Risk and Financial Services

Investment

In extraordinary times, you need an extraordinary investment consultant to provide you with a competitive edge

Towers Watson Investment operates in 26 countries around the world and has over 500 dedicated investment consultants. We have a client base of over 1,000 of the world's leading institutional investors with assets of around $US2 trillion.

In Australia, we are the leading institutional investment consultant*, advising clients with funds under advice of around A$200 billion. We are proud to count several of Australia's largest and most innovative investors as our clients.

Why Towers Watson Investment?

  • Independence - We are not distracted or conflicted by running our own investment funds or master trusts. We work only for our clients.
  • Partnership and alignment - We build tailored solutions to help our clients meet (or exceed) their investment objectives. The success of our business depends critically on our ability to help our clients succeed, and to achieve and maintain a competitive edge.
  • Thought leadership and innovation - Innovation and thought leadership permeate our culture. We consistently and proactively bring leading edge and innovative ideas and opportunities to our clients, drawn from our extensive global practice.
  • Global scale - Our scale allows us to carry out in depth research of all asset classes and all managers in every market. It provides our clients with a competitive edge in the complex, ever-evolving global investment landscape.

* Source: Morningstar Investor Supermarket — March 2009

Towers Watson Investment—your trusted partner in an uncertain world

Our services include:

Establishing global best practice governance and decision-making structures
Setting investment objectives and risk tolerances
Designing member investment choice options
Developing medium-term and long-term strategic asset allocation structures
Developing investment management structures
Selecting investment managers
Monitoring investment performance

Why Towers Watson?

We work with more than 1,000 pension funds and institutional investors with assets in excess of US$2 trillion globally.

We pioneered many of the asset-liability modeling techniques used today.

Our consultants have proven success in researching and selecting investment managers across all investment classes, involving more than 100 investment consultants.

Towers Watson offers independent investment advice and has created processes to ensure there are no commercial compromises in our advice.