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Investment
Services
The Seattle Banks Investment Management Service (IMS) offers professional and objective expertise in helping customers select and analyze individual securities and in shaping overall investment strategies. IMS staff manage customers investment portfolios to meet specific risk, return and maturity objectives, and provide timely research and recommendations. This service is designed primarily for institutions that do not have full-time investment officers. Portfolio performance is reviewed by the Seattle Banks Risk Management Committee and reported to customers on a monthly basis.
Customers may also simply choose to receive detailed investment performance information. The Seattle Bank provides analysis to assist customers in monitoring the performance of their individual securities. This analysis may include municipal securities ratings, prepayment speeds on mortgage-backed securities, Treasury or Agency securities reports, or stress tests for structured notes. Reports are standardized and may be received monthly or quarterly.
Through this service, the Seattle Bank provides an analysis of a financial institutions balance sheet sensitivity to interest rate movements. Using a computer simulation, the Seattle Bank can forecast net interest income and the market value of portfolio equity under several interest rate scenarios. Institutions can use the analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of their asset/liability management and monitor the effectiveness of a particular strategy. This service also helps institutions meet reporting requirements of regulators and boards of directors.
Securities Safekeeping and Trust Services
The Seattle Bank delivers custody, settlement and pledging services in a highly efficient and integrated cash management environment. Securities Safekeeping and Trust Services provides:
- safekeeping for customers securities; trade settlement processing for all Federal Reserve book-entry, depository-eligible and physical securities;
- third-party trust services to collateralize public funds deposits, jumbo deposits or other financial agreements;
- and comprehensive reporting on all securities safekeeping and trust activity.
Fees for these services are based on trading activity, not portfolio size.