Our investment consulting team provides a full range of advisory and investment services including strategic asset allocation, portfolio construction, manager selection, investment and operational due diligence, on-going portfolio monitoring, in addition to bespoke consulting advice and analytics.
The team covers all asset classes and has a long track record of providing specialist services in alternatives including private markets, specifically infrastructure, real estate, private credit and private equity.
We service institutional clients in the UK and internationally, including public and corporate pension funds, private wealth managers, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and charities.
We build teams for each assignment, according to specific asset class requirements and client strategy.
We work on a retainer basis as well as on a project basis.
Our clients benefit from the strength of our dedicated in-house team, bespoke approach and long track record in alternatives.
What we do
We have been reviewing and carrying out due diligence on tax-advantaged investments for over 35 years and we pride ourselves on institutional quality research, process and expertise.
We are also flexible and are able to provide ad hoc:
- VCT, EIS, and Business Relief portfolio valuation and performance reporting services
- investment due diligence
- operational due diligence
- legal reviews, due diligence, advice and/or negotiation
- ESG advice to investors, intermediaries or managers
- market intelligence projects
Analyse the strength of a fund's offering and relative performance.
Due diligence is a vital component of any investment decision-making. We provide in-depth research and due diligence on fund investments and have a long track record of carrying out due diligence on complex alternative funds, including hedge funds, structured credit vehicles as well as other private market funds and co-investments.
Our approach focuses on the fund's investment positioning and how it differs relative to its peers, the track record of the fund and its team, the experience of its key investment professionals, the strength of the investment process, including the approach to ESG, and risk management. We have a proprietary methodology that we have developed and refined over the years.
Our approach can be customised to our clients' needs, whether they are an institutional investor looking for third party assessment to facilitate investment decision-making or whether they are an asset manager requiring an independent review of their fund.
Our investment due diligence service can be delivered as an integrated solution, alongside our proprietary operational due diligence methodology and legal due diligence. Whether delivered in isolation or with these other services, our clients achieve a new level of insight into the quality of the funds we assess.
Find the right investment managers using our customised, independent manager selection services to institutional investors.
Asset management has become increasingly complex and global in nature. Identifying talented managers who consistently outperform has become a more and more challenging and intricate process, requiring specialist expertise.
Moreover, there is no "one size fits all" approach; each client is different and as such, each manager selection exercise is unique and reflects different requirements, priorities and goals.
Our selection process is designed to be free of bias and bespoke, focused entirely on our clients’ specific requirements and follows a rigorous and proven framework, including qualitative and quantitative assessment factors.
We have extensive experience with procurement departments, public tender processes such as OJEU, formal selection exercises, and we assist our clients with the design and implementation of manager selection exercises. Where required, we also monitor the on-going performance of the managers selected. We can assist from initial scoping to beauty parades and manager interviews.
Our clients get better results benefitting from the below:
- a rigorous and structured process that identifies the best managers for the mandate
- competitive fees (we can assist in negotiations)
- comprehensive monitoring designed to meet their needs
We offer clients simple and flexible portfolio performance and risk monitoring services based on the provision of an independent and objective investment reporting framework.
These services entail performance, risk, liquidity and fee analyses for portfolios, while using industry-leading financial technology to provide efficient and ‘fit for purpose’ analysis with high quality and customisable reports, tailored to our clients’ demands.
Our monitoring can be for any periodicity and tailored to each asset class. In addition, reporting can be customised to compare performance and risk against a wide range of benchmarks.
Ascertain the strength of the operational framework underpinning the execution of a fund’s strategy.
Alongside the inevitable investment risk, operational risk can have a significant impact on the overall risk profile of any fund investment. We offer a comprehensive operational due diligence assessment service, to help address operational risk concerns associated with investing in alternative funds.
Our approach is based on proprietary methodology, developed by some of the team who were formerly at Moody’s and to which we have exclusive access. We focus on the fund’s corporate governance and oversight, its operations and valuation processes and procedures, risk management framework, corporate functions and the use of third party service providers.
Our approach can be customised to our clients' needs, whether they are an institutional investor looking for third party assessment to facilitate investment decision-making or whether they are an asset manager requiring an independent review of their Fund.
MJ Hudson Investment Advisory offers a range UK tax-advantaged investment panel solutions ranging from panel selection to panel auditing, and one off projects.
Every panel solution is bespoke to our clients’ needs. Our team works alongside clients to ensure that we deliver solutions tailored specifically to their exacting needs.
Examples of these panel options include:
- advice, guidance and/or panel reviews
- product selection
- advice on exceptions
- involvement in internal investment committees
- regular panel rationale documentation
- direct access to analysts
- customised scoring and rankings
- "deep dive" research and due diligence, where required
- advanced sector reports and market insights
We offer a wide range of tools and services to provide you with personalised panel solutions, priced to meet your criteria. These services include: portfolio construction, product auditing and governance advisory services. These services enable you to meet the ever-increasing demand for better governance and risk oversight by both shareholders and regulators. We can ensure that those needs are met by your compliance team and/or investment committee.
Our online research platform, AdvantageIQ® is the key to facilitating the delivery of all of our research services. AdvantageIQ® is our proprietary system that provides us and our clients with standardisation, greater transparency and improved monitoring for specific tax-advantaged investments and the broader market of tax-advantaged asset managers.
Our panel solutions are for advisers or intermediaries who require advice, research, assurances or something more tailored to meet targeted investment or compliance needs.
Solutions available include:
- panel selection services: we provide advice on panel criteria, customised selection, ongoing monitoring and due diligence research reporting;
- panel review services: we provide review services aimed at enhancing governance of advisers and intermediaries. These include reviewing pre-existing panel selections, reviewing panel criteria and providing insights into existing panel selections, provision of due diligence research;
- advantage select: this is our cost-efficient subscription service; we provide a curated selection of products/services to help advisers and intermediaries in fulfilling investor needs and compliance requirements. This service is delivered through our proprietary research system and database AdvantageIQ®; and
- other services: we offer a selection of services to advisers and intermediaries including commissioned due diligence reviews, due diligence data collection, panel monitoring services, investment committee attendance, training, personalised research (including performance and fee analysis), access to analysts and ad hoc consultancy services
Access specialist strategic asset allocation and portfolio construction advice, across all asset classes.
Rapidly moving capital markets, changing regulations and the sharpened focus on ESG and sustainability have resulted in significant challenges for institutional investors. Exacerbated by pressure from stakeholders, there is a need for investors to revisit and update what may prove to be outdated asset allocation and portfolio construction approaches, moving to a more modern, integrated, multi-asset investment model.
We work with clients to identify and refine their strategic objectives and with reference to their specific liabilities, constraints and ESG requirements; we use our proprietary modelling tools to translate them into long-term optimised asset allocation strategies. We are also able to help clients create a best practice governance framework for on-going portfolio management and provide support with portfolio monitoring, rebalancing and tactical positioning advice.
Once our strategy review is complete, our recommendations will be prepared as a detailed report for key stakeholders, including both quantitative and qualitative analyses to support our recommendations.
Through our additional services, we are able to assist with the implementation; conducting manager selection exercises, interviews, due diligence, transition monitoring and other investment advisory activities.
Our new summary review service provides financial advisers and wealth managers from across the spectrum with access to summaries of our institutional-grade research. The inexpensive service is accessible through a simple online portal and users can easily purchase access to detailed reviews on a case-by-case basis.
We offer the UK’s only truly independent research and advice on Tax-Advantaged investments, regulated by the FCA.
For more than 25 years, our team has been delivering institutional-grade research and advice to the industry’s largest wealth managers and financial advisers. We deliver this through a robust research process with both internal and external oversight to ensure best-practice governance and conflict-of-interest management.
