Michael Dempsey
President, Investments and Retirement
Investments
Research, financial tools, advice and bespoke investment solutions to help you manage risks, capture opportunities more quickly and position your portfolios to deliver on your unique objectives.
Investment solutions to suit your needs
Everything we do starts with your needs in mind. We take the time to understand your overall investment objectives and pain points and define an effective approach. We leverage our latest thinking and insights, and strategic and manager research to help you make better informed decisions. Get advice and guidance to help you identify effective ways to convert these insights into achievable and desirable outcomes – including portfolio construction and asset allocation. If you want our help with strategy execution, we can become an extension of your team and build a bespoke and agile implementation solution tailored to your portfolio needs.
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Implementation and OCIO
We can help you define, develop and implement your investment strategy by addressing areas such as governance, risk, sustainability and diversification. We flex our services to suit your needs and help you achieve your investment goals. -
Sustainable investments
We help you build a sustainable investment strategy that integrates environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations; diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) factors and seeks an optimal mix between positive change and favourable returns. -
Alternative investments
Leveraging our existing relationships with hundreds of asset managers around the world, we can help you identify and source new investment strategies, opportunities, ideas and innovations across private markets and hedge funds. -
Strategic research
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Asset manager research
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Managing investment risk
Our Mercer Sentinel team can help you conduct due diligence and mitigate operational risks across your portfolios and strategies. We assess asset managers, custodians and other service providers to help you deliver on your governance objectives.
Access the latest investment research and insights
We empower you to make better informed investment decisions by providing you with access to the latest strategic investment and asset manager research, and our views and insights on the latest trends and investment themes. Learn more about our world of investment insights below.
- 1 Strategic research
- 2 Asset manager research
- 3 Investor podcast
- 4 Blogs and articles
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Visit our insights section to read our experts’ point of views on the latest investor themes and market movements.
Introducing some of our leaders
Awards and industry recognition
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Investment consultant of the year 2023
Mercer has been recognized as the investment consultant of the year for pioneering sustainable investment and assisting more than 25 institutional investors around the globe to better assess their exposures to climate transition risks.
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Global market leader I Full discretionary OCIO AUM
Mercer was recognized by CIO magazine survey as the global market leader for full discretionary OCIO assets under management. We’re proud to help clients address challenges and capture opportunities more efficiently.
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NASDAQ strategic alliance of the year award
Mercer’s partnership with eVestment was recognized by the NASDAQ closing Bell Ringing for strategic alliance of the Year. In a world that continues to challenge investors, we're proud that our clients trust us to help them gain timely insights on managers and strategies.
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Best Global Impact Investment Company 2023 (USA)
Mercer has been recognized as the best global impact investment company in the USA by Wealth & Finance International. Learn more about our impact investing solutions.
1 Source: Wealth and Finance, as of October, 2023, Mercer (US) LLC did not pay a fee to participant in this award. This award is not indicative of the adviser’s future performance.
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Best Global Large-Cap Blend Equity Fund (YTD)
Wealth & Finance International have recognized Mercer for the best Sustainable Global Equity Fund M-5 GBP Acc. Learn more about our sustainable investment solutions.
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Captive Review European Investment Specialist Award 2023
Mercer has been recognized as Captive Review’s European Investment Specialist 2023. Learn more about our insurance investment solutions.
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Winner Fund – multi-asset/other of the year 2023
Mercer’s Private Investment Partners (PIP) VII Global Impact Fund has been recognized as the Multi-Asset Impact Fund of the year. PIP VII is a global solution covering a broad spectrum of private market asset classes. It intends to contribute to the limitation of adverse impacts on the climate and associated environmental challenges and to a more inclusive and equitable society by generating demonstrable positive impact across Mercer’s impact themes.
Professional pensions 2022
Mercer received four awards at the 2022 Professional Pensions Awards, including:
- DB multi-asset manager of the year
- Fiduciary manager of the year
- Cashflow-driven investment (CDI) manager of the year
- DB investment innovation of the year
Leverage our breadth and depth
$16.2T
US $16.2 trillion in global assets under consulting advice1
$492Bn
US $492 billion in global assets under management2
11K+
More than 11,900 investment strategies rated3
3K+
More than 3,000 asset managers rated4
* 1 June 30, 2023, 2 June 30, 2024, 3 March 31, 2024, 4 March 31, 2024
Time, expertise and confidence
Lean on our consultants to provide the advice, insight, implementation and operations your portfolio needs to help you invest with confidence. Explore what our range of investment solutions could mean for your portfolio today.
Insights, ideas, innovation
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