Investment solutions and OCIO services for asset owners
Our solutions to help you achieve your investment goals
We are purpose built – with access to scale, a holistic perspective, and open architecture complemented by direct investment capabilities. By working closely with you, we aim to build agile, resilient, and innovative portfolios that align precisely with your governance requirements and investment objectives.
We partner with institutional investors of all types and sizes around the world – from defined contribution and defined benefit pension plans to wealth managers and single family offices, endowment and foundations, insurers and healthcare organizations – to help build agile, more resilient and innovative investment portfolios. We don’t view portfolios in isolation. Covering governance, risk and liquidity needs, we aim to deliver advice and implementation expertise to help build portfolios that perform in practice.
The result is the ability to fully customize portfolios for clients – selecting the most appropriate tool for each job.
Working as an extension of your team, we flex our services to suit your requirements, providing support across a suite of services – from governance and due diligence to manager research and risk mitigation – along with implementation services that encompass allocation strategies to specialist areas such as alternatives, as well as direct investing capabilities.
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Governance and due diligence
Leverage our expertise to expand your governance capabilities and improve your due diligence processes. This may help you to identify optimum investment opportunities. -
Risk management
Be better prepared with our risk-management framework. This will help you navigate today’s most pressing risks and tomorrow’s potential hurdles. -
Investing sustainably
If you want to benefit from long-term investments that match your sustainability goals, we aim to help you make choices that will help to deliver true societal gains, alongside a good return potential. -
Manager research and sourcing
We can help you optimize your investment strategy by engaging our global research network and accessing some of the world’s attractive investment managers and ideas. -
Implementation services
We will gain an understanding of your goals and then work as an extension of your team. We’ll help you improve your investment governance, management and implementation. Contact us to find out more. -
Alternative investments
Gaining exposure to private assets or hedge funds can diversify a portfolio’s risk and return profile, while aiming to increase its capacity to deal with market volatility. Leverage our expertise in the field to boost your access to new opportunities.
A partner to your portfolio
Purpose built for what’s next
- Created the category of delegated solutions first in Australia before expanding globally.
- Expanded private markets offering across research, advice and solutions
- Founding UN PRI signatory with dedicated sustainability teams.
- Capturing asset-liability gains for clients with real-time execution - transforming pension fund journeys.
- Codified decades of experience into scalable decision-making tools.
- Acquisition of SECOR and Cardano – responding to client demand for greater execution capabilities.
Addressing complex investment challenges
Our outcome-orientated solutions bring a holistic perspective, helping you to focus on the things that matter most to you. Our breadth and depth of experience can help you build confidence in your strategic decisions as we act as your trusted advisor, aiming to help you succeed.
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US $727 billion assets under delegated management1
11,100 investment strategies rated2
1 March 31, 2026 / end of 1Q26. The assets under management data (the AUM Data) reported here include aggregated assets for which Mercer Investments LLC provide discretionary investment management services as of the dates indicated. With respect to certain commitment-based private funds managed by Mercer Investments LLC or its global affiliates, the AUM data includes committed but uncalled capital, which may also be reflected in client assets otherwise managed by Mercer Investments LLC or its global affiliates. The AUM Data reported here may differ from regulatory assets under management reported in the Form ADV for Mercer Investments. For regulatory assets under management, please see the Form ADV for Mercer Investments which is available upon request by contacting Compliance Department, Mercer Investments 99 High Street, Boston, MA 02110.
2 June 30, 2025
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