Trustees and sponsors

LCP's investment team works with trustees and sponsors to ensure that they feel comfortable making investment decisions and that they understand the consequences using our innovative tools, award winning communication and manager research to deliver clear recommendations.

How we can help

We help pension scheme trustees:

• Define their investment objectives
• Understand how the sponsor's covenant can impact their investment choices
• Design and implement an investment strategy consistent with their objectives
• Define the Statement of Investment Principles
• Implement efficient governance structures
• Develop the working relationship with the sponsor

Changes to accounting regulations mean that pension scheme obligations represent a greater financial risk to sponsoring employers than ever before. If these risks are not properly controlled, they can negatively affect the sponsor's overall business performance.

Funding level volatility is strongly affected by the scheme's investment strategy. It appears directly on the sponsor's accounts and governs how much cash is ultimately required to fund the pension scheme.

Help for sponsoring companies - Understanding the impact

Our investment team works with companies to ensure that they understand the investment arrangements of their pension scheme. We can then help communicate the effect of the scheme investment policy on the sponsor to the trustees. By feeding in the sponsor's views at an early stage of the process, it enables the trustees to make an informed decision that reflects the views of both parties.

We understand that corporate sponsors have businesses to run. By using our real-time modelling tools in these situations, we can provide quick, efficient and effective advice. For example, by using our market leading buy-out knowledge we can help clients with the implementation of buy-in solutions.