Learn from each other at CEM
CEM communities bring together senior leaders in similar roles at similar funds to discuss what matters most: market insights, best practices, common challenges, and research findings tailored to your priorities.
Whether your focus is investments, operations, technology, finance, talent or administration, our global and regional communities are designed to spark the conversations that move your fund forward.
The best insights come from people facing the same challenges you are.
Global Pension Administration
Founded in 1999
Open Pension Administration Leaders from all DB and DC Administration Benchmarking Subscribers.
Fosters best-practice sharing amongst plans from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, and AMEA.
Founded on CEM’s benchmarking and research insights.
Hallmark event: Annual Global Pension Administration Conference, which is attended by over 80 systems.
Global Leaders: Investment & Operations
Founded in 2010
By invitation-only Community designed to foster best-practice sharing among large and sophisticated pension and sovereign wealth funds.
Led by a core group of Investment, Strategy and Finance professionals that jointly sponsor customer CEM research.
Hallmark event: Annual Global Leaders Conference
Global Leaders: Data & Systems
Founded in 2024
By invitation-only Community designed to foster best practice sharing among technology and data leaders at complex pension and sovereign wealth funds.
Hallmark event: Annual Data & Systems Forum, connect to CEM’s annual benchmarking of market data, systems and talent benchmarking.
What your subscription includes
Global Pension Administration
- Annual in-person conference
- Administration benchmarking
- Commissioned research
- CEM connect
- CEM query
- Best practice webinars
Global Leaders: Investment & Operations
- Annual in-person conference
- Commissioned research
- Survey-based virtual webinars
- Annual investment market webinar
- Best practice webinars
Global Leaders: Data & Systems
- Data, system & talent benchmarking
- Annual in-person forum
- Virtual roundtables
- Best practice webinars
- CEM query
Hear from the plans that know best
CEM has been a terrific and reliably steady partner in supporting CIEBA’s Annual Membership Profile survey and analysis for almost twenty years. Their team combines discipline, rigor, and a collaborative, easy‑to‑work‑with style that really helps us make sense of complex plan information. Over the years, we’ve appreciated not just their consistent execution, but also their thoughtful engagement and responsiveness to our Members as markets and needs have evolved. (Testimonial as of April 2026)
Partnering with CEM gives us fantastic insights into how our service and costs compare to our peers, helps to inform our decisions to drive service improvements, and gives independent and valued assurance to our key stakeholders. The value of the CEM peer network cannot be overstated, with access to talented and forward-thinking pensions professionals who are open, collaborative, and united in working together to drive better member outcomes.
Simple by design
Communities operate under Chatham House rules: no vendors, participant-led agendas, just candid conversations between peers. Subscriptions run annually, beginning the first business day of January.
The one thing we leave out
Vendors. That’s it. CEM communities are a vendor-free space giving you the confidence to speak freely and focus on what you came for: learning from your peers and CEM.
