Mercer Investment Management has in excess of 60 professionals based in the United Kingdom, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to this resource, Mercer Investment Consulting is the largest investment consulting firm in the world. In total, there are over 650 employees in Mercer Investment Consulting including more than 40 full-time manager researchers. 

Mercer’s research capability has won a number of industry awards, and this year an independent survey of UK fund managers, conducted by Global Pensions, concluded it was the most highly regarded in the industry.

Mercer's manager researchers are engaged full-time in meeting managers and analysing investment portfolios. This extensive resource allows us to access proprietary research on over 2,500 active investment managers and 14,000 different investment strategies.

In assessing an investment manager, Mercer Investment Consulting focuses its research on four key factors:

• Idea generation
  
• Portfolio construction
  
• Implementation
  
• Business management

The identification of what constitutes a sustainable competitive advantage or a significant potential weakness in each of these areas requires a sound understanding of: investment markets; the practical workings of investment management firms: and, the competitors under consideration.

Mercer Investment Managment applies its own proprietary research, objective analysis and portfolio construction techniques to assemble portfolios in an effort to maximise value-add.