Investment
consulting
Helping you prioritize the
prominent investment challenges
We partner with you to guide your plan's fiduciaries in evolving your strategy, so that your funding and investment needs are addressed appropriately.


Tailored advice for your benefit
From asset allocation and fund manager selection to risk management and ongoing governance support – we understand that your world is complex.
We tailor our advice to your needs, to help your fiduciaries better govern your pension, ensuring improved results for your participants.

Putting your plan at the core
We believe that the best tools and solutions should be accessible to all plans we work with. You will have full access to our extensive investment and consulting expertise, which inform our advice on implementation through the managers that we regard as appropriate to the circumstances.
We partner with you to reach your goals
As experienced consultants committed to investment excellence, we provide proactive and relevant advice aimed at helping you:
- Set clear and measurable objectives
- Form a forward-looking plan for targeting the right level of return
- Ensure diversity across asset classes, regions and managers as appropriate
- Adapt to the prevailing market conditions
- Managing risk and taking opportunities when appropriate
- Selecting where there is a benefit from active management
We provide investment and transaction advice to DB and DC pensions in the US, as well as pensions and insurance firms in the UK. We work alongside you to:
- Understand your objectives and needs.
- Help you understand the risks you face and how these risks evolve over time
- Provide proactive and relevant advice on investment strategy, asset allocation and manager selection
- Evaluate and select appropriate managers to support your desired investment outcome, with full consideration for your environmental, social and governance requirements
- Select platform providers, administrators and communication specialists where required for DC pensions
- Provide ongoing education and training on all apsects of investment strategy and governance
- Monitor your strategy performance on an ongoing basis against the metrics that matter to you
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