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Audit & assurance services

Challenges

You seek a firm that is independent - that can deliver unbiased, clear, and straightforward advice, guidance, and opinion. At the same time, you seek a firm that can deliver original insights and ideas derived from its own industry-specific experience and research.

For that kind of relationship, you need a professional services firm that will work hand-in-glove with you -  closely and collaboratively. Not a firm that will keep you at arm’s length, but a firm that will frequently communicate with you to deliver the insightful, value-driven service needed to help developing your business.

Deloitte is that audit firm.

Deloitte service offering

Statutory audit

  • Statutory and contractual audit of the financial statements
  • Issuance of the long form report in accordance with the guidelines set forth in the CSSF circulars 2002/81 and 2004/146
  • Issuance of the management letter
  • Issuance of the reports in line with CSSF 2002/77 requirements

Reporting for funds restructuring

  • Independent review of contribution and redemption in kind
  • Agreed upon procedures in relation with transfers (domiciliation, custodian, central administration, …)

Why Deloitte?

  • Collaborative service
  • A local team with national and global reach
  • Year-round communication — no surprises
  • Deep industry knowledge delivered by core team leaders
  • High focus on quality and constant attention to deadlines
  • A team that mirrors your unique business and organisational identity
  • Specialist and multidisciplinary team to test complex areas
  • A “no surprise” fee policy
  • Rigorous anti money-laundering policies

Reporting for cross border distributions

  • Various specific reporting requirements such as to the Hong Kong Securities and Financial Commission (SFC), to the “Dutch Authorities”
  • Swiss performance fee checks
  • Review of German solvency ratio/CAR-reporting

Pre-launch stress tests

  • Review of valuation models
  • Review of performance fee calculation models
  • Review of risk management models

For further information about valuation models, performance fees and risk management models, please visit the Performance measurement, valuation & risk management section.

Other engagements

  • Report on agreed upon procedures
  • Any special request from the CSSF

The right audit approach for you

Our audit approach is hands-on and partner-led. We attach importance to understand your operations and your long-range strategic plans. Based on this knowledge, our approach will encompass a highly robust risk assessment process and an audit plan designed to respond to the key risks which are relevant to our audit. Overall, our audit seeks to provide you with information which will assist in the preservation and protection of your brand and reputation.

Industry leadership

External auditors for approximately 2,000 regulated sub-funds, which account for 17% market share in terms of number of audited sub-funds and 30% of the Specialised Investment Funds (SIF)

Audit approach

 

Contacts

  • Laurent Fedrigo
    Audit Partner
  • Elisabeth Layer
    Audit Partner
  • Olivier Lefèvre
    Audit Partner
  • Philippe Lenges
    Audit Partner
  • Barbara Michaelis
    Audit Partner
  • Johnny Yip Lan Yan
    Audit Partner

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