Mercer investment consulting organises for growth

Mercer investment consulting organises for growth opportunities

Reflecting the growth opportunities in a number of investment consulting sectors, Mercer has announced several executive appointments aimed at taking its leadership of the Asia Pacific region and global manager research boutiques businesses forward.

Simon Eagleton has been appointed Asia Pacific investment consulting regional business leader. Mr. Eagleton has served as the investment consulting business leader for Australia/New Zealand for the last four years and is a seasoned investment consulting practitioner with substantial market-facing and business leadership experience. Mr. Eagleton will build upon Mercer’s investment consulting presence in growth markets such as Greater China, India, Singapore and Korea, and will expand Mercer’s global services such as Mercer Sentinel ® and Mercer’s global manager research boutiques. He retains the business leadership role in Australia/New Zealand for the immediate future and will relocate to Singapore later this year. He joins the Investment Consulting Leadership Team (ICLT) that oversees the global investment consulting business.

Mr Eagleton succeeds Tony Cole, who over fourteen years has played a key part in building Mercer investment consulting’s leading position in the Asia Pacific region, holding Australian, and latterly, region-wide leadership positions. Mr Cole is taking on a new role centred on key client consulting, intellectual capital thought leadership and representing Mercer with government and other agencies in the Asia Pacific region. He continues as a member of the ICLT.

Anthony Lane, regional chief operating officer for investment consulting in Asia Pacific, will assume the role of leader of Mercer’s global manager research boutiques business, one of the fastest growing areas of Mercer’s investment consulting activities. Mr Lane brings extensive executive experience to this role. Mercer’s equity, fixed income, alternative and real estate boutiques help our clients to address the increasing complexity involved with structuring investment arrangements, designing bespoke mandates and assessing innovative and niche products (among the many facets of Mercer’s work) through research activities and
direct contact and involvement with clients. Mr Lane takes over from Jeff Schutes, the leader of the US investment consulting business.

“Asia Pacific is of particular interest to us, given the wealth of professional and private investors and growing savings pools. This realignment of responsibilities comes at an important time as we continue to build on our presence in growth markets within Asia and reinforce our leadership position in the region,” said Peter Promnitz, Regional Head of Mercer Asia Pacific.

“Both Tony and Simon have been excellent leaders for the Asia Pacific and Australia / New Zealand investment consulting businesses respectively. Our institutional clients, right across these markets will continue to benefit from their influence and their expertise as they each take on new challenges and continue to grow the business and extend Mercer’s best-in-class institutional investment advice to give our clients greater insight in an increasingly complex investment landscape.

“Similarly, we are excited at the prospect of further extending our global manager research boutiques which takes our research and consulting on investment managers to the next level and for the first time allow our clients formal direct access to the largest full -time team of experts on investment management strategies.”

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