Executive Summary

This report includes trends on investment consultants and fiduciary managers in the U.K. institutional marketplace. Review the market position of leading consulting providers, preferred consultant fee structure, along with other fiduciary management trends.

Methodology

Greenwich Associates’ 30th annual U.K. institutional investor research is based on in-depth interviews conducted in the first quarter of 2017 with 397 interviews of the largest institutional funds in the United Kingdom.

These institutional investors are U.K. corporate funds, local authorities and other institutional funds each with over £100 million in total defined benefit plan assets, defined contribution plan assets, or other institutional assets.

  • 303 corporate pension funds
  • 60 local authority pension funds
  • 34 other institutional funds, including non-corporate or local authority pension funds, charities, endowments, and insurance companies