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Investor Data Services Limited ("IDS") was founded in 2001. The company provides buy-side financial institutions with a range of data-driven services focused on the costs and risks associated with the safekeeping, management, and administration of invested assets. With its head-office in the UK and subsidiaries in Australia and Canada, IDS’s clients are buy-side institutions including private and public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, family offices, insurance companies, private wealth managers and investment managers in Australasia, Europe and North America.

IDS’s clients range in size from £0.5 billion (€0.6 billion or $0.75 billion) to over £2 trillion (€2.4 trillion or $3 trillion) of assets under management or custody.

IDS provides its clients with a number of services. These include:

Cost Explorer and Risk Explorer services that benchmark and monitor the costs and risks associated with the management and administration of invested assets. These services include:

Asset servicing and custody fee benchmarking Foreign exchange transaction cost benchmarking Cash interest rate benchmarking Investment management fee benchmarking Brokerage commission and other transaction cost benchmarking Fund administration cost benchmarking Global custodian bank ratings and rating outlooks Custodian bank key operational performance indicators Custody contract reviews