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Fiduciary Management Report: Going for growth

Looking for research to help with your responsibilities as a pension trustee? Explore our latest fiduciary report, covering the issues trustees are facing today and how they are meeting them.
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Read our exclusive report and gain access to research on the changing landscape for professional pension trustees. It explores funding targets, the strategic direction of pension schemes, while examining the state of recruitment and retention.
 

This report was developed with Censuswide in Summer 2024:

  • How investment priorities are changing
  • How trustees are setting funding targets.
  • How trustees are managing the endgame for pension funds
  • The state of recruitment and retention for trustees
  • The appetite among trustees for LDI and fiduciary management
Pension trustees

Research at a glance

Going for growth: with many schemes now in surplus, there is greater flexibility for schemes to deliver better returns and reduce funding requirements from sponsors.

74% of trustees

across all schemes say long-term funding targets have not yet been set - a new funding code, a new government with a new agenda, plus market shifts may be holding them back.

 

75% of trustees said

The talent crisis remains an ongoing concern, but three quarters of trustees (75%) said that the number of independent professional trustees will grow over the next year 
 

65% of trustees

say the LDI crisis has made them more likely to adopt fiduciary management for their schemes

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