Specific scheme sponsor advice from our pensions consulting team

For many companies, their defined benefit pension scheme is a legacy arrangement that comes with multiple challenges, including increasing life expectancy, volatility in financial markets and increasing regulation. This means companies need a strategy that manages risk, controls costs and ensures it achieves its endgame.

Mercer’s corporate pension advisory service supports companies to manage these challenges. We can create a long-term plan for these schemes, ensuring the right actions are taken at the right time to effectively and efficiently meet the company’s goals and those if its other stakeholders. 

Areas of advice for companies with defined benefit pension schemes include:

• Accounting for pension costs
• Risk transfer
• Captives
• Investment strategy
• Member options exercises
• Longevity
• Consolidation in all forms
• Master trusts
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Non cash options/ security

Companies want to attract and retain employees in order to thrive and their pension scheme can be a great tool to help. Whether a company wants to reinvigorate its existing pension scheme offering, or is considering a new pension scheme arrangement for its people, our corporate pension advisory service can help.

We advise companies on the right pension approach for them and their current employees. Ensuring they maintain a competitive pension scheme for their current and future employees.