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About the Role

LCP's Investment Consulting practice is widely recognised for delivering rigorous, independent advice. We partner with a broad range of clients from pension schemes and central banks to charities and insurers helping them achieve their investment goals. At the heart of what we do is in-depth fund-manager research and analysis, giving clients the insight they need to select the right managers and maximise long-term returns.

Responsibilities

Drive research into real-asset strategies and their managers.
Research Real Assets investment products offered by investment managers.
Provide clear, well justified recommendations on the suitability of fund management products for use by our clients.
Identify emerging trends and market opportunities in the real estate and infrastructure sectors, and assess their potential impact on client portfolios and investment strategies.
Collaborate closely with client-facing teams, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of research efforts with overall client aims.
Maintain strong relationships with industry experts, peers, and other external sources to gather valuable market intelligence and stay ahead of industry trends.
Produce high-quality research reports, whitepapers, and other thought leadership materials to enhance the firm's market presence and credibility.
Research approaches and providers of services (eg brokers, platforms) to sell funds on the secondary market.
Research other ways for investors to raise liquidity from their illiquid assets.
Conduct investment manager research and formulate views on investment managers’ capabilities across asset classes to which you’re assigned.
Attend regular in-person research meetings and internal discussions.
Identify funds and managers that require researching.
Lead or contribute to research meetings with managers through the planning of meetings, interviewing, analysis and proposing recommendations.
Produce high quality written and presentational materials to communicate our views to client-facing consultants and clients.
Support clients on the appropriate design of Real Assets strategies that meet their own investment objectives.
Conduct operational due diligence reviews on fund management companies in-line with LCP’s processes.
Conduct reviews of fund documentation.
Ensure the recommendations on managers’ products can be justified: data and decisions are well documented; arguments and views are logical and consistent.
Review work done by others, including both detailed checks and a check for overall reasonableness.

Requirements

Several years of Real Assets experience in a manager research or asset management role at an investment consultancy, wealth manager, family office, fund-of-funds or in-house asset-owner.
Experience and knowledge of Real Assets and investment strategies.
Experience in assessing environmental and social impacts of real estate and infrastructure investments; and experience of metrics and techniques used.
Excellent presentation and communication skills including and ability to present persuasively and debate your views.
Time management and delegation ability, to juggle variable, sometimes high workloads.
Good Excel, data-processing and project management skills.

Skills

Real Assets
Investment strategies
Environmental and social impact assessment
Presentation
Communication
Persuasion
Debate
Time management
Delegation
Excel
Data processing
Project management

Location

London

Work Type

Hybrid working

Experience Level

Several years of experience

Education Level

Professional qualification in investment, finance or surveying (preferrable)

Benefits

Hybrid working
Professional study support
Access to internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
Life assurance
Income protection
Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave
26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays
Options to buy & sell holiday
Private medical insurance
Discounted gym memberships
Critical illness insurance
Dental insurance
Eye care vouchers
Cycle to work scheme
Digital GP services
Competitive pension scheme
Discretionary bonus scheme
High street discounts
Season ticket loans
Volunteering opportunities
Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

About the Company

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics.
Certified B-Corp, multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation.

Equal Opportunity

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.
LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss how we can support you with your application.