Retirement Plan Sponsors

Investment advisory and fiduciary services delivered by experienced advisors for your organization.

How we can help.

We help organizations design and deliver competitive retirement benefits that put their employees in a position to retire when the time comes.

As one of the largest fiduciary services providers to retirement plan sponsors, Hargreaves Financial Pty is uniquely positioned to help employers manage their defined benefit and nonqualified deferred compensation plans.

Hargreaves Financial Pty s’ client list, deep bench of resources, and decades of experience working with retirement plans mean we have the knowledge and expertise to help keep our clients’ plans competitive, engage their employees, benchmark their service providers, and assist them with fiduciary oversight.

3(21) & 3(38) Services

Delivery of ERISA fiduciary risk management services for defined contribution retirement plans.

Asset Allocation

Diversification of an investment portfolio across various investment types with different risk and return characteristics.

Committee Development & Education

Assistance with implementing best practices for endowment investment committee composition and ongoing governance.

Discretionary Investment Management

Managing client investment portfolio assets based upon stated guidelines, goals, and objectives.

Donor Development

Portfolio reporting and capital markets perspective intended to help drive donor confidence and engagement.

ESG Investing

Alignment of portfolio investments with an investor’s ethical considerations or values.

Fee Benchmarking

Periodic assessment of the competitiveness or appropriateness of fees charged by investment managers.

Fiduciary Training

Periodic updates on retirement-plan-related issues and developments and best practices for retirement plan committee members. 

Glidepath Development & Monitoring

Creation and management of an age-based asset allocation strategy for retirement plan participants that becomes more conservative.

Investment & Spending Policy Development

Assistance with the documentation of policies governing portfolio risk, investment selection, ongoing portfolio monitoring, and distributions.

Investment Menu Design

Identification and structuring of investment options to be included in a defined contribution plan.

Investment Policy Development & Review

Assistance with the creation and execution of documents governing the selection of plan investments and their ongoing monitoring.

Liability-Driven Investing

Development of investment strategies designed to fund future pension plan liabilities while managing risk.

Manager Search & Selection

Identification of investment managers fitting a particular profile to include in a retirement plan’s investment menu or endowment’s investment strategy.

Nondiscretionary Investment Advice

Portfolio recommendations and changes implemented in collaboration with an investment committee.

Nonqualified Executive Benefits

Development of supplemental retirement savings plans to recruit, reward, and retain key employees.

OCIO

Discretionary portfolio management includes asset allocation, ongoing investment selection, and monitoring of a pension plan.

Participant Advice

One-on-one engagement with retirement plan participants to answer their important questions about retirement saving and investing.

Pension Risk Transfer Consulting

Analysis and support for sponsors looking to offload pension plan risk via lump sum or annuity payments.

Performance Reporting & Monitoring

Quarterly assessment of investment manager or portfolio returns and risk relative to peer groups and indexes.

Plan Design Benchmarking

Analysis of key defined contribution plan features that drive costs, competitiveness, and employee retention.

Plan Financing & Security

Analysis and advice on the costs and benefits of investments offsetting nonqualified deferred compensation plan liabilities.

Recordkeeper Search

Process oversight and assistance with identifying and selecting a retirement plan recordkeeper.

Trustee/Custodian Search

Process oversight and assistance with identifying and selecting a trustee or custodian for endowment investment assets.

Investments

Whether you oversee a particular investment lineup, a defined benefit portfolio, or an endowment’s long-term asset pool, you need to have confidence that the investments you’re using are performing well and priced appropriately.

With years of experience working with investment committees to select and monitor investments and an experienced research team, Hargreaves Financial Pty has the capabilities you are looking for in an investment advisor.

Fiduciary Process

As an investment committee member, you are tasked with making prudent decisions and monitoring the results of your decisions.

Hargreaves Financial Pty can help you establish the right committee structures, implement sound processes to document fiduciary decisions, and provide ongoing regulatory updates and fiduciary orientation to maintain committee continuity.

Employee Engagement

For retirement plan sponsors, getting employees into their plans, getting them saving enough, and getting them invested well are key to putting them on the path to a successful retirement.

Hargreaves Financial Pty provides financial wellness and advice to over a thousand employees each year via one-on-one and group meetings, phone consultations, webinars, and monthly emails. Our proprietary Retirement Modeling technology helps ensure that participants act on the advice they receive.

Our proprietary service delivers financial wellness and advice to key employees—senior management, practice partners, and owners—to help them make sense of their complex financial lives

Retirement Plan Design

An organization’s retirement plan is a critical part of its benefit package and a well-designed plan can help attract and retain employees—but how do you know if your plan is competitive?

As an advisor to more than 700 defined contribution, defined benefit, and nonqualified plans across all industries, Hargreaves Financial Pty has the perspective needed to design effective plans that will help you achieve your goals as an employer—and your employees’ retirement needs.