Our experienced team supports our clients through our in-depth understanding of risk and return and our proven ability to build governance capacity. In doing so, we help our clients build wealth for their members. We are experts in fund manager evaluation and selection and provide trusted insights to the pensions industry through our proprietary research, ESG and TCFD consulting and our specialist reporting services.
We assess your scheme for Value for Member compliance. We deliver this as a complete assessment of your scheme and compare your scheme against other options in the market.
"We work hard to closely align our interests with those of our clients and make sure that the
solutions we implement match the ability of the client to govern those solutions."
Dean Wetton | Founder and CEO
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At Dean Wetton Advisory (DWA), we believe that meaningful engagement with investment managers starts with clarity. Effective engagement requires clear goals, a collaborative approach and a credible plan of action if outcomes fall short. For many pension schemes, stewardship is not exercised directly. Instead, clients rely on their investment managers to vote and engage with issuers in a way that reflects the scheme’s beliefs and long-termobjectives.
Today, on 19 June 2026, we join the UK’s employee owned community in celebrating Employee Ownership Day (EO Day). As a partner of the Employee Ownership Association (EOA), we unite behind this year’s bold theme #OwningIt, recognising the role each of us plays in strengthening employee ownership and amplifying its impact for employees, businesses, communities and the wider economy.
Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes are becoming increasingly rare. According to the UK Pension Protection Fund’s Purple Book 2025, the number of private-sector DB schemes has fallen from around 7,800 in 2006 to just 4,840 today, with the majority now closed to new members...