InGov® measures how your institution actually governs — its structure, policies, practices, and outcomes — against an absolute fiduciary standard, and against credible peers. Boards see exactly where they stand, where the bar is, and where the improvements that move the needle lie.
We turn governance data into intelligence a board can act on: what has changed, why it matters, and what deserves attention before the next decision.
Market movements are easy to observe. Governance drift is not.
Policy discipline can weaken under pressure. Delegated authority can lose its edges. Operating practice can move quietly away from its intended design. These changes tend to develop well before they surface in performance reporting — and by then the board is reacting rather than governing.
Patient-capital institutions need more than a periodic review. They need continuous governance intelligence that helps a board recognize structural change, emerging risk, and decision implications early — while there is still time to act.
The purpose of intelligence is not to produce more information. It is to make the most consequential information easier to recognize, interpret and act on.
InGov® benchmarks institutional investors across four interconnected pillars. Together they show how governance is designed, how it operates, and how it influences long-term member, funding, and investment outcomes.
Board composition, delegation clarity, committee alignment, and the layers through which oversight is exercised.
Governance and investment policy discipline, liquidity governance, delegations, and fiduciary standards — decomposed into scored policy domains.
Meeting cadence, decision registers, board packets, meeting conduct, risk escalation pathways, and independent reassurance.
Funded ratio, a risk-adjusted active-risk-return measure, cost discipline, and the relationship between governance quality and long-term outcomes.
Most benchmarking starts and ends with peers. That can create false reassurance — a group of underperformers can all rank comfortably "average."
InGov® scores every system against an absolute fiduciary standard before introducing peer comparison. The InGov® Standard of Comparison is a proprietary benchmark grounded in authoritative sources — DOL guidance, OECD, GASB, the CFA Institute, NCPERS, GFOA — and in 60+ FAS fiduciary reviews.
Because the standard comes first, peer rank tells you where you stand without disguising whether the peer group itself is meeting the bar.
A system's position on the standard does not depend on how its peers performed.
Percentile-ranked against a curated, anonymized universe of comparable systems — each assessed against the same standard.
Absolute score (0–100), results defined as Substantial → Partial → Minimal, peer median, and percentile rank — in a single view.
Traditional benchmarking concentrates on peer behavior, not a standard of best practices. InGov® examines the governance structures, policies, practices, and decision systems, and how they impact outcomes — because that is where a board can actually intervene.
Evaluate governance architecture, policies, oversight structures, and institutional decision practices compared to best practices.
Compare comparable public investment institutions against the same standard.
Review operating-model alignment, delegation clarity, committee responsibilities, and oversight effectiveness.
Connect governance, risk, and performance findings to surface structural blind spots, emerging patterns, and areas of governance drift.
Organize the relevant evidence, peer context, policy implications, and decision considerations into clear just-in-time intelligence and insights.
InGov® is dynamic. Each policy update, board action, or peer change is dynamically reflected, and the intelligence flows through a coordinated set of insights briefings — focusing on what requires board attention.
A live view of where the system stands, pillar by pillar.
The full governance profile against the standard and the peer universe.
A focused read on one dimension that warrants attention this quarter.
Timely prompts that connect a finding to an upcoming decision.
Intelligence is most valuable when it is built into how a board operates. InGov® can support:
Greater visibility around recurring and upcoming institutional decisions.
Clarity on what the board oversees and how delegated authority is monitored.
Performance indicators connected to their relevant risks and governance responsibilities.
Documented decision authority, accountability, and escalation.
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Recurring mechanisms to confirm that policies and practices continue to operate as intended.
This is how intelligence moves from a point-in-time observation to a governance capability that strengthens over time.
Seeking independent governance benchmarking and stronger decision framing.
Evaluating the resilience and alignment of the institutional operating model.
Strengthening independent reassurance and oversight discipline.
Navigating leadership transitions and maintaining institutional continuity.
Aligning risk oversight with board accountability and delegated authority.
Serving U.S. retirement and investment systems — standalone retirement systems, integrated investment and retirement systems, state investment boards, and sovereign wealth funds.
An initial conversation focused on your organization's governance priorities, oversight challenges, and institutional objectives.