Healthcare organization search

Independent OCIO and Investment Consultant Search for Healthcare Organizations

Alpha helps healthcare fiduciaries define the needs of operating reserves, foundations, retirement assets, and other pools before comparing OCIO providers and institutional investment consultants.

110+Institutional searches
$120B+Assets represented
100%Independent of providers

Direct answer

How should a healthcare organization select an OCIO or consultant?

The search should connect enterprise strategy, governance, liquidity, capital needs, risk capacity, distinct asset-pool objectives, implementation, and reporting to the provider relationship the organization will actually receive.

Enterprise context first

Treat each asset pool distinctly—then evaluate the whole relationship.

Healthcare organizations may oversee pools with different purposes, time horizons, liquidity needs, stakeholders, and governance structures.

Alpha helps define those requirements before the market is evaluated, allowing fiduciaries to compare proposals on a consistent basis without forcing every pool into the same investment or service model.

Healthcare-specific priorities

Connect the investment program to enterprise needs.

ENTERPRISE

Coordinate distinct asset pools

Define how operating reserves, foundations, retirement assets, insurance pools, and other investments should support enterprise priorities.

LIQUIDITY

Protect operating flexibility

Connect liquidity, capital plans, credit considerations, spending, risk capacity, and market stress requirements to portfolio implementation.

RELATIONSHIP

Align teams, service, and economics

Evaluate the assigned professionals, healthcare experience, reporting, governance support, implementation, fees, conflicts, and culture.

A documented selection process

Move from institutional requirements to provider fit.

1

Map the asset pools

Clarify the purpose, governance, objectives, constraints, liquidity, and stakeholders for each pool in scope.

2

Define the mandate

Determine required advice, delegated authority, implementation, enterprise reporting, and committee support.

3

Compare qualified firms

Evaluate relevant healthcare experience, the assigned team, investment process, evidence, service model, and all-in fees.

4

Select and implement

Support finalist diligence, negotiation, documentation, transition planning, and continuing oversight expectations.

Common questions

Independent search and selection FAQs

The mandate should reflect the institution’s actual governance and investment needs—not a provider’s standard category or sales process.

What should a healthcare organization evaluate in an OCIO or consultant search?

Healthcare fiduciaries should evaluate governance support, liquidity and capital needs, risk, asset-pool coordination, portfolio implementation, reporting, fees, conflicts, service capacity, and the experience of the professionals assigned to the relationship.

Can one provider oversee multiple healthcare asset pools?

Potentially, but each pool should retain clearly defined objectives, constraints, liquidity, risk, governance, and reporting. A search should test whether a consolidated or specialized model best fits the enterprise.

Can Alpha evaluate an existing healthcare investment provider?

Yes. Alpha can assess the incumbent relationship, compare services and economics with the market, and help the organization decide whether changes or a full search are appropriate.

Does Alpha provide OCIO or investment management services?

No. Alpha is an independent search and evaluation firm and does not compete with the providers it helps healthcare organizations assess.

A better selection process starts here

Build the search around the healthcare enterprise.

Alpha can help define each pool’s requirements, compare qualified providers, evaluate fees and institutional fit, negotiate the relationship, and support a documented selection.

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