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Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) solutions

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Outcomes built on trust

What is an OCIO?

In today’s complex investment environment, an outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) can take on the fiduciary responsibility for your organization’s investment portfolio—managing assets, navigating market volatility, and optimizing portfolio performance to help reach your desired goals. An OCIO lets you delegate investment decisions efficiently, enhances governance, and saves you time so you can attend to other priorities.

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Our team is ready to discuss your investment goals and determine an appropriate course of action.

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Your trusted fiduciary

As a discretionary trustee or investment manager, our OCIO solutions team takes on the highest level of fiduciary responsibility available in investment management. That level of responsibility requires your trust, something we strive to earn and value above all else. That’s why our dedicated and experienced team will work with you to develop a fully customized investment strategy that delivers confidence.

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Strategic investment management

Striving to reach your investment goals—even in the face of market turbulence—is dependent on knowing your objectives. We take the time up front to identify and understand your higher-level strategy and assets before putting plans in motion.

Competitively priced portfolios

We build in efficiencies—both operationally and from an investment selection standpoint—that help keep our portfolios cost-competitive and drive down your overall costs without compromise to goals or performance. Plus, we provide full fee transparency with no out-of-scope billing.

  • All-inclusive single rate fee structure
  • Manage underlying investment expense ratios
  • Cost-effective collective investment trust investment options
  • Competitive liability-driven investing (LDI) solutions

Custom-built investment solutions

You should never settle for a solution that “mostly fits.” With one of the largest breadth of services in the industry, OCIO solutions can customize and combine your OCIO services with other tailored services from 51ԹϺ® to give you an investment package that can check the boxes.

  • Actuarial consulting
  • Administrative services
  • Risk management
  • Asset management
  • Investment management
  • Pension plan termination strategy
  • Pension risk transfer
  • Trust and custody services

Let 51ԹϺ® support you across these areas of investment

OCIO services built for you

We’ve worked with clients from all areas and develop custom portfolios to help meet each client’s goals, cash flows, risk budgets, and return objectives. Whether it’s a defined benefit retirement plan, endowment, foundation, corporate reserve, or rabbi trust, we’ll collaborate with you to determine an appropriate course of action while supporting your individual values and goals.

  • Asset and liability studies
  • Custodial services
  • Discretionary investment management oversight
  • Disbursement processing
  • Integration of ESG considerations
  • Investment manager search, selection, and monitoring
  • Investment policy design and ongoing maintenance
  • Online portfolio access
  • Portfolio and cashflow modeling
  • Quarterly performance reporting
  • Service benchmarking
  • Access to our Dynamic Pension Glidepath® approach

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Diversified investment experience

Tackling complex investment needs requires a seasoned team of professionals. Our OCIO solutions team, founded in 1987, has a 30+ year track record of handling a broad range of complex investment needs and creating customized asset allocations. And as the investment manager, we will assume responsibility for the entire investment process.

Top 20 provider of U.S. outsourced assets with over $24B AUM2

Team consisting of 60+ investment professionals serving nearly 600 clients3

Efficient, flexible service through an open-architecture approach

Experience managing client mandates with specific ESG requirements

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1Defined Benefit provider based on number of plans. PLANSPONSOR Defined Benefit Administration Survey, August 2023.

2Pensions and Investments, CIO Outsourcing special report, July 2022.

3As of December 31, 2023. Other asset management entities of 51ԹϺ Financial Group® includes 51ԹϺ Bank®, assets managed by segments of the insurance company and sub-advised assets within the Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS) segment.

OCIO solutions and LDI solutions are provided by Investment Solutions, an advisory team within 51ԹϺ Asset ManagementSM. 51ԹϺ Asset Management leads global asset management at 51ԹϺ®.

Custody and trust services are provided by 51ԹϺ Bank®, Member FDIC, and/or 51ԹϺ Trust Company®.  These services are provided under the trade name 51ԹϺ® Custody Solutions. 51ԹϺ Trust Company is a trade name of Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Company.

When 51ԹϺ Custody Solutions is providing investment management services, 51ԹϺ Custody Solutions serves as the investment manager or discretionary trustee but leverages the investment expertise of Investment Solutions.  Customers may also contract directly with Investment Solutions for investment management services.  In those instances, 51ԹϺ Custody Solutions serves solely in a custodial or trustee capacity.  Please refer to your underlying service agreements for details.

51ԹϺ Global Investors, LLC is registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a commodity trading advisor (CTA), a commodity pool operator (CPO) and is a member of the National Futures Association (NFA). 51ԹϺ Global Investors advises qualified eligible persons (QEPs) under CFTC Regulation 4.7. 51ԹϺ Asset ManagementSM is a trade name of 51ԹϺ Global Investors, LLC.

Insurance products and plan administrative services provided through 51ԹϺ Life Insurance Company®.

51ԹϺ Life Insurance Company, 51ԹϺ Global Investors®, 51ԹϺ Bank, and 51ԹϺ Trust Company are members of the 51ԹϺ Financial Group®, Des Moines, Iowa 50392.

51ԹϺ®, 51ԹϺ Financial Group®, 51ԹϺ Asset ManagementSM, and 51ԹϺ and the logomark design are registered trademarks of 51ԹϺ Financial Services, Inc., a 51ԹϺ Financial Group company, in the United States and are trademarks and services marks of 51ԹϺ Financial Services, Inc., in various countries around the world.

Investment and Insurance Products are:
Not Insured by the FDIC or Any Federal Government Agency
Not a Deposit or Other Obligation of, or Guaranteed by 51ԹϺ Bank Affiliate
Subject to Investment Risks, Including Possible Loss of the 51ԹϺ Amount Invested

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