Fiduciary oversight

Impartial, comprehensive fiduciary oversight expertise brings peace of mind that you’re getting the best out of your arrangements.

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What is fiduciary management?

Fiduciary management is when trustees delegate certain investment decision-making powers to a third party. This could include selecting investment managers or asset allocation decisions.

It’s grown in popularity over recent years: recent data suggests that over 900 UK pension schemes (17%) currently use some form of fiduciary management.

Pension scheme challenges

Choosing the right governance and the right fiduciary manager, and making sure they’re performing as expected, is challenging. 

To deliver on your pension’s promise you need have good oversight, with a clear framework for monitoring your manager’s ongoing suitability. We can help. 

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How we help

We don’t compete with fiduciary managers, but we do excel at working with them.

Our fiduciary oversight service is more than a manager selection exercise with performance reviews. If you need to get up-to-speed on the basics, we run training sessions. We help set objectives to make sure your fiduciary mandate fits your needs and provide ongoing oversight to keep managers on track.

Our work draws on our independent heritage. With over 100 investment consultants across our firm, we deal with the same issues as fiduciary managers, though in an advisory context. That means we know their business well. We know how to ask the right questions, of the right people, at the right time.

Our clients like the clarity we bring. We help them understand what drives risk and return, where the fiduciary manager has been successful, when the client retains decision-making and when it has been delegated.

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Welcome to our podcast

This episode of Hymans Robertson On... is the first of a two-part series exploring stewardship from a fiduciary manager’s perspective.

We look at how fiduciary managers decide engagement priorities, whether bespoke engagement is really possible for clients with different priorities and if divestment creates good outcomes.

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