Barnett Waddingham (BW) is a leading independent UK professional services consultancy with expertise across risk, pensions, investment and insurance.
Offering a full range of services to trustees, pension schemes and sponsors, BW provides tailored, pragmatic and proactive advice and support in all aspects of actuarial consulting, funding and investment strategy, pension scheme management, administration and endgame journey planning.
The freedom to take a long-term view supports the building of strong, trusted relationships for a wide range of clients, across the public and private sectors - including 25% of FTSE 100 and over 15% of FTSE 350 companies.
BW’s structure and ethos of independence empowers its 1,700+ people across nine offices to work with clients in a more personal way. Its experts look for new solutions and go beyond the expected to achieve more. BW’s flexible service delivers reliable, expert advice and solutions for every client.
BlackRock’s purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, we help millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. For additional information on BlackRock, please visit www.blackrock.com/corporate
Founded in 2000, Cardano is a privately-owned investment management and advisory business with a focus on risk and sustainability. Widely recognised as a market leader, our c. 550 professionals support pension schemes and other long-term savings organisations in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands to secure better, resilient, and more sustainable financial outcomes for savers, employers and wider society. Advisory: A pensions covenant, investment, sustainability, corporate finance and risk advisory business serving over 400 scheme and corporate clients. Our scheme clients have aggregated assets of over £400bn. Investment Management: A purpose-built investment management and fiduciary management provider, with a leading-edge sustainability offering, serving long-term savings clients and pension schemes, with risk management requirements. Cardano has over £40bn of assets under management and £32bn of assets under advice as at 31 December 2022. DC: We manage over £15bn in DC assets across the UK and the Netherlands. In the UK, we operate NOW: Pensions, an award-winning UK workplace pension provider, serving 2m members and tens of thousands of employers from a wide range of industry sectors.
Heywood’s technology-enabled solutions are driven by data and innovation. And our dedicated team is made up of genuine pension specialists. We bring unique technology solutions to your whole de-risking journey, allowing you to operate at maximum efficiency. Freeing you up to carry on with business as usual.
Heywood can help navigate you through all the checkpoints for a smooth and efficient de-risking journey including powerful data management, high speed benefit calculations and effective member communications. Using 70+ data sources covering 56.3 million UK adults, you can be assured our data cleansing and tracing services will provide you with the most up-to-date data for members.
Just Group are a leader in the defined benefit de-risking, lifetime mortgage and guaranteed income for life markets. We exist to help people achieve a better later life. We’ve been trusted by our customers to look after more than £23bn of their pension savings and we’ve helped them release more than £6.5 billion from their properties.
Our de-risking solutions recognise that every scheme is unique. Since entering the market in 2012, we’ve secured over £13bn of bulk annuity premiums, completed over 290 transactions and helped 70 schemes complete their buy-out. We’ve worked with many different sponsors – from FTSE100 companies to small family run businesses.
We want to help schemes of all sizes achieve certainty for their members.
The Punter Southall Pension Solutions business develops new products and solutions for pension schemes. We are currently introducing the Pension Safeguard Solution, a capital backed journey plan targeting buy-out, to the DB pension market. We are an agile team of experienced pension professionals focused on delivering innovative, practical solutions across defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. www.puntersouthall.com
Russell Investments is a global investment solutions firm with £233.4 billion in assets under management. We serve clients in 30 countries from 16 offices located in major financial centers in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region.
As a consultant to some of the world’s largest pools of capital, Russell Investments offers a comprehensive range of services through its advisory, asset management, and customised portfolio solutions businesses.
Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management, formerly known as Kempen Capital Management, is a specialist fiduciary manager. Our unified brand Van Lanschot Kempen reflects the strength of Kempen in Investment Management and Investment Banking, as well as Van Lanschot in Private Banking and Wealth Management.In the UK, VLK Investment Management provides fiduciary management services to pension scheme trustees and sponsoring employers, helping them execute their long-term strategies efficiently and target better outcomes for their scheme members. Our total fiduciary assets under management as at 30 September 2023 were £50 billion.