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Mercer's investment consulting business has released data on its global investment manager search activity for 2010. The report provides insight into institutional investment manager hiring patterns and trends across the world, and is being reported through Mercer's global client database.

The manager search trends report highlights institutional investment mandate hiring patterns and trends across the world. It is based upon search activity reported by Mercer consultants through our global client database (GCDB). During 2010, we advised on 940 manager searches across the world, representing US$95.6 billion in assets placed. 2010 saw a considerable increase in search activity over the prior year. The most notable increase was seen in Australia where the number of searches increased by 80% and in Europe ex UK. The UK and US both saw a decline in activity while Canada showed a small increase in the number of searches. Searches in Asia increased while New Zealand had a decline in activity.

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Mercer's asset manager fee survey 2010 is a bi-annual report analysing fee data on more than 20,000 asset management products from over 4,000 investment management firms. The survey covers asset managers in a range of geographies and across numerous products including pooled and separately managed accounts.

The study is intended for use as a reference when assessing asset management fees. For most investors fees are not a critical component in the evaluation of an investment manager product. It is nonetheless an important consideration as they can reduce the expected manager added value by anywhere from 20 to 50 percent.

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This year our survey covered over 1,100 plans from 13 countries, with total assets of over €550 billion.

We continue to see a move away from equities as bonds continue to remain the preferred asset class for most European countries. We also noticed a marked increase in the use of non-traditional asset classes by larger markets such as Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands, with all showing increased exposure since last year.

Three key findings emerged from this year’s survey:

• Re-emergence of inflation as a concern
• Broader search for growth continues
• Diversification of bond exposure

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This survey covers traditional asset classes in seven regions, as well as global and emerging market strategies. It refers to quoted rather than actual data for segregated and pooled accounts.

No plans to re-issue

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