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Manager Research

WTW helps institutional investors build portfolios that seek to deliver differentiated investment outcomes, both from a return and risk perspective. As an investment solutions provider with multi-asset capability and a fiduciary mindset, we focus on innovation and changing the investment industry for the better.

This requires a different approach to manager research. First we identify investment opportunities with an attractive risk adjusted return. We then partner with some of our highly rated asset managers to develop innovative products that suit our clients’ needs.

Our global scale allows us to carry out comprehensive research and engage directly with what we believe are leading asset managers in all major markets.

We specialise in finding, researching and monitoring the best asset management firms in the world. The primary aims of the manager research team are to:

  • Find best value added investment opportunities net of fees around the world and across all asset classes
  • Deliver best investment outcomes to our clients and sustain our long-term track record of outperformance
  • Focus on innovation and develop differentiated products in partnership with asset managers.
  • Ensure our best ideas inform our fiduciary management and investment solutions to deliver great outcomes for our clients

How our process is different:

  1. 01

    Identify and isolate

    Then we find the, specialist managers who we believe can execute on the investment opportunity. We do this by using proprietary technology to cover the full universe and free ing up our research analysts to identify, build exceptional depth of knowledge, and engage with asset managers which we believe are capable of delivering sustainably differentiated returns aligned with our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and culture selection criteria.

  2. 02

    Design

    playing to their particular strengths and maximising how it might fit with the rest of the portfolio.

  3. 03

    Value for money

    so clients can benefit from our scale and intellectual capital when creating new implementation options, all of which we pass through to our clients.

    Thinking Ahead Institute

    The Thinking Ahead Institute brings together the world’s major investment organizations to be at the forefront of changing the industry for the benefit of the end saver, through thought leadership research and innovation. Funded by WTW and member subscriptions, the Institute was established in January 2015 as a global not-for-profit group comprising asset owners, investment managers and service providers. As of May 2022, it has over 55 members with a combined responsibility for over US$16 trillion.

    Manager Research related capabilities

    Sustainable Investing

    Sustainable Investing is focused on helping to improve investment outcomes – seeking better returns and lower risk.

    Secure Income Asset Solutions

    Secure income assets are income-generating real asset investments that offer attractive liability-matching characteristics, and help you compete for traditional (and increasingly scarce) inflation-linked assets such as inflation-linked gilts.

    Funds and Strategies

    Our specialist funds and strategies help institutional investors of any asset size benefit from capital markets that are otherwise difficult to access or too expensive.

    Equity Solutions

    Multi-manager structure focusing on only the best stock ideas of our top-rated equity managers.

    Alternative Credit Solutions

    A solution that combines well researched specialist credit ideas, liquid and illiquid, delivering equity-like returns, with significantly reduced volatility.

    Multi-Asset Growth Solutions

    A multi-asset, multi-manager solution that accesses truly diversified exposures, implemented through specialist managers, to deliver robust long-term returns in all market conditions.

    Private Market Solutions

    Access to assets that are unavailable through listed vehicles may move your portfolio from good to great. Private markets offers investors expected long-term returns of +3% to 4% above listed equities.

    Liquid Diversifier Solutions

    Pooled and custom solutions that unbundles the return drivers from hedge funds, providing investors with access to liquid, diversifying returns at a competitive price.

    Investments

    Institutional investors require portfolios that are tailored to their goals, cost-effective and deliver strong returns with controlled risk. As a company with multi-asset capability and a fiduciary mindset, our investment professionals can help our clients to invest optimally, with a wider mission to change the way the investment industry operates.

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