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The Isio Offering

We provide companies, trustees and individuals with the highest levels of expertise across our core pensions business. These include Actuarial & Consulting and Pensions Administration as well as our complementary services: Investment Advisory, Reward & Benefits and Wealth Planning.

Introducing Isio

Isio was ‘born’ in 2020 and we’ve been challenging existing thinking on pensions, benefits and investment advice ever since. Leading us to grow today into one of the UK’s largest pensions advisory businesses.

Our heritage gives us a unique edge with a more dynamic approach to problem-solving – and a stronger focus on strategic planning than more traditional trustee advisers. Our mix of trustee and corporate clients means we are used to looking at problems from different perspectives - and reaching solutions from new angles.

Our recent acquisitions of Premier and Deloitte Total Reward & Benefits have further improved our offering to clients, and now allow us to better connect all your challenges into one conversation.

Working with you as your strategic adviser, we guarantee you advice that’s clear, well conceived – and often bold. Our aim being to build a long-lasting partnership with you, based on trust and success.

 

 

Isio in numbers

1,000 professionals located across 10 offices nationwide

1 in 3 companies from the FTSE 100 advised

Advisers to 400 trustee boards  

Over £400bn of assets in DB schemes advised  

Over £25bn of assets in DC schemes advised 

Over £1.6bn in wealth advisory 

Actuarial & Consulting

Actuarial & Consulting sits at the heart of our advice offering, and how we help you achieve greater success.

Whether you need a scheme actuary, strategic adviser or subject-matter expert, you’ll find our thinking refreshingly different. Our actuaries and consultants bring strong track records of helping trustees, employers and other stakeholders achieve positive change. With an enviable history of innovation, we have driven developments across pensions that reduce risk exposure, improve efficiency and strengthen finances.

Trustees and employers in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors benefit from our strengths in innovation, across everything from financing strategies to enhancing the operations and digitisation of pensions.

Pensions Administration

We believe that by combining the human touch with state-of-the-art tech, we deliver the best possible experience for each and every member on their road to retirement, and beyond.

Our approach removes friction, risk and complexity across the entire journey. Not just for members, but also for trustees, sponsors – and our teams.

Our zero-error solutions are made possible, not only by our experienced teams, but by our powerful proprietary technology and automated calculations. Together, they create a faster, more accurate, service for everyone.

Investment Advisory

We provide clients with a distinctly different approach, designed to drive value and certainty.

Our independence means you’ll receive a bespoke solution, not one off the shelf. Our team of in-house researchers and investment strategists will find the right investment solution for you. If it doesn’t exist, we’ll work with investment managers to create a new fund or mandate that is.

To stay close to the markets our research team is split into specialist teams focusing on Credit, Equity, LDI, ESG, Multi-Asset, Real Assets and Fiduciary Management.

We also have a market-leading reputation for advising clients on ESG, helping you identify new sustainable opportunities, assess investment managers’ ESG capabilities and monitor key ESG risks.

Reward and Benefits

We support our clients across the whole spectrum of reward and benefits, from strategic design to procurement, communication, administration and financial coaching. And while we are known for our expertise in DC pension design and governance, our depth extends across the full range of rewards and benefits, including healthcare, life insurance and flexible benefits.

As a business, we are independent and autonomous. So, our team are free to source solutions relevant to both employers and employees from the whole of the market. We don’t have a catalogue of off-the-shelf products. Instead, we draw on our experience to devise hard-working bespoke solutions that tangibly impact both employee recruitment and retention over time.

Wealth Planning

Our highly respected advice team provides independent, progressive financial advice.

The financial needs we address vary from members at retirement, to higher-earning employees needing advice on managing their money holistically – and to groups having to make complex choices about issues such as pension increase exchange or switching schemes.

In addition, demand has led us to develop a range of specialist offerings: Our Member Advice Team, our Wealth Planning Service and our Private Client Service, a premier service for clients with more complex needs.

To enable better client outcomes we’ve developed our own market-leading technology, high-spec dashboards, modelling systems and apps for scheme members to improve their financial wellbeing.

Administration Provider of the Year 2022/2023

DB Consolidator of the Year 2022

Group Risk Consultant of the Year 2022

Isio Fusion: Software of the Year 2022

Best Environmental Impact Thought Leadership 2022

Clear conviction

Our clients want clear and bold opinion from Isio. We deliver that with clarity and personality. We believe in straightforward communication and collaboration – with each other and with our clients

Our purpose

Our purpose is to create better outcomes for clients, their members and society by empowering and developing our people.

We want our work to benefit the companies and trustees we work with, and their employees and members, to contribute positively to our industry, to enable the people who work for us to flourish and to recognise the combined power of unique individuals.

Focused on our futures

We’re determined to play an active role in our industry, ensuring that the voices of the communities we represent are heard, pushing for positive change and solving problems in innovative ways for the mutual gain of our clients and society.