LINCHPIN Information

Linchpin is an independent organisation which helps investing institutions deal with the complexity of today’s financial markets, product offerings and regulatory environment, ensuring you get the result that is best for you. Advisory We assist public sector pension funds and charities with: Governance – providing an independent voice to ensure your internal processes and monitoring are fit for purpose. Investment – we act as ‘an experienced friend’ to ensure your investment consultant, actuary, accountant, performance measurer and/or custodian is doing what is best for you. Asset allocation – providing constructive and objective challenge to your own investment hypotheses, whether strategic or tactical. Fund placement and financing Our subsidiary, Linchpin IFM Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, introduces high quality service providers in the following areas: Japan – long-standing ‘under the radar’ active value-focused Japanese equity manager. This sector has not been easy in recent years but the opportunities for patient investors are correspondingly larger. Credit alternatives - our manager has stood the test of time investing across secondary LP interests, direct lending and more opportunistic financing. Unlike Private Equity secondaries returns to underlying investors reflect the lack of competition. Raising liquidity from illiquid assets - if you are looking to refinance the same manager actively purchases or provides finance against a range of illiquid assets. Liquidity data - we can provide you, through our partner in this area, with data and analysis of funding liquidity cycles for over 50 countries and regions. It is timely, available ten working days after month end and remains a superlative framework for understanding what is really moving markets.