Adviser review, selection and implementation

Adviser review, selection and implementation

Are you confident your pension scheme advisers are delivering effective high quality services and good value for money?

Striking the right balance between achieving good pension governance and containing pension scheme costs by ensuring advisers are delivering value for money is just one of the many demands faced by pension trustees and pension managers.

Our adviser review, selection and implementation services are unique. We are a knowledge leader as our ‘day job’ professional pension trustee and scheme secretary expertise means:

  • we know what really makes a difference
  • we know what high quality looks like in practice
  • we know what good value for money really means

Adviser benchmarking

Adviser benchmarking

A quick and cost-effective way to compare the service pension trustees are receiving and fees they are paying against market practice. Our independent, fixed fee benchmarking reviews provide clear, objective information to enable you to decide whether you’re receiving a value for money service. The results will enable you to decide whether to stay with your current pension adviser, make improvements to their service or proceed to a full market review.

Full market adviser review

Full market adviser review

Our effective full adviser review service comes without the time-consuming hassle typically associated with tenders. From start to finish, we manage an adviser review which is:

  • designed to match your needs with the right advisers
  • free from conflicts of interest
  • completely flexible
  • performed for a fixed fee

The benefits of our unique approach

The benefits of our unique approach

We run tenders for advisers on behalf of pension trustee boards (whether or not we’re appointed as professional trustee or scheme secretary). We know the right questions to really probe pension providers.
To maximise the benefit to you, we share:

  • data from our unique, in-depth database of pension adviser firms – covering their staff, clients, systems, services, fees, approach, technology etc
  • practical, ‘day job’ understanding of how specific pension advisers work with pension trustees and pension scheme sponsors
  • what good likes – developed from our professional insight of working as independent trustees and trustee secretary for similar pension schemes

Our streamlined process combines objective data from our unique database (kept up to date by the advisers themselves), practical knowledge of working with and our subjective assessment from extensive experience of a wide universe of pension scheme advisers.

Our streamlined process combines objective data from our unique database (kept up to date by the advisers themselves), practical knowledge of working with and our subjective assessment from extensive experience of a wide universe of pension scheme advisers.

We can guide you through the selection process, providing assessment methods and score sheets and managing presentation days and handle as much (or as little) of the implementation process as you’d like us to where a new provider is selected.

Meet our adviser review specialists…