Reasons to believe: time for fixed income
As interest rates drop and inflation cools, we assess the most promising segments of the fixed income market.
Defined Benefit Pension Schemes
Investing to meet your Long Term Funding Objective
Our approach
Broad investment expertise
Our scale and breadth of pension and insurance expertise spans all key asset classes, regions and markets to seek out the best investment opportunities for our defined benefit (DB) clients.
Whether you are looking to invest in fixed income, equities, private markets, real estate or multi asset, we offer a suite of solutions to meet your needs.
Bespoke solutions
Our solutions range from advising on strategic ‘buyout ready’ investment strategies or run-on strategies to generate surplus; to carrying out bespoke investment solution design work to allocate across liability driven investing (LDI) and credit to match cashflows and hedge interest rate and inflation risks.
We also offer fiduciary management and a DB master trust for clients who want to delegate full or partial responsibility for managing their pension scheme and its assets.
ESG analysis
We conduct environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into our investment research and use these insights as considerations in our decision-making process.
We also have a range of specialised funds that incorporate sustainable or ethical principles.
Our capabilities
Fixed income
- Complete range of local and global public funds
- Active or Buy & Maintain, segregated and pooled
- ESG and climate fund options
Buyout ready investing
- Tailored solutions to hedge buyout pricing
- Cashflow and credit spread capture through Buy & Maintain strategies
- Interest rate and inflation hedging options
- Bespoke offering through pooled or segregated structures
Private credit
- Multi asset or specialist private credit strategies
- Pooled or segregated across CRED, infrastructure debt, private placements, & fund financing
- Range of maturities, illiquidity premiums and structures
Real estate
- Suite of UK real estate solutions to meet your needs
- More secured long cash flow strategies such as Long Lease Fund and Ground Rent
- Climate and nature solutions
Diversified growth
- Diversified range of assets
- Broad range of alternative exposures
- Liquid framework
Global private markets
- Range of private credit and equity exposures
- Global exposure
- Pooled and seg offerings
Equities
- Broad coverage of global and local, active and passive, equity strategies
- Small cap range of funds
- ESG and climate range of options
Infrastructure equity
- Asset backed equity investments
- Inflation linkage
- Range of sectors
Money markets
- Suite of liquidity products to meet cash flow requirements
- Offering capital preservation, liquidity, diversification, competitive returns
- Embedded ESG
Our solutions
DB master trust
A professional governance framework to help your defined benefit pension scheme achieve its goals.
Fiduciary management
Providing your scheme with stronger governance, strategic journey planning and portfolio design and implementation.
Buyout ready investing
Offering a range of pooled funds or segregated strategies that allow solutions to be tailored to your needs, hedging insurer pricing and providing a seamless transition to buyout.
Sustainable investing
Providing a range of sustainable solutions designed to meet your financial goals and objectives.
Risk warning
The value of investments, and the income from them, can go down as well as up and an investor may get back less than the amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
Our defined benefits funds
LDI and B&M Credit
Real estate
Diversified growth & income
Global private markets
Contact us
If you would like to find out more about our DB pension scheme solutions, please get in touch with a member of the UK Institutional team at ukinstitutionalall@abrdn.com.
Our other investment solutions
Defined contribution solutions
We work in partnership with trustees, providers and consultants to deliver solutions for use in accumulation and decumulation retirement propositions.
Insurance solutions
We help insurers optimise their investment portfolio to achieve their asset yield, capital efficiency, and responsible investment objectives.
Local Government pension schemes
We collaborate with our LGPS clients to evolve, develop and create innovative investment solutions and structures to meet bespoke requirements.
Charities & Foundations
We combine access to specialist institutional capabilities with experienced charity insights to provide solutions to suit your needs.
Universities
We provide a full spectrum of capabilities for institutions looking for long-term growth, income generation, liquidity management, and ESG impact alongside financial returns.
Liquidity solutions
We offer a suite of liquidity products to meet your cash flow requirements with a primary focus on capital preservation, while also seeking to deliver competitive returns.