Fund Charges Database
FITZ Partners delivers quarterly refreshed datasets of consistent fund fee calculations based on funds audited accounts. Each share class offers a unique disclosure of detailed operating expenses, including Management, Administration, Custody, Distribution, Audit, Professional, Custody Handling/Transaction, Performance, Brokerage, Securities Lending fees, Subsidy and Other Expenses.
Unique source of fund fees and expenses for cross-border and UK funds. Our data enables detailed and comprehensive fee analysis of any fund product or share class, including several levels of ‘Clean’ classes, as well as those not disclosing any Ongoing Charge Figures or TERs in marketing documents, such as ‘dedicated’ or ’internal’ share classes.
High-quality data
The FITZ fund charges database is an indispensable management tool and offers clients access to over 246,000 fee calculations at the share class level, covering 303 promoters and 31 third-party management companies. Clients can benchmark their fee structures with consistent fee data on your competitors, allowing them to establish fund pricing strategies, including share class creation by distribution channel.
The FITZ fund charges databases help improve market intelligence and review current industry practices, providing our clients with all the necessary tools to make informed investment decisions.
Unrivalled access
The FITZ Fund Charges Databases are comprehensive resources of fund share class fees, with unique and detailed fund share class fees available right on your desktop, organised into three separate windows for easy access.
The first window, Table, displays all our fees at the share class level, color-coded for better readability. The colours represent the position of the fees compared to weighted averages of all similar share classes, including share type, asset class, and investment area.
The second window, Statistics, provides instant delivery of weighted means and medians for all fee categories based on your chosen filters, such as share type, asset class, and investment area.
The third window, Details, offers a printable FITZ Fees Fact Sheet for any fund, providing a comprehensive list of all fee-related details for a given share class. For example, Asset Class, Investment Area, Share Class Type, ISIN, Average Net Assets (US$) and many other details of each share class.
International Fund Charges database
Content & Coverage – 209 promoters and management companies of Luxembourg and Ireland domiciled funds are included in the International Fund Charges.
UK Fund Charges database
Content & Coverage – 157 fund promoters & and management companies of UK domiciled funds are included in the UK Fund Charges.
Useful for
The FITZ Fund Charges database service offers a range of features to help clients easily access and analyse data, including a filtering feature that allows quick and precise filtering, an extract feature that enables clients to download filtered data as a spreadsheet, and a search feature that allows clients to quickly find specific funds using ISIN codes, fund names, or part of fund names.
The FITZ Fund Charges database filtering feature allows for quick and precise filtering of data by various parameters such as share class types, fee structures, products, promoters, asset class, investment area, domicile, minimum investment, and more. This feature enables clients to easily sort through a vast amount of data and find the specific fee related information they require.
Once the desired data has been filtered, the FITZ Fund Charges database extract feature allows clients to easily download all the details returned after filtering as a spreadsheet. This feature enables clients to further analyse the data and create customised reports.
In addition to filtering, the FITZ Fund Charges database search feature allows clients to search for specific funds using ISIN codes, fund names, or part of fund names. This provides clients with a quick and efficient way to find the information they need without having to sort through large amounts of data.
HOW WE WORK
Our Proven Methodology involves FITZ fee calculations that take into account all fees disclosed in audited financial statements, ensuring that our data is of the highest quality. All fees are calculated and verified internally by the FITZ Partners team to ensure accuracy, and our meticulous fund-by-fund calculation provides unique fee breakdowns at the share class level. With a consistent calculation methodology, our data allows easy comparison across competitors, asset classes, and domiciles. We use this data internally to create peer groups and build detailed regulatory reporting for our clients Assessment of Value and ESMA Supervisory Briefing on the supervision of costs in UCITS and AIFs and subsequent NCA requests and more recently, UK Consumer Duty.
Fund Fees & Expenses
The Benchmarking Experts in Europe
FITZ Partners has been providing unrivalled fund fees & charges data and benchmarking expertise to the European asset management industry for over 10 years. We support over 60 European and global Asset Managers by delivering detailed and independent fund fee data and fund value reporting. Our specialist team in London is dedicated to providing best-in-class client service and offering leading industry expertise in fund costs, peer group construction and fund value benchmarking.