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Mercer Expands Investment Management Team

Harriet Davies 11 February 2010

Mercer Expands Investment Management Team

Mercer, the consulting and investment services company, has expanded its implemented solutions team, which is part of its investment management business, with the addition of two investment specialists.

Niall O'Sullivan joins the company as a liability-driven investment (LDI) portfolio manager and will be based in Dublin. In this role he will be responsible for overseeing the LDI and derivatives-based downside protection funds for Mercer’s dynamic de-risking solution, which primarily caters for institutional pension funds. He will also be responsible for overseeing the management of the existing fixed income portfolios within the investment management business.

Mr O’Sullivan was latterly a principal at QED Dublin, where he focused on solutions-driven investment opportunities with banks and insurance companies. He has also worked on the structured business desk of Bank of Ireland Global Markets.

Mercer has also appointed Rekha Ravichandran as implemented consulting specialist. Ms Ravichandran will be based in Mercer's Leeds and Birmingham offices and be responsible for serving clients in the Midlands and north of England.

Ms Ravichandran rejoins the company from KPMG, where she held an investment consulting position with a focus on advising the selection of fiduciary managers. Prior to this she worked for Mercer’s investment consulting business.

“These two specialist appointments provide further strength to our team, following the strong demand we have recently experienced for implemented investment solutions. In Europe, we have secured £2.4 billion of additional assets under management over the last year,” said Tom Murphy, head of Mercer’s investment management business in Europe.

Mercer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, the US-listed group.

 

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