NEPC’s Dave Moore is featured in this FundFire article exploring how healthcare institutions and hospital systems are increasingly turning to OCIO providers to manage complex portfolios, liquidity demands, and enterprise-wide financial challenges. Read the full article for highlights evolving client needs around liquidity oversight, scenario analysis, and technology-driven decision-making.
Outsourced chief investment officers are vying for business from healthcare institutions and hospital systems as the sector grapples with complex portfolios and liquidity pressures.
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Consultants-owned OCIOs are also taking aim. NEPC is trying to attract more healthcare clients through its “Skyan” enterprise risk-management software. The platform, launched in 2020, allows hospital systems to model how different scenarios from capital expenditures and wage adjustments to shifts in payer mix could impact their cash-flow projections.
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The software has allowed NEPC’s 47 healthcare clients to make more informed decisions on increasing investment risk and stress test those changes, said Dave Moore, healthcare team leader at NEPC.
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Many healthcare clients today are looking for peer-analysis tools, Moore added, something that NEPC is hoping to incorporate into Skyan by the end of the year. While the sector doesn’t have industry-recognized benchmarks for investment performance like other types of institutions, some hospitals want to see how their portfolios and operational costs compare to others in the same state, rating or asset size, Moore said.