Corporate advisory services
Our market leading corporate advisory team are a one-stop service covering all aspects of your retirement benefit strategy. Whether you’re managing legacy benefit promises or a future offering, we’ll support you at every stage of the employee benefit journey.
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Why Hymans?
Getting the retirement saving offering right is one of the biggest challenges for employers when setting an employee benefit strategy. It’s also vital to effectively managing any legacy defined benefit arrangements.
Whatever your challenges, wherever you are in your thinking, we can help you achieve better outcomes.
120 +
corporate UK clients
50 +
consultants
65 £bn+
of assets
How we help
Whether you need help with your defined contribution (DC) arrangements, defined benefit (DB) risk transfer transactions or want support to employee financial wellbeing, our award-winning, market-leading team can help.
As an independent partnership, we help build better financial futures for millions of people across the UK. Our independence means we always take the long-term view, prioritising our clients’ interests with impartial advice that adds real value.
We have many corporate sponsor and trustee clients, so we understand the trustee perspective and can work with them effectively.
Our services
Our fully integrated actuarial, investment, accounting and risk transfer teams mean no aspect of your DB strategy is missed. Our thought leadership and experience in endgame planning is second to none, whether your focus is on risk transfer, long term run-on or you’re still considering your options.
We work with employers to get the most value from their pension and benefit spend, so employees get better retirement outcomes. We help design pension and benefits packages that fit your corporate priorities and support your people throughout their pension scheme journey, up to and through retirement.
Any transaction involving pension schemes requires careful due diligence, a deep understanding of the regulatory environment and a clear strategy for the future. Our dedicated team means you can be confident nothing will be missed.
Successful risk transfer projects need advisers who know the market inside out. We’ve led over 100 transactions totalling more than £45bn, including 30+ transactions for pension schemes with FTSE 100 sponsors.
If you’re exploring emerging alternatives to traditional risk transfer, our specialists have deep insights on providers and the market, as well as practical experience – for example, we led the recent Clara transactions.
Our investment team advise both trustees and corporate clients, which is essential when you’re looking for realistic, balanced advice on your future investment strategy.
Whether you’re aiming for future buy-out, want to run-on to generate surplus, or are still considering your options, we offer investment services to help you develop, implement and monitor your strategy.
Our dedicated accounting, project management and governance teams can support you throughout any project.
We believe everyone should be able to access expert, professional help to get the most out of their money. That’s because financial wellbeing makes a real difference to people’s lives. Hymans Robertson Personal Wealth can support your people, from financial coaching to goal planning to financial advice.
Meet our team
Leonard Bowman
Partner and Head of Corporate Consulting
Sachin Patel
Head of Corporate DB Endgame Strategy
Hannah English
Head of DC Corporate Consulting
Ross Fleming
Co-Head of Private Sector DB Investment
James Mullins
Partner and Head of Risk Transfer Solutions
Richard Allen
Head of Workplace Distribution, Personal Wealth
Awards and accreditations
Explore our services
Explore our corporate services. Select 'view more' to see our full range of corporate services.
Pensions dashboards
Dashboards are fast becoming a reality, with the largest schemes due to connect from May 2025, and all schemes required to connect by the final connection date of October 2026.
Project and implementation management
Where do you start with large scale transformational change? When there are lots of moving parts to consider, it’s time to call on the experts.
DC plan effectiveness
We help employers run effective defined contribution pension and benefits arrangements that are right for employees.
Corporate DB
Our clear, simple and straightforward advice helps sponsors navigate a complex environment and achieve better outcomes.
Pensions accounting
Sometimes capital market volatility and fluctuations are unavoidable for companies sponsoring DB schemes.
Collective Defined Contribution Pensions
Collective defined contribution (CDC) presents an opportunity to deliver better pensions for millions of savers.
Related insights
Event
Creating a legacy: your role in building better pensions for all
We’re excited to announce our Pensions and Retirement Conference on Thursday 27 March 2025 at King’s Place, London.
Webinar
Exploring de-risking options to achieve your optimal strategy
Join us for our webinar where we will be exploring de-risking options to achieve your optimal strategy
Case study
Debenhams Pension Scheme transfers to Clara: a groundbreaking transaction
Debenhams Pension Scheme transfers to Clara: a ground breaking transaction
Blog
What the new funding code means for open DB schemes
We’re delighted that TPR’s new funding code includes a section dedicated to open schemes, and gives them funding and investment flexibility.
