Develop and implement scenarios to inform strategy decisions.

While pensions are in the business of delivering predictable retirement futures for their members, the realities of pension investment and administration are anything but predictable.  Our Scenario Planning service helps pension funds and institutional investors to navigate uncertainty with confidence. We help organizations construct and analyze future scenarios, providing a robust framework for strategic decision-making in a complex and rapidly changing environment. Our approach goes beyond traditional forecasting, enabling clients to identify key drivers of change, such as economic trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements, and geopolitical events. We also understand the value in bringing scenarios to life through experiences, which engages leader’s full analytical and creative capabilities for breakthrough solutions. By developing a range of plausible future scenarios, we enable organizations to understand potential impacts on their operations and investment portfolios. Clients can confidently articulate strategic options, mitigate risks, and capitalize on opportunities, ensuring that they are resilient and adaptive in the face of uncertainty.

Build capabilities to anticipate and prepare for future challenges and opportunities.

Thinking about the future in a structured way does not always come naturally, but once taught, it becomes intuitive. Our Foresight Training program is designed to build internal capabilities in strategic foresight and scenario planning, tailored specifically for pension funds and institutional investors. Our approach can be customized to boards, executives or functional teams and covers the principles and practices of foresight, including trend analysis, horizon scanning, and scenario development, using live business challenges. Participants learn how to systematically identify and assess potential disruptions and strategic opportunities in the complex landscape of long-term investing. Through hands-on workshops and interactive sessions, we equip teams with the skills needed to integrate foresight into their strategy processes, fostering a proactive and agile organizational culture. Fuse’s foresight training goes beyond traditional linear projections. It holds that there is no single future, but multiple plausible, possible, probably and preferable futures, each with implications, winners and losers.