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Mercer - Investments
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Timely insights, specialist advice and investment solutions helping investors build a robust and resilient portfolio.
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Our heritage is investment consulting. For more than five decades, our advice has helped investors all around the world create plans and portfolios that target their objectives. Throughout that time, our advice has evolved alongside increasingly complex strategies and asset classes to enable our clients to seize opportunities and manage risk. Our expertise lies in intellectual capital and generating ideas for long-term investment, and we have embedded sustainability and a net-zero carbon target into our approach so our clients can prepare for the future and potentially reach their goals effectively. We help corporate pension funds, public pension funds, insurance companies, and endowments and foundations globally implement investment ideas efficiently through improved governance frameworks. Our operational capabilities and portfolio management systems rival any in the asset management community, offering solutions spanning traditional and alternative asset classes, including private markets. Using these systems, and with support from our global and experienced research team, we are the investments consultant for outsourced discretionary assets under management, managing more than US$415bn.* *Pensions & Investments 2021 Outsourced-Chief Investment Officer Survey, worldwide discretionary assets under management as of March 31, 2021 as reported by each of the firms participating in the survey to P&I for the Consultant category. Mercer did not pay a fee to participate in this survey. This survey is not indicative of the adviser’s future performance. Please See Our Important Notices: https://www.mercer.com/what-we-do/wealth-and-investments/important-notices.html
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Despite the noise from the recent market sell off, we continue to believe the US and other global economies are on track for a soft landing, with underlying economic data remaining resilient. Julius Bendikas, CFA joined Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Kriti Gupta on Bloomberg’s Opening Trade to discuss our latest macroeconomic and asset class views and why we believe equities may have further to run. Watch the full interview click here: https://bit.ly/4dH0ULp #investing #markets #economy
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Markets have changed profoundly in recent years, with heightened uncertainty around inflation, interest rates, geopolitics and more. These changes mean many investors will need to put increased focus on many of the foundational aspects of their investment framework such as their return objectives and risk tolerance. However, in the latest edition of Critical Thinking: Brick by Brick, Kylie Willment, our Pacific CIO, explores why strong fundamentals won’t be enough on their own: investors also need to embrace sophistication. https://bit.ly/4749Lo4 #investing #markets #investment #economy
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Global equities have stabilized since the sell-off seen in early August that was largely driven by market technicals. For more timely investment insights from our research teams, join the MercerInsight® community: https://bit.ly/4dxTFp7 #investing #markets #economy
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Global #equities have stabilized since the sell-off seen in early August that was largely driven by market technicals. For more timely #investment insights from our research teams, join the MercerInsight® community: https://bit.ly/4cGfRMp
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We know that diversification is crucial for success. In our new whitepaper, we break down the important considerations and pitfalls in successful hedge fund portfolio construction to potentially maximize the likelihood of achieving the long-term goals of the investment portfolio. https://bit.ly/4dDdueT #investment #HedgeFunds #investing
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With real estate values bottoming and property-level fundamentals showing resilience, we believe investors should begin preparing to re-enter the real estate market. Hear Jay Love and Paul Kolevsohn discuss the current state of the US real estate market and highlight whether now is the opportune time to re-enter real estate equity. https://bit.ly/4dZfU7h #RealEstate #markets #equity #investing
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[PODCAST] In our latest episode, recorded at the Mercer Global Investment Forum in Melbourne, Australia, Rebecca Jacques and David P. Scopelliti are joined by Pengana Capital Group’s CEO, Russel Pillemer to discuss both the challenges and opportunities in the fast-growing private debt space. They break down the historic drivers of growth in the asset class, and assess its development in Australia, a market in which opportunities to invest in private debt solutions have, historically, been more limited. Listen to the full episode here: https://apple.co/3WZYPmR #MercerGIF #investing #PrivateMarkets
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[PODCAST] Remarkable growth in the captive insurance space has been driven by a range of factors over the recent past – from an extended hard market to the expansion of risks requiring underwriting. In our latest episode of Critical Thinking, we dive into the world of captive insurers as William Gibbons is joined by Ellen Charnley, President of Marsh Captive Solutions, and Chris Tschida, CFA, Head of US Insurance at Mercer. Listen to the episode: https://apple.co/3yScJ2n #podcast #insurance #investing #risks
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Listen to Michael Brand address questions regarding why institutional investors should potentially consider investing in real assets as an alternative investment in today's market. https://bit.ly/3MlKNXx #investing #AlternativeInvestments