Part of Kennedy’s HR Consulting Research Series
Exclusive findings on the market for HR Benefits consulting services.
This in-depth research examines Benefits consulting providers and their client solutions around retirement, investment, and health and welfare consulting, and includes an analysis of key consulting practices by capabilities, go-to-market approach, and revenues.
HR leadership, CFOs, and benefits directors are focused on managing pension risk and healthcare costs, issues that are fairly universal across various industries and developed markets around the globe. While companies are also managing many other benefits issues, none are driving the significant increase in client demand for consulting services that these two represent.
Kennedy’s market forecast details the key trends impacting client demand for Benefits consulting services, and provides market size and growth estimates (through 2014) across Benefits consulting service segments, geographic regions, and specific client industries.
Consulting Service Segment:
- Investment Consulting
- Health & Welfare
- Retirement Benefits
Geography:
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- Asia Pacific
- Latin America
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Client Vertical Industry:
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Public Sector
- Manufacturing
- Energy
- Communications and Media
- Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
- Retail
- Utilities
- Other Industries
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The HR Benefits Consulting market continues on its path toward market maturity, as evidenced by a number of significant transactions in recent months. The analysis identifies the impact of consolidation and other market forces that are reshaping the landscape for Benefits Consulting services.
Also of note in the findings, client organizations continue to seek alternatives to traditional defined benefit plans that have kept consultants and actuaries busy for decades. And in the current market, client urgency around plan strategy and design has given way to plan administration and compliance management.
Kennedy's analysis of the market landscape and associated assessments provides exclusive rankings of the largest practices serving the HR Benefits Consulting market. With annual practice revenues and year over year changes in revenues, the analysis provides clarity into the current trajectory of the most significant Benefits providers.
The research also features The Kennedy Vanguard of Benefits Consulting Practices, which provides clients with an objective view of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the leading providers, as well as the cumulative impact that specific dynamics in the Benefits market — and each service segment — have on competitive positioning. As the research details, only three of the 17 firms Kennedy assessed rated strong enough to be in The Kennedy Vanguard of Benefits Consulting Practices.
This market analysis includes:
THE BENEFITS CONSULTING LANDSCAPE presents in-depth analysis of recent actions by leading players in the market and discusses the implications these moves have on the future of the market.
THE KENNEDY VANGUARD OF BENEFITS CONSULTING PRACTICES features the strongest Benefits consultancies. Firms are assessed on relative breadth and depth of firms’ capabilities within the overall service area.
PROFILES OF SELECT BENEFITS CONSULTING PRACTICES profiles Benefits consulting firms featured in this report.
OVERVIEW OF BENEFITS TRENDS SHAPING DEMAND FOR CONSULTING looks at the market trends and factors affecting growth for services in the benefits consulting marketplace.
BENEFITS CONSULTING: CLIENT SPENDING AND GROWTH FORECASTS details the size of the benefits consulting market and its projected growth by consulting sub-segment, region and client industry.
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