and documented controls.
Teams that Benefit from this Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services Group Training
This group training is built for fund administration, custody, and depositary groups running fund servicing operations. Content adapts to each cohort's roles, fund types, and experience, so every batch practices the workflows it owns, from NAV builds to depositary oversight.
Run clean fund accounting and NAV cycles.
Administrators learn valuation hierarchies, NAV builds with share class and fee logic, and sign-off controls, all practiced on sample portfolios.
Workflow friction
- Manual pricing overrides slow the close
- Share class and fee logic get tangled
- NAV sign-off lacks a repeatable control
How the program helps
- NAV builds with full exception handling
- Valuation and pricing hierarchy fluency
- Fewer month-end errors and rework
Practice use cases
- NAV build labs
- Pricing override drills
- Fee accrual practice
Settle trades and service assets with confidence.
Custody teams practice settlement cycles, corporate action processing, and asset servicing on a simulated ledger, with fails management built in.
Workflow friction
- Settlement fails pile up at month end
- Complex corporate actions are easy to miss
- Reconciliations lag behind trading volume
How the program helps
- Reliable settlement and fails management
- Corporate actions processed without misses
- Tighter position and cash reconciliations
Practice use cases
- Settlement simulation labs
- Corporate action drills
- Reconciliation practice
Oversee delegates and protect investors.
Depositary staff practice safekeeping verification, cash flow monitoring, and sub-custodian due diligence, with escalation paths documented.
Workflow friction
- Delegated functions drift unnoticed
- Cash flow monitoring lacks structure
- Regulatory findings arrive as surprises
How the program helps
- Sharper delegated-function oversight
- Documented escalation and incident paths
- Audit-ready oversight evidence
Practice use cases
- Oversight review labs
- Due diligence exercises
- Escalation drills
Produce reporting that stands up to scrutiny.
Reporting teams practice reconciliations, control evidence, and client and regulatory reporting, from statements to disclosures.
Workflow friction
- Reporting sources disagree at the cut
- Control evidence is scattered
- Disclosures miss regulatory expectations
How the program helps
- Accurate, reconciled client reporting
- Control evidence ready for audits
- Clearer regulatory disclosures
Practice use cases
- Reporting build labs
- Break-resolution drills
- Disclosure reviews
Teams train as a cross-functional workforce, with each small group aligned on shared servicing and control standards.
Prerequisites: This program benefits fund administration, custody, depositary, and reporting professionals who work across the fund servicing lifecycle. Familiarity with fund data or spreadsheets helps but is not required, and no prior custody experience is needed. Content adapts to each cohort's funds, tools, and experience level.
Fund Operations Associate to Fund Servicing Professional
Tracks how fund servicing professionals progress from basic service-line knowledge to advanced oversight and operating-model design across the program's learn, practice, and apply phases.
A program that grows with fund servicing careers, from first NAV build to confident end-to-end delivery.
Different Teams, Locations, Time Zones, or Languages? We've Got You Covered.
Whether your teams are spread across countries, time zones, languages, or experience levels, we deliver tailored training programs that ensure a consistent learning experience across your global workforce.
Certificate of Training Completion.
On successful completion, employees receive an Edstellar course completion certificate, recognizing their commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. It validates the skills they have built and motivates them to keep growing and contribute to organizational success.
Earned, not attended. Awarded on completion of all hands-on labs and the capstone project.
Training Delivery Modes: Onsite, Virtual and Hybrid
Hybrid delivery blends onsite and live virtual sessions with hands-on labs throughout, so fund servicing teams practice administration, custody, and depositary workflows wherever they work.
Onsite Training
Instructor-led training at your offices, with labs set up on your network and data tooling. The instructor pairs with your team in person, reviews NAV and reconciliation work, and tunes exercises to your funds and workflows.
- Instructor-led training at your offices
- Labs set up on your network and data tooling
- In-person pairing and workflow reviews
- Exercises tuned to your funds and workflows
Live Virtual Training
Live virtual sessions on Zoom or Teams with screen-shared NAV builds, breakout labs, and real-time review. Your team gets the same guided labs and instructor coaching as onsite, from anywhere.
- Live virtual sessions on Zoom or Teams
- Screen-shared exercises and breakout labs
- Real-time workflow review with the instructor
- Same guided labs as onsite, from anywhere
Hybrid Training
Instructor-led sessions mix onsite and virtual delivery with guided labs throughout. Your team builds NAVs, runs settlement and oversight exercises with live instructor coaching. Hybrid keeps scheduling flexible.
- Live instruction across onsite and virtual sessions
- Guided labs with instructor coaching and workflow reviews
- Real fund servicing workflows practiced throughout
- Blended delivery scheduled around your calendar
Need a customized training format that works for your team?
Our training delivery is customized to your team's schedule, full days, half days, sessions spread across weeks, or modular formats. Share your preferred timeline, and we'll plan the training around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Share your team size, timelines, and delivery preference, and we will send a detailed per-group quote with batch options.
Yes. A short discovery call maps your fund types, service lines, and goals before we confirm the proposal.
Yes. Live virtual delivery covers the same labs and capstone, run on Zoom or Teams with screen-shared exercises.
Yes. Onsite delivery sets up labs on your network and tunes exercises to your funds and workflows.
The program runs 24 hours across six modules, delivered in flexible batches around your calendar.
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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.
Fund administration sits third in this path, after market products and post-trade settlement, because funds hold and trade the instruments your team has already studied. This course covers NAV, custody and depositary oversight. The path ends with Luxembourg fund governance and AIFMD, which set the rules many fund servicers work under.
KNOW THE MARKETS
Capital Markets & Investment Products Training
Learn the securities and fund products that administrators value, custodians hold and depositaries oversee.
RUN POST-TRADE
Capital Markets Operations & Post-Trade Settlement (T+1) Corporate Training
Follow trades through clearing and settlement, the post-trade flows that feed fund accounting and custody records.
ADMINISTER FUNDS
Fund Administration, Custody & Depositary Services Training
Run NAV calculation, transfer agency, custody and depositary oversight for investment funds and institutional clients.
THEN COMPLY
Luxembourg Fund Governance & AIFMD Compliance Training
Apply Luxembourg fund governance and AIFMD requirements to the funds and service providers your team supports.
Why Choose Edstellar as Your Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services Corporate Training Provider
When comparing providers, Edstellar is the training partner fund servicing teams choose for practitioner-led expertise and 5+ years of corporate training experience. Our methodology blends concise instruction with hands-on labs, and we share each trainer profile before booking. The result is measurable quality in the NAVs, settlements, and oversight controls your team ships.
EXPERT TRAINERS
YEARS DELIVERING
ORGANIZATIONS TRAINED
CERTIFIED
Tailored
Every cohort's labs, examples, and exercises are tuned to your fund types, custody workflows, and oversight standards.
Proven Methodology
A learn, practice, and apply arc moves fund servicing teams from concepts to production-ready controls.
Practice-Based Learning
Guided labs mirror real fund work, from NAV builds and settlement runs to oversight reviews and the capstone.
Expert Trainers
Sessions are led by fund servicing practitioners with real administration, custody, and depositary experience.
Global Scale
One standard serves fund teams across regions, fund types, and regulatory frameworks without losing local relevance.
Measurable Outcomes
Lab reviews and capstone assessments track each team's readiness against clear servicing and control benchmarks.
Build Disciplined Fund Servicing From NAV Calculations to Oversight Controls
Edstellar connects fund administration, custody, and depositary responsibilities through a shared servicing case. Participants calculate NAV, process settlement and corporate-action scenarios, and examine oversight controls before resolving reconciliation breaks. The final operating model and month-end rehearsal are reviewed for consistent records, clear handoffs, and documented handling of exceptions and escalations.
- Step 01
Consult
We explore NAV discrepancies, settlement exceptions, and reconciliation difficulties, establishing the fund data familiarity and servicing responsibilities that participants bring to the program.
- Step 02
Plan
Fund structures and provider roles lead into accounting and NAV, custody operations, depositary oversight, and reporting before the end-to-end servicing model.
- Step 03
Align
We align fund-services expertise with administration, custody, depositary, and reporting roles, confirming the fund types and spreadsheet readiness needed for the exercises.
- Step 04
Customize
Sample multi-currency portfolios, corporate actions, and custody records reflect relevant fund structures, supporting realistic exception handling without exposing investor or client information.
- Step 05
Execute
Participants review NAV calculations, resolve settlement and reconciliation breaks, and document oversight findings, receiving feedback on valuation reasoning, records, and appropriate escalation.
- Step 06
Evaluate
We assess the operating model and month-end rehearsal for consistent accounting and custody information, explicit control ownership, supported valuations, and clearly documented exception resolution.
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→Coaching solutions
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Fund Administration, Custody & Depositary Services Training Packages & Pricing
Where L&D holds an annual budget, license packages price the whole year at once instead of raising a purchase order per workshop. Hours and licenses are pooled across teams, programs and locations, so unused capacity is not stranded in one department.
Starter
120
trainee licenses64 hours of group training
Tailored for SMBs
Growth
320
trainee licenses160 hours of group training
Ideal for growing SMBs
Enterprise
800
trainee licenses400 hours of group training
Designed for large corporations
Custom
Unlimited
trainee licensesDuration set by the rollout
Multi-region and multi-year
Training Packages & Pricing
Choose the training format that works for your team. Pricing is customized based on your requirements, cohort size, and delivery needs.
Request a Quote for Fund Administration, Custody and Depositary Services Training for Your Team
Share your team size, fund types, service lines, and timelines to receive a tailored training plan and quote. Book a discovery call to discuss your goals; we confirm availability and respond with a proposal.