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COSAN CONSULTING

Helping Trustees and Sponsors Navigate a path to success

Offering specialist employee benefit optimisation by assisting Employers, Trustees and service providers to deliver cost effective, customer focused solutions to their employees and members.

INTRODUCTION

At Cosan, we’re not just another consulting firm – we’re pioneers in optimising pension services for Trustees, Sponsors, and Members alike.

Founded by Ian and Philip with a vision to revolutionise the industry, we recognised the flaws in the traditional approach: temporary fixes instead of lasting solutions. That’s why we’re committed to the ethos of “fix not fire” – addressing root issues rather than shifting problems around.

With our extensive expertise and tailored consulting tools like Cosan Project Office and ARM, we meticulously analyse and optimise pension service delivery. Our independence ensures impartiality, guaranteeing our clients the best outcomes. At Cosan, we’re not just consultants; we’re partners in shaping a better pension services landscape for all stakeholders.

What we do...

Cosan is an independent, specialist, pension services consulting firm.

We consult across a broad spectrum of pension service disciplines and our team helps pension scheme stakeholders – Trustees, Sponsors and Members – to optimise the services they receive. Our work involves consulting around both the delivery of business-as-usual services and projects, including the transitioning of work between providers.

The portfolio of work we have, past and present, involves optimising both in-house delivered services and those outsourced to provider firms.

How we do it...

We take a highly consultative approach to our assignments – using various tools that that we have developed specifically to support the work that we do, including Cosan Project Office and our service optimisation consulting “wrapper” called ARM.

This means that we take great care to understand what a client’s issues are and how best to remedy them, now and for the future. To help us do this we have an expert team of business analysts and project managers who forensically look at the in-scope services. The output is a detailed fact-base which is the foundation to all our projects. As a result our clients receive a highly tailored service from us, ensuring great outcomes – all our clients are positive about the work we do for them, and all are referenceable.

Being “easy to do business with” and fun to work alongside is a seam that runs through everything we do. We enjoy what we do and we want our clients to feels the same!

Why we do what we do...

The Founders of the business, Ian and Philip, came to the conclusion that the pension services market wasn’t working well for clients, members and the providers of services. Being in leadership positions within a mainstream pension services organisation they could see that fundamental issues were rarely being solved permanently. All too often consultants would move services (and problems) from one place to another, often with the reasons why being unclear.

As a result, they decided to find a better way and Cosan was established! At the heart of their thinking was that “fix not fire” should always be the starting point, rather than simply moving the problem on when issues arose. Change is sometimes unavoidable of course. This may be because of changing client requirements, continued poor service, loss of trust in the provider or in-house team, or lack of value for money. However, “fix not fire” is still at the centre of our approach and it has served our clients very well over the years.

We’re fiercely independent and we believe that our impartial and unfettered autonomy is more important than ever, including the fact that we never consult on services we ourselves provide. This gives our clients reassurance that they will get the best possible outcomes from the Cosan team.