What if you had more time to focus on the strategic issues of your business while improving participant performance and mitigating your risks? Delegated solutions may be the answer.
Over the past few years, delegation has grown significantly among plan sponsors — and for good reason. As a plan sponsor, you may have limited time and resources to keep up with the demands and challenges of a complex marketplace, the latest investments trends, or management of regulatory filings and administrative burdens — to say nothing of heightened scrutiny by your participants.
Beyond advice, we can implement our investment ideas on your behalf. In a delegated approach, we act as a fiduciary and investment manager. Your plan fiduciaries delegate or share responsibilities for selection, termination, and monitoring of fund managers and strategies and may also participate in portfolio construction and asset allocation within custom funds. We can also provide additional vendor oversight, operational and implementation support.
Our delegated solution allows you to access Mercer’s vast economies of scale. This enables you to benefit from greater investment diversification and potentially lower investment manager fees. By choosing this investment model, you would work with Mercer to proactively implement your investment strategy across a range of specialist investment managers. Our experts then effectively act alongside the investment committee with respect to the hiring, oversight, and replacement of investment managers.
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1 Data is as of December 21, 2017. Please see “Important Notices” for further information on assets under management and assets under advisement.
2 Pensions & Investments Survey, March 31, 2017.
3 Cerulli Associates, The Cerulli Report – U.S. Outsourced CIO Function 2017: Identifying Emerging Opportunities Across Institutional Investors.
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