US.” As soon as the deal’s complete, Mercer will combine the team responsible for developing and maintaining manager research tools such as Mercer Performance Analytics (MPA) with Callan’s team.

MPA was built by Steve Jackman, principal at Mercer Investment Consulting, based in

Melbourne.

“Callan has a tool that’s similar [to MPA],” Cole said. “Our technical people who built our tool and have maintained it have looked at the Callan tool and seen that it has capabilities that our system doesn’t have. That will be a clear area where we will be able to enhance the tools we use in consulting.”