Consulting
Investment
Strategy, market insight, tools, modellers, and performance monitoring for plans and their sponsors, covering both defined benefit and defined contribution provisions. We take the time to fully understand your long-term goals to ensure that our advice is tailored to your individual circumstances.
Innovative, proactive, and pragmatic, we help trustees to focus on the things that can really make a difference. And our clear way of communicating helps our clients to make quick but informed decisions.
In addition, Buck are signatories to the UK Stewardship Code, demonstrating high standards in supporting pension scheme trustees exercise their stewardship responsibilities.
Solutions
Echelon+ inclusive DB governance
Echelon+ inclusive DB governance
Echelon+ brings together the best of Buck’s award-winning trustee services, working as one solution, to help you reach your objectives quicker. Supported by centralised governance and independent oversight, our solution combines the efficiencies of a master trust with the retained ownership of your scheme’s strategic direction; and all for a single fixed fee.
Learn more : Echelon+ inclusive DB governanceInvestment governance solution
Providing trustees with the structure and process to manage and minimise governance involvement, decision-making, and investment strategy implementation – while maintaining control of your plan.
Cashflow centred investment
Cashflow centred investment is an intuitive plan investment strategy allowing for the timing of disinvestments. It looks under the bonnet at the size and incidence of actual cash flows, along with the investment strategy implications.
Stride™
Stride™
Our digital funding, investment, and risk monitoring application, Stride, provides trustees, sponsors, and consultants with access to key daily monitored actuarial, asset, and risk metrics and enables users to assess the risk metrics affecting the future journey of the plan.
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Fiduciary manager oversight
Fiduciary manager oversight
Through extensive and ongoing research, we’ve developed a deep understanding of how fiduciary managers operate. Looking at issues such as performance and risk, fee levels, and the suitability of the approach to your specific situation, we’ll work with you to ensure you’re receiving advice that’s best suited to your needs.
Learn more : Fiduciary manager oversightInvestment strategy and implementation
Our specialists offer advice on asset allocation, de-risking and risk management, liability-driven investment, and establishing journey plans. We also work with you to implement your investment strategy, including selecting managers and transferring assets.
Economic and market insight
Our dedicated research team helps trustees and sponsors understand the economic outlook, so you can make decisions and test strategies in this context. In addition, our team has an excellent track record of recommending managers that outperform their benchmark.
Investment performance monitoring
Supporting trustees in understand the performance of their assets and the underlying managers helps you make the right investment decisions for your plan.