The Marsh Higher Education Specialists:
Helping Universities and their people thrive
Navigate a challenging pensions environment, and achieve better outcomes for you and your people
Pensions are at the forefront of the benefits conversation in the higher education sector, impacting both the financial responsibilities of employers and the advantages enjoyed by members.
With financial market volatility, shifting demographics, fluctuating costs and evolving regulations, the defined benefit landscape continues to develop – bringing uncertainty and opportunity in equal measure.
In this climate, pension scheme management has become a critical focus for Finance and HR departments.
Our team have deep experience in the higher education sector, and we provide a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored to meet every aspect of your pension needs across all major sector schemes (SATs, USS, LGPS, TPS, NHSPS), as well as across all aspects of defined contribution provision.
Improve your endowments investment strategy
Universities face several significant challenges regarding their endowment investment portfolios. An increasingly uncertain economic backdrop has led many clients to consider making changes to the risk/return profiles of their investment strategies.
Our innovative investment research, advice and solutions are customised to your organisation, and positioned to help you pursue better investment outcomes.
Whether you are an individual navigating the complexities of today’s financial world, or an employer looking to support your workforce on their financial journey, we have a team that can help you.
Mercer Private Wealth: Our expert financial planners can support you or your company’s employees at any stage of your financial journey. Some of the areas we can help with are, retirement planning, investments, protection, tax planning and redundancy counselling.
Financial wellbeing: Your employees face financial stresses that many are completely unprepared for. After more than a decade of low interest rates and subdued inflation, the cost of living crisis is taking a severe toll on people’s day-to-day and longer-term financial wellbeing. We can help design or measure the impact of your financial wellbeing programme as well as providing education, guidance or advice solutions on specific challenges.
Send your employees the link to the free Financial Wellbeing Employee Toolkit which can be accessed by you, your employees, friends and family.
The higher education sector is undergoing significant change. Institutions now need to think and act like businesses if they are to attract and retain the best talent. That means employee benefits must also evolve.
Risk and protection: Financial protection can ease your employees’ worries and let them focus on the job at hand. We can help implement life assurance, income protection, sick pay insurance and critical illness cover to give your people confidence that they will be looked after, should the face illness that affects their ability to work.
Health and benefits: We focus on promoting healthier lifestyles in your workforce by helping you design a benefits package tailored to your employees’ needs. This includes private medical insurance, health cash plans, health screenings, dental insurance policies and additional benefits to suit the specific requirements of your people. These might include access to virtual GPs, occupational health services and an employee assistance programme. We can help you manage employee benefits with ease, increase employee engagement and empower a culture of being well, together.
For 80 years, we’ve been helping our clients, colleagues and communities build the confidence to thrive, creating healthier and more sustainable futures.
Together, we’re helping our clients realise their investment objectives, shape the future of work, and enhance health and retirement outcomes for their people. We do this by meeting the needs of today and tomorrow. By understanding the data and applying it with a human touch. And by turning ideas into action to spark positive change.
Mercer is a Marsh business. Marsh (formerly Marsh McLennan) brings together market-leading, specialised capabilities across risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting—helping clients build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective.
For more information, visit Mercer | Welcome to brighter
Rebecca Dodd FIA C.Act
Partner, Head of Mercer’s Higher Education Group
Rebecca.Dodd@mercer.com
LinkedIn
0113 394 7675
Clarke Bedford FIA C.Act
Principal, Assistant Head of Mercer’s Higher Education Group
Clarke.Bedford@mercer.com
LinkedIn
0113 394 7673
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