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WEBINAR REPLAY - FINANCIAL WELLNESS: MOVING FROM ART TO SCIENCE
What if you could secure your foundation, achieve greater prosperity, and inspire confidence — in your business and with your employees? As the retirement landscape continues to evolve, you may need ways to ensure your employees trust your programs, planning, savings, and investment advice, and at the same time, generate more value for your business.
Defined Contribution and Financial Wellness Spectrum of Services
Click on boxes below to read three different scenarios of how we can work with you.(1)
DO IT YOURSELF
- TOOLS & RESEARCH
- ADVICE
- DELEGATED SOLUTIONS
• Mercer solution: Leveraging Mercer’s “Inside Employees’ Minds” survey and our “Financial Courage Index” provided insight. We advised on the concept of peer signaling to create a “nest egg” campaign.
• Results: 83% of targeted segments took action that could improve their finances.
• Mercer solution: Mercer conducted a plan line-up review, recommended reducing
• Results: Reduced annual investment expenses by $2.3 million per year through
• Mercer solution: After reviewing delegated vs. advisory models against client objectives,
• Results: Enhanced governance structure reduced risk, and reduced investment management and operating fees by $2.1M per year.
• Mercer solution: Leveraging Mercer’s “Inside Employees’ Minds” survey and our “Financial Courage Index” provided insight. We advised on the concept of peer signaling to create a “nest egg” campaign.
• Results: 83% of targeted segments took action that could improve their finances.
• Mercer solution: Mercer conducted a plan line-up review, recommended reducing
• Results: Reduced annual investment expenses by $2.3 million per year through
• Mercer solution: After reviewing delegated vs. advisory models against client objectives,
• Results: Enhanced governance structure reduced risk, and reduced investment management and operating fees by $2.1M per year.
DO IT FOR ME
Governance, Plan Design, Administration
Get the operational infrastructure support you need for enhanced governance and risk management.
MOREAdvisory Services
Learn about our advisory services, investment consulting and philosophy, and ”whole of life” perspective.
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Delegated Solutions
A “do-it-for-me approach” that may help you mitigate fiduciary risk and have more time to spend on the strategic issues of your business. Mercer defines the plan investment menu to align with your desired structure and handles all implementation and plan evaluation— we offer a continuum of delegated solutions.
MOREImproving Your Outcomes, Improving Your Benefits
From governance to mitigating fiduciary risk, our defined contribution solutions help you generate more value for your business and your employees. We can offer the right level of risk management from plan oversight and ongoing monitoring to customized financial wellness programs that seek to improve your employees’ well-being, enhance participant success, and enable your employees to take more control over their financial futures.
Why Choose Mercer for Defined Contribution & Financial Wellness?
- Leadership: We are one of the largest OCIO providers globally and offer a continuum of delegated DC solutions for large companies.5
- Expertise: For 45+ years, we have been designing and managing customized defined contribution plans.
- Holistic,
client focused : Our integrated solutions go beyond asset accumulation to focus on all aspects of a participant’s life. - Innovation: For mid-sized plans, Mercer Wise 401(k) offers a comprehensive retirement solution, particularly for mid-sized plans.
- Financial Wellness: We’ve spent years researching and providing advice on financial wellness and have worked with hundreds of financial wellness providers and created customized programs for clients.
Please See Important Notices For Further Information.
1 These case studies are illustrations of Mercer's capabilities provided to certain clients. Client results will vary and there can be no guarantee of similar results.
2 Pensions & Investments. Pensions & Investments Survey, November 27, 2017. Please see “Important Notices” for more information on Assets Under Advisement.
3 Data is as of December 31, 2017. Please see “Important Notices” for more information on Assets Under Management.
4 Independent Research in Responsible Investment, Survey 2017.
5 CIO 2016 Outsourced-Chief Investment Officer Survey February 28, 2017. Please see Important Notices for further information on Assets under Advisement and Assets under Management.