Research Consultant (Real Assets)

Role summary

Research Consultant (Real Assets) is a role at Lane Clark & Peacock in London, England, United Kingdom (remote). Posted 2026-08-04. Experience level: 5-10.

Job title

Research Consultant (Real Assets)

Company

Lane Clark & Peacock

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

Work arrangement

remote

Category

Software Engineering

Experience level

5-10

Date posted

2026-08-04

Job description

Research Consultant (Real Assets) Location - London with hybrid working as per departmental requirements (currently a MINIMUM of 60%)

LCP is an award-winning actuarial and analytics consultancy providing market-leading capabilities and advice across pensions and financial services, energy, health, and analytics.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Investment Consulting department as a Research Consultant (Real Assets). LCP’s Investment Consulting practice is widely recognised for delivering rigorous, independent advice. We partner with a broad range of clients from pension schemes and central banks to charities and insurers helping them achieve their investment goals. At the heart of what we do is in-depth fund-manager research and analysis, giving clients the insight they need to select the right managers and maximise long-term returns.

What will you be doing?

As a Research Consultant, you’ll drive research into real-asset strategies and their managers, your key responsibilities will be to:

Research Real Assets investment products offered by investment managers

Provide clear, well justified recommendations on the suitability of fund management products for use by our clients

Identify emerging trends and market opportunities in the real estate and infrastructure sectors, and assess their potential impact on client portfolios and investment strategies

Collaborate closely with client-facing teams, analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of research efforts with overall client aims

Maintain strong relationships with industry experts, peers, and other external sources to gather valuable market intelligence and stay ahead of industry trends

Produce high-quality research reports, whitepapers, and other thought leadership materials to enhance the firm's market presence and credibility

Research approaches and providers of services (eg brokers, platforms) to sell funds on the secondary market. Research other ways for investors to raise liquidity from their illiquid assets

Conduct investment manager research and formulate views on investment managers’ capabilities across asset classes to which you’re assigned

Attend regular in-person research meetings and internal discussions

Identify funds and managers that require researching

Lead or contribute to research meetings with managers through the planning of meetings, interviewing, analysis and proposing recommendations

Produce high quality written and presentational materials to communicate our views to client-facing consultants and clients

Support clients on the appropriate design of Real Assets strategies that meet their own investment objectives

Conduct operational due diligence reviews on fund management companies in-line with LCP’s processes

Conduct reviews of fund documentation

Ensure the recommendations on managers’ products can be justified: data and decisions are well documented; arguments and views are logical and consistent

Review work done by others, including both detailed checks and a check for overall reasonableness

Skills and Experience:

Several years of Real Assets experience in a manager research or asset management role at an investment consultancy, wealth manager, family office, fund-of-funds or in-house asset-owner

Experience and knowledge of Real Assets and investment strategies

Experience in assessing environmental and social impacts of real estate and infrastructure investments; and experience of metrics and techniques used

Excellent presentation and communication skills including and ability to present persuasively and debate your views

Time management and delegation ability, to juggle variable, sometimes high workloads

Good Excel, data-processing and project management skills

Professional qualification in investment, finance or surveying (preferrable)

What’s in it for you?

Take a look at our and Career stories pages to see why our people love being here! As well as joining a certified B-Corp, multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

For you:

Hybrid working (see top of the advert for details)

Professional study support (where applicable)

Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks

For your family:

Life assurance

Income protection

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave

For your health:

26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday

Private medical insurance

Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits

Eye care vouchers

Cycle to work scheme

Digital GP services

For your wealth:

Competitive pension scheme

Discretionary bonus scheme

High street discounts

Season ticket loans

For others:

Volunteering opportunities

For the environment:

Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies)

And much more!

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation.

LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application. This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch via our dedicated email address - to discuss ho