DC advisors and platforms

DC advisors and platforms

Through its Defined Contribution Investment‑Only (DCIO) group, Macquarie Asset Management maintains selling and service agreements with more than 70 leading third‑party retirement platforms, including retirement plan recordkeepers, clearing and trading platforms, and administrators.

Macquarie Asset Management manages more than 25 equity and fixed income mutual funds across all asset classes, as well as collective trusts, available to retirement plan sponsors and participants. Qualified retirement plans that offer Macquarie Asset Management mutual funds may qualify for Class R6, Class A, Institutional Class, or Class R shares at net asset value (NAV).

Trail commission schedule by share class

Share class 12b-1 Shareholder servicing
fees paid to intermediaries
Commission schedule
Class R6
No No Do not pay commission.
Collective Investment Trusts
No No Do not pay commission.
Institutional Class
No Yes Do not pay commission.
Class A
Yes Yes Trail commissions begin immediately:
  • 0.25%
  • 0.15% for Delaware Limited-Term Diversified Income Fund.
Class R
Yes Yes Trail commissions begin immediately:
  • 0.50% for all funds.

Client types

Macquarie's Investment‑Only Group is a sales and service team that works with financial intermediaries including:

  • Clearing platforms
  • Certain DC-focused broker/dealers
  • Retirement recordkeepers
  • Third-party administrators
  • Custodians
  • Clearing trading
  • Bank trust
  • Variable annuities
  • Trust companies
  • Insurance products

Investment vehicles

Macquarie Asset Management manages mutual funds across a variety of share classes, variable insurance products, and collective investment funds. Our investment solutions are offered through a variety of intermediaries.

  • Collective investment funds
    SEI Trust Company and Macquarie Asset Management offer several collective trust funds designed to help meet the investment needs of our defined contribution clients. Please click here for more information.

The Macquarie Collective Investment Trust (the "Trust") offers trusts (the "Macquarie Investment Management Trusts") for the collective investment of assets or participating tax qualified pension and profit sharing plans and related trusts, and governmental plans as more fully described in its Declaration of Trust. As bank collective trusts, the Macquarie Investment Management Trusts are exempt from registration as investment companies. The Macquarie Investment Management Trusts are managed by SEI Trust Company (the "Trustee"), based on the investment advice of Delaware Investment Advisers, the investment adviser to the Macquarie Investment Management Trusts. The Trustee serves as the Trustee of the Trust and maintains ultimate fiduciary authority over the management of, and the investments made in, the Macquarie Investment Management Trusts. The Macquarie Investment Management Trusts are part of the Trust, which is operated by the Trustee. The Trustee is a trust company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and wholly owned subsidiary of SEI Investments Company (SEI).

Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Funds' prospectuses and their summary prospectuses, which may be obtained by visiting delawarefunds.com/literature or calling 800 266-3816. Investors should read the prospectuses and the summary prospectuses carefully before investing.

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal.

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