Research Consultant; Assets

Research Consultant (Real Assets) Location - London with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 60%)
LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Investment Consulting department as a Research Consultant (Real Assets). 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.

As a Research Consultant, you'll drive research into real-asset strategies and their managers, your key responsibilities will be to:

• 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

• 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
• Professional qualification in investment, finance…