Learn from each other and 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, this community is open to all Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Administration Benchmarking Subscribers. It fosters best-practice sharing amongst plans from the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, and AMEA, and is founded on CEM’s benchmarking and research insights. Its hallmark event is the Annual Global Pension Administration Conference, attended by over 80 systems.
Global Leaders: Investment & Operations
Founded in 2010, this is an invitation-only community designed to foster best-practice sharing among large and sophisticated pension and sovereign wealth funds. It is led by a core group of investment, strategy, and finance professionals who jointly sponsor custom CEM research. Its hallmark event is the Annual Global Leaders Conference.
Global Leaders: Data & Systems
Founded in 2024, this is an invitation-only community designed to foster best-practice sharing among technology and data leaders at complex pension and sovereign wealth funds. Its hallmark event is the Annual Data & Systems Forum, connected to CEM’s annual benchmarking of market data, systems, and talent.
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)
We participate in CEM’s Global Leaders subscription annually. We appreciate CEM’s ability to connect large and sophisticated asset owners, from all major pension markets, on the topics critical to our organization. For ABP, what makes Global Leaders unique is the integration of market-leading research and forums in which the insights are debated by subject matter experts. For me, personally, the in-person session is an annual highlight.
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.