Location
London with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a minimum of 60%)

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
Not specified

About the Role
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). Our 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 will drive research into real-asset strategies and their managers. Your key responsibilities include:
- Researching Real Assets investment products offered by investment managers
- Providing clear, well-justified recommendations on the suitability of fund management products for use by our clients
- Identifying emerging trends and market opportunities in the real estate and infrastructure sectors and assessing their potential impact on client portfolios and investment strategies
- Collaborating closely with client-facing teams, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of research efforts with overall client aims
- Maintaining strong relationships with industry experts, peers, and other external sources to gather valuable market intelligence and stay ahead of industry trends
- Producing high-quality research reports, whitepapers, and other thought leadership materials to enhance the firm's market presence and credibility
- Researching approaches and providers of services (e.g. brokers, platforms) to sell funds on the secondary market
- Researching other ways for investors to raise liquidity from their illiquid assets
- Conducting investment manager research and formulating views on investment managers’ capabilities across assigned asset classes
- Attending regular in-person research meetings and internal discussions
- Identifying funds and managers that require researching
- Leading or contributing to research meetings with managers through planning, interviewing, analysis, and proposing recommendations
- Producing high quality written and presentational materials to communicate views to client-facing consultants and clients
- Supporting clients on the appropriate design of Real Assets strategies that meet their investment objectives
- Conducting operational due diligence reviews on fund management companies in line with LCP’s processes
- Conducting reviews of fund documentation
- Ensuring recommendations on managers’ products are justified with well-documented data and logical, consistent arguments
- Reviewing work done by others, including detailed checks and overall reasonableness assessments

Benefits
Join a certified B-Corp, multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people-first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be. Our benefits package is designed to promote your overall wellbeing so you can perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Core benefits include:
- Hybrid working (minimum 60% remote)
- Professional study support (where applicable)
- Access to internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks
- Life assurance and income protection
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time) plus bank holidays, with options to buy and sell holiday
- Private medical insurance
- Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through flexible benefits
- Eye care vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Digital GP services
- Competitive pension scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- High street discounts
- Season ticket loans
- Volunteering opportunities
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)
And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation. LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and welcomes discussions about adjustments to support your application process.

Experience
- 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, including metrics and techniques used

About you
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, including the ability to present persuasively and debate your views
- Strong time management and delegation skills to manage variable and sometimes high workloads
- Good Excel, data-processing and project management skills

Qualifications
- Professional qualification in investment, finance or surveying (preferable)