A defined contribution pension plan designed to benefit you and your employees
Implementing a defined contribution pension strategy
A defined contribution (DC) plan aims to minimise a firm’s exposure to the pension risk, long-term financial uncertainty and volatility that are inherent in traditional defined benefit (DB) plans. However, DC plans can be complex and burdensome, and bring new risks and responsibilities. As well as investments, employers need to consider governance, risk, member engagement and retirement readiness.
Building your optimal strategy starts with design and implementation and then involves managing or outsourcing the delivery of a plan that aligns your organisational objectives with workforce demographics. To maximise the return on your time, effort and contributions made to the plan, it's important for employers to optimise retirement outcomes for employees. Engaging tools could help employees model their retirement outcomes according to changes in investment strategy, retirement age and contribution rates.
Investment responsibilities of defined contribution pension plan providers
Building an optimal defined contribution strategy
- Do you have access to robust investment research?
We continually investigate, test and monitor investment managers and products, around the world, to provide you with the most up-to-date information and ideas.
- Have you sought advice from an investment professional?
Whether you want to streamline your plan or determine the right investment strategies to adopt, we can provide sound advice and guidance to help you optimise what you offer your employees and navigate the global provider landscape.
- Have you considered third-party solutions?
We can help you reduce the management and compliance burden associated with running your own self-administered plan, which could involve moving elements of managing the plan to third party packaged solutions tailored to your organisation, and employees.
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Defined contribution pension plan solutions
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Ireland DC Master Trust
The award-winning Mercer Master Trust helps you minimize the time, cost and effort needed to deliver a high-quality, IORP II-compliant defined contribution occupational pension solution. -
Mercer Aspire
Mercer Aspire is built around your specific members’ needs with the capacity to continuously evolve to reflect new ideas, opportunities and changing market conditions. -
Employee Financial Wellness
Improving employees’ financial wellness can lead to heathier employees, reduced absenteeism and lower turnover rates while raising employee satisfaction and improving the employer brand.
How outsourcing your commitments could help you
achieve your goals
A growing number of employers are choosing to work with specialist investment providers to help them manage their defined contribution (DC) pension commitments. While this approach has many names around the world – outsourced CIO, OCIO, delegated solutions, fiduciary management – the aim is the same: to offer solutions that enable plan providers to meet their goals more efficiently.
Through an outsourced model, employers and other providers maintain control over the critical decisions, such as strategy, plan design and asset allocation, leaving the technical and tactical tasks, including investment manager selection and monitoring, due diligence and oversight, to a third-party specialist like Mercer. We offer a range of outsourced pension and retirement solutions tailored to our client needs all around the world. Contact us to find out more.
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