
You need a partner that understands what it means to be in the funds business, someone who will support you throughout - from fund establishment, to helping you meet regulator requirements to servicing your investors day in, day out.
Our extensive capabilities include:And our global experience is hard to match:
Servicing U.S. registered funds since 1993
- Multi-class
- Multi-currency
- Multi-manager
- Manager of managers
- Fund of funds
- Master/feeder fund products
Servicing non-U.S. registered funds since 1990
We service the following array of funds from locations in the Channel Islands, Ireland, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom:
- Collective investment schemes
- Open and closed-ended funds
- UCITS I and III funds
- Non-UCITS funds
- Unit trusts
- OEICs
- Multi-manager funds
- Fund of funds
- Cash funds
- Multi-currency
- Multi-share class
- Structured products
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Michael E. Blake, CFA |

Mike leads Northern Trust’s business development efforts on behalf of the Global Fund Services and Insurance segments in North America. He is focused on delivering solutions to North American investment managers and insurance companies on behalf of their global custody, fund administration, and investment operations outsourcing needs on a global basis.
Mike began his career at Northern Trust in 1989 in Worldwide Operations and Technology serving the Large Corporate ERISA and institutional market segments. He spent several years away from Northern Trust consulting to retirement plan sponsors, developing and marketing enterprise level asset allocation and client servicing solutions for trust and retirement plan providers. Mike returned to Northern Trust in 2005.
Mike received a BS in Business Administration from Marquette University and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago. Mike is a CFA charterholder and member of the CFA Society of Chicago.
