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MERCER AT A GLANCE Printer version

Mercer is a global consulting leader in talent, health, retirement, and investments. We help clients around the world advance the health, wealth, and performance of their most vital asset — their people.


Talent, Health, Retirement, Investments
  • Investment advisory and solutions
  • International
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Outsourcing
  • Brokerage
  • Benefit strategy, design, and administration

  • Rewards
  • Leadership and organization performance
  • Defined benefit risk management
  • Defined contribution and defined benefit plan design
KEY FACT Mercer is:
  • A world leader in talent advice, including leadership and organization performance, rewards, mobility, and communication.
  • The world's largest investment consultant with clients that include pension funds, endowments and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and private wealth.
  • The world's leading employee health & benefits consultant/broker.
  • A leader in retirement consulting.
  • A leader in total benefits outsourcing.
CLIENTS Mercer serves approximately:
  • 80% of top US public companies
  • 70% of FTSE 100 companies
  • 70% of CAC 40 companies
  • 65% of Nikkei 225 companies
  • 80% of clients <5,000 employees
OUR APPROACH 

Mercer is focused on growth through acquisition as well as from organic growth.

February 2013: Mercer acquired Hall Consulting, a Canadian-based mining survey and consulting firm.

March 2012: Mercer acquired REPCA, a Paris-based brokering and advisory firm for employer health and benefits plans, reinforcing its position as one of the leaders in advising employer health and benefits plans in France.

February 2012: Mercer acquired Pensjon & Finans, a leading Norwegian-based financial investment and pension consulting firm, strengthening Mercer's position as a leader in the provision of pensions and investment advice in the Nordics.

February 2012: Mercer acquired Yokogawa-ORC (Y-ORC), a global mobility firm in Japan, acquiring the remaining 49% of the joint venture established in 2010 and making Mercer the leading provider of global mobility products and services in Asia.

January 2012: Mercer acquired Alicia Smith & Associates, LLC, a nationally-known Medicaid policy consulting firm based in Washington, DC, strengthening Mercer's government human services consulting services.

October 2011: Mercer completed its acquisition of US-based Censeo Corporation, building upon our human capital consulting strength and capabilities in strategic talent management.

August 2011: Mercer acquired the health and welfare and qualified plans practices of Mahoney & Associates, establishing Mercer as a leading health and benefits broker in the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida brokerage market, gaining revenue and shares in the DC advisory space.

June 2011: Mercer acquired Evaluation Associates, strengthening our wealth management and investment consulting business.

January 2011: Mercer completed the acquisition of Hammond Associates (St. Louis, MO), the third largest investment consultant to endowments, foundations, health care organizations, and private wealth market in the US. 1

1 FundFire, Nov. 29, 2010

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