Cash-Equivalent Funds for European Corporates and Institutions
Exclusive Partners advises corporate treasurers and institutional investors on short-dated funds and a dedicated range of cash-equivalent fund solutions designed for surplus liquidity. Recommendations are tailored to the organisation’s liquidity profile, investment horizon and return objectives, ensuring that cash allocation reflects its specific investment needs.
Short-Dated & Cash-Equivalent Funds
Short-dated funds offer corporations and institutions a short-term investment solution for surplus liquidity, combining capital preservation, daily liquidity and income generation.
They primarily invest in high-quality, short-dated instruments such as bank deposits and treasury bills.
Short-term European Money Market Funds are subject to a dedicated regulatory framework governing eligible assets, maturity, diversification and liquidity requirements.
Cash-equivalent funds provide an alternative or complement to traditional bank deposits, offering highly liquid investment solutions designed for surplus liquidity.
Structured to your objectives
As an ACPR-regulated intermediary, Exclusive Partners works with leading financial institutions across Europe to provide access to competitive offers aligned with your requirements.
Understanding your needs
Our team works with you to determine the most suitable and advantageous solutions, based on your investment profile and priorities – whether you’re aiming to enhance yield, protect capital or optimise your hedging.
Selecting, negotiating & tailoring
We leverage our relationships with leading financial institutions to design and negotiate tailored investment solutions that meet your organisation’s specific requirements, from payoff structures and technical features to underlying assets. Through independent pricing and expert advice, Exclusive Partners helps identify the most relevant opportunities and secure competitive market conditions.
Monitoring your investment
Our team hedges the chosen product, supervises settlement between your custodian bank and the issuer, and monitors its performance throughout the investment cycle until maturity – facilitating secondary market adjustments when necessary and providing regular updates and reporting.
Why choose Exclusive Partners?
Working with Exclusive Partners gives you access to investment products tailored to your criteria and monitored throughout their lifecycle.
ACPR-regulated since 2010 with EU passporting rights across 10+ countries, we operate in multiple European markets with clients managing capital across various jurisdictions. As an independent regulated investment advisory firm with no banking affiliation, our recommendations are driven by your interests.
From day one, you are supported by a dedicated team that handles the entire operational workflow, from structuring your product with the issuer to delivering institutional documentation. You also have online access to monitor your investment portfolio in real time.
As an ACPR-regulated investment firm with EU passporting rights, we advise corporate and institutional clients across multiple jurisdictions and provide seamless access to an international network of financial institutions.
Our team of financial engineers works directly with issuers to customise product payoffs to your specific investment objectives. Over the last 16 years, Exclusive Partners has advised on more than 27 billion euros of assets.
As an independent regulated investment advisory firm, we work with an extensive network of financial institutions, negotiating optimal conditions and making recommendations based on your requirements.
Explore your structured product solutions
Whether you need to sharpen your hedging or make your corporate portfolio more diverse, our team provides recommendations and helps structure investment products to your requirements. Set up a call with one of our advisors to find out more about the different options available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cash-equivalent funds provide an alternative or complement to traditional bank deposits, offering highly liquid investment solutions designed for surplus liquidity.
Structured with leading global financial institutions and asset managers, these funds aim to deliver enhanced returns while maintaining the characteristics required for cash-equivalent treatment.
The range has developed significantly since launch:
- 5 years of track record
- 17 fund vintages launched
- $11.1 bn in assets under management
Exclusive Partners gives clients access to a range of cash-equivalent funds, offering greater choice in how surplus liquidity is invested.
Holding excess cash in an operating account can create a significant opportunity cost and erode its value over time. Investing surplus liquidity can provide additional return potential while preserving the level of liquidity and risk appropriate to the organisation’s treasury requirements.
Solutions may include term deposits, short-dated funds and cash-equivalent funds, depending on the intended use and investment horizon.
Exclusive Partners has more than 16 years of experience advising corporate and institutional clients. We are authorised by the French ACPR (Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution) under authorisation number 19173, and our clients include two-thirds of the CAC 40 companies as well as companies represented in the Euro Stoxx 50.
No. While these funds are generally designed to preserve capital, maintain liquidity and limit volatility, invested capital is not necessarily guaranteed. The level and nature of risk depend on the underlying fund and investment structure.
An effective approach is to combine different investment solutions according to the organisation’s liquidity needs, investment horizon and risk parameters. These may include term deposits, short-dated funds and cash-equivalent funds.
Depending on the applicable tax framework, capitalisation contracts for corporate entities may also provide additional opportunities for the investment and tax treatment of surplus liquidity.
