Private Clients and Asset Management
The Private Clients and Asset Management Group Division, or PCAM, comprises Deutsche Bank’s investment management business for both private and institutional clients, together with our traditional banking activities for private individuals and small and medium-sized businesses. PCAM consists of two Corporate Divisions: Asset and Wealth Management and Private & Business Clients.
Asset and Wealth Management
Asset and Wealth Management comprises the Asset Management and Private Wealth Management Business Divisions.Asset Management
Asset Management comprises four major businesses: retail, in which DWS Investments serves the needs of individual investors and retirement accounts; institutional, in which DB Advisors manages assets for clients such as pension funds, corporations, sovereign wealth funds and governments; insurance, in which Deutsche Insurance Asset Management concentrates on the investment and advisory needs of insurance companies; and alternatives, led by RREEF, one of the world’s largest real estate investment managers. Furthermore, we are active in other alternative areas through DB Climate Change Advisors, DB Private Equity and RREEF Infrastructure.
Private Wealth Management
Private Wealth Management (PWM) serves high net worth individuals and families worldwide. It provides these very discerning clients with a fully-integrated wealth management service, including inheritance planning and philanthropic advisory services.
Private & Business Clients
Private & Business Clients (PBC) provides a full range of traditional banking products, including current accounts, deposits and loans, and investment management and pension products mainly to private and self-employed individuals, and small to medium-sized businesses. Outside Germany, PBC has for years operated in Italy, Spain, Belgium and Portugal, and for some years now in Poland. We are also making focused investments in the fast-growing Chinese and Indian markets.
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Private & Business Clients
Deutsche Bank’s Private & Business Clients Corporate Division (PBC) provides branch banking and financial services to private customers, self-employed clients as well as small and medium-sized businesses internationally. We hold the leading position in our home market, Germany. PBC’s product range includes payment and current account services, investment management and retirement pension planning, mutual funds and securities, as well as loans to individual private clients and businesses.
PBC operates 2,860 branches in Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, India and China, thereof 1,108 Postbank branches. In addition, PBC works with independent financial advisors and leverages the sales potential through cooperation agreements, e.g. with the financial services division of Spain’s postal service, Correos. In some countries, for example, Germany and Poland, our market presence comprises multiple brands.
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Private Wealth Management
Our Private Wealth Management (PWM) Business Division is a world-leading wealth manager with tailored financial services for wealthy clients, trusts and foundations as well as select institutional investors. We completed the acquisition of Sal. Oppenheim in March 2010, further strengthening our position in Europe and our now undisputed market leadership in Germany. Nearly 4,600 employees at 109 locations in 30 countries provide coverage to our demanding clientele.
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DB Advisors
DB Advisors is the fiduciary institutional investment management business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. We offer a broad range of investment strategies
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DB Private Equity
DB Private Equity develops co-mingled and specialized funds-of-funds for institutional clients. The offering includes dedicated buyout, mezzanine, venture funds-of-funds and secondary funds across multiple vintage years as well as a diversified portfolio across managers, number of companies, industries and geographies.
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DWS Investments
DWS Investments is the mutual fund arm of Deutsche Asset Management, being with more than EUR 150 bn. the largest mutual fund company in Germany*, with EUR 199 bn. AuM number four of the leading retail mutual fund companies across Europe** and with EUR 288 bn. within the top 10 globally***.
Founded in 1956, DWS’s activities span not only Europe. Over the last few years, the DWS Investments brand has been rolled out to cover countries and products across the Americas and Asia Pacific.
* BVI, January 31; including Deutsche Bank products
** Lipper FMI, December 31, 2010; including Deutsche Bank products
*** Lipper FMI (Europe), Simfund (US, Asia Australia); December 31, 2010. European figures including Deutsche Bank products
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DWS Investments (US)
In the US, DWS Investments represents the retail activities of Deutsche Bank’s worldwide asset management operation – a truly global force with extensive resources and a unique perspective. This international network enables us to identify market trends at an early stage and swiftly translate them into investment ideas – an ability few others can offer. By bringing the right product to market at the right time, DWS Investments is committed to turning current market conditions into investment opportunities.
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RREEF
RREEF Alternative Investments is the global alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division. RREEF Alternative Investments consists of three businesses: Real Estate, Infrastructure and Private Equity. Headquartered in New York, RREEF Alternative Investments employs more than 1,300 investment professionals in 16 cities around the world to help investors meet a wide range of objectives: from diversification, to preservation of capital, to long-term performance.
Named one of the world’s largest alternative investments managers in Global Investor / Watson Wyatt’s Alternative Survey, June 2008, RREEF has €53.3 billion in assets under management worldwide as of 31 December 2008.
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X-markets
X-markets is targeted at the development, trade and promotion of structured investment products. These products include options, knock-outs, certificates and managed funds.
All major asset classes, such as stocks, pensions, loans and natural resources, are covered.
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Sustainable products and services
As we examine the global economy, it becomes apparent just how widespread the business opportunities are in the climate change sector. Companies and investors are quickly realizing that climate change is not merely a social, political, or moral issue – it is an economic and business issue as well. This is translating into a wave of investment and innovation. Deutsche Bank helps you to invest in these business opportunities with numerous products.
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Banking on Green
As a global corporate citizen we take responsibility in the fight against global warming and improve our eco-balance goal orientedly. more