Executive Summary

Investors remain focused on issues of liability and risk management; however a quarter of investors are concerned about liquidity, up from 10% in 2021, while the issue of integrating ESG has significantly lessened in the last year.

Methodology

Coalition Greenwich’s 36th annual U.K. Institutional Investor research is based on in-depth interviews conducted during 2023 with 239 of the largest institutional funds in the United Kingdom. These institutional investors are U.K. corporate funds, local authorities and other institutional funds each with over £75 million in total DB plan assets, DC plan assets, or other institutional assets. Senior fund professionals provided quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the investment and client service capabilities of their investment managers and detailed information on key market trends.