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Mercer and Oliver Wyman Group are two operating units owned by the same parent company, Marsh & McLennan. Mercer is described as a human resources consultancy while Oliver Wyman is described as a management consultancy.[1] However, there seems to be some confusion since the two used to be a part of the same operating unit within Marsh & McLennan, named simply "Mercer". In 2005, "Mercer" was split into "Mercer Human Resources Consulting" and "Mercer Speciality Consulting".[2]
Recently some information has been deleted from Oliver Wyman and added to this article regarding the management consulting work of pre-2005 Mercer. I propose that management consulting content be kept on Oliver Wyman and human resources consulting content be kept on Mercer, since that is how MMC describes its units today.[3] It is also consistent with the Wikipedia categories, which put Oliver Wyman under "Management" and Mercer under "HR". This would remove information about Temple, Barker & Sloane, which was a predecessor of Mercer Management Consulting [4] and Delta Consulting Group, a management consultancy which became a part of Oliver Wyman in 2007.[5] Any thoughts?
[1]
https://www.reuters.com/companies/MMC
[2]
https://irnews.mmc.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mmc-announces-organizational-changes-mercer/
[3]
https://sec.report/CIK/0000062709
[4]
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/salem-ma/carl-sloane-6533995
[5]
https://www.consultancy.uk/news/2977/hanna-moukanas-leads-french-division-of-oliver-wyman
The following text has been removed and should not be re-added until it can be supported with citations:
Major clients include:
Boopsie2008 ( talk) 03:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC) Sorry, I don't know how to make a "Discussion" page, so I'll put this here. Missing from the first section is when William M. Mercer, Inc. merged with Meidinger and then Hansen (not their complete names, nor is that order in which it happened necessarily correct), which I believe were smaller employee benefit consulting firms, and took the name Mercer, Meidinger, Hansen Inc. (I think this was the official name. Tossed all my business cards from that time, which was the mid '80's, so I can't easily verify that, but somebody ought to be able to.) Boopsie2008 ( talk) 03:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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Currently, the article's "Revenue" field lists 2016 revenue of $4.6 billion; I would suggest replacing this with the firm's most recent annual revenue, which was $5 billion for full-year 2019.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (see page 7): https://irnews.mmc.com/static-files/d0ca4182-888e-463f-8e25-5fdc5498f9a1
AnnaEmily ( talk) 21:06, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Regards, Spintendo 10:08, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
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Currently, the article lists the number of employees as ~23,000 as of 2016. This is outdated - as of 2020, Mercer has 25,000 employees.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (see the first sentence under "Global leadership"): https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 19:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
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In the third paragraph under "History," which begins, "In 2004...," the name of Mercer's parent company is styled incorrectly. It should be "Marsh & McLennan" (not "Marsh and Mclennan") -- i.e., there should be an ampersand (&) instead of "and" and the "L" in "McLennan" should be capitalized.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (near the end of the page, the section entitled "Marsh & McLennan Companies"): https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 14:45, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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Under the "Wealth" sub-head in the "Lines of business" section, I would suggest updating the following sentence as follows:
Current: "In December 2017, Mercer's investment assets under delegated management reached above $200 billion."
Suggested Update: "In December 2019, Mercer's investment assets under management reached above $300 billion."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
AnnaEmily ( talk) 14:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Mercer's sale of its US defined contribution administration business to Transamerica is missing. I would add it to the following paragraph (new sentence in bold):
"In 2015, Mercer made two acquisitions. It acquired Hopkinton, MA-based Comptryx, a workforce metrics company offering surveying, modeling and analytics services, and also acquired HRBS, a provider of career and talent consulting and information services to clients across Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China. In the same year, Mercer sold its US defined contribution administration business to Transamerica."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
AnnaEmily ( talk) 15:02, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
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Mercer's early 2016 acquisitions are missing. I would add them to the following paragraph (edits in bold):
"In early 2016, Mercer acquired CPSG Partners, a Workday services partner, to expand the size and capabilities of its existing Workday practice, and the Positive Ageing Company, a UK-based independent advisor on issues surrounding the aging workforce. In December 2016, Mercer acquired Pillar Administration, Australia from the NSW State Government. Pillar was Australia's fourth largest superannuation administration provider, with more than $100 billion in funds under administration across 1.1 million member accounts."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.uk.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-acquires-positive-ageing-company.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:33, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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Mercer's 2017 acquisitions are missing -- I would add them to this paragraph (edits in bold):
"In 2017, Mercer secured an equity stake in PayScale, a provider of compensation management software and real-time salary data, as part of a strategic alliance. Later that year, Mercer agreed to acquire Frankfurt-based Promerit, a consultancy specializing in HR digitalization, and business and HR transformation. Also in 2017, Mercer combined its investment and retirement consulting practices into a new Wealth consulting division. In December 2019, Mercer's investment assets under management reached above $300 billion."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-and-payscale-alliance.html
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-acquires-frankfurt-based-promerit.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
AnnaEmily - the references you have suggested are all from the company website and are not considered as independent, unbiased sources. Please share third party, reliable sources and re-open this edit request. Westminster88 (talk)
06:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
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Mercer's 2018 acquisitions are missing. I would add the following:
"In 2018, Mercer made a number of strategic acquisitions: Evolve Intelligence, an Australian-based talent strategy business with a focus on succession risk management, talent benchmarking and talent competitive intelligence; Summit Strategies Group, an investment consultancy headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri; the investment consulting, alternatives consulting and wealth management operations of Pavilion Financial Corporation; and Mettl, a provider of cloud-based technology and data sciences-driven talent assessments, based in India."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-completes-acquisition-of-summit-strategies-group.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:49, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
AnnaEmily - the references you have suggested are all from the company website and are not considered as independent, unbiased sources. Please share third party, reliable sources and re-open this edit request.
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Mercer and Oliver Wyman Group are two operating units owned by the same parent company, Marsh & McLennan. Mercer is described as a human resources consultancy while Oliver Wyman is described as a management consultancy.[1] However, there seems to be some confusion since the two used to be a part of the same operating unit within Marsh & McLennan, named simply "Mercer". In 2005, "Mercer" was split into "Mercer Human Resources Consulting" and "Mercer Speciality Consulting".[2]
Recently some information has been deleted from Oliver Wyman and added to this article regarding the management consulting work of pre-2005 Mercer. I propose that management consulting content be kept on Oliver Wyman and human resources consulting content be kept on Mercer, since that is how MMC describes its units today.[3] It is also consistent with the Wikipedia categories, which put Oliver Wyman under "Management" and Mercer under "HR". This would remove information about Temple, Barker & Sloane, which was a predecessor of Mercer Management Consulting [4] and Delta Consulting Group, a management consultancy which became a part of Oliver Wyman in 2007.[5] Any thoughts?
[1]
https://www.reuters.com/companies/MMC
[2]
https://irnews.mmc.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mmc-announces-organizational-changes-mercer/
[3]
https://sec.report/CIK/0000062709
[4]
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/salem-ma/carl-sloane-6533995
[5]
https://www.consultancy.uk/news/2977/hanna-moukanas-leads-french-division-of-oliver-wyman
The following text has been removed and should not be re-added until it can be supported with citations:
Major clients include:
Boopsie2008 ( talk) 03:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC) Sorry, I don't know how to make a "Discussion" page, so I'll put this here. Missing from the first section is when William M. Mercer, Inc. merged with Meidinger and then Hansen (not their complete names, nor is that order in which it happened necessarily correct), which I believe were smaller employee benefit consulting firms, and took the name Mercer, Meidinger, Hansen Inc. (I think this was the official name. Tossed all my business cards from that time, which was the mid '80's, so I can't easily verify that, but somebody ought to be able to.) Boopsie2008 ( talk) 03:24, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. Per WP:V |
Currently, the article's "Revenue" field lists 2016 revenue of $4.6 billion; I would suggest replacing this with the firm's most recent annual revenue, which was $5 billion for full-year 2019.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (see page 7): https://irnews.mmc.com/static-files/d0ca4182-888e-463f-8e25-5fdc5498f9a1
AnnaEmily ( talk) 21:06, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
Regards, Spintendo 10:08, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Currently, the article lists the number of employees as ~23,000 as of 2016. This is outdated - as of 2020, Mercer has 25,000 employees.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (see the first sentence under "Global leadership"): https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 19:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
In the third paragraph under "History," which begins, "In 2004...," the name of Mercer's parent company is styled incorrectly. It should be "Marsh & McLennan" (not "Marsh and Mclennan") -- i.e., there should be an ampersand (&) instead of "and" and the "L" in "McLennan" should be capitalized.
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
Reference (near the end of the page, the section entitled "Marsh & McLennan Companies"): https://www.mercer.com/about-mercer.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 14:45, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Under the "Wealth" sub-head in the "Lines of business" section, I would suggest updating the following sentence as follows:
Current: "In December 2017, Mercer's investment assets under delegated management reached above $200 billion."
Suggested Update: "In December 2019, Mercer's investment assets under management reached above $300 billion."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
AnnaEmily ( talk) 14:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
Mercer's sale of its US defined contribution administration business to Transamerica is missing. I would add it to the following paragraph (new sentence in bold):
"In 2015, Mercer made two acquisitions. It acquired Hopkinton, MA-based Comptryx, a workforce metrics company offering surveying, modeling and analytics services, and also acquired HRBS, a provider of career and talent consulting and information services to clients across Asia, particularly Hong Kong, Singapore and mainland China. In the same year, Mercer sold its US defined contribution administration business to Transamerica."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
AnnaEmily ( talk) 15:02, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. |
Mercer's early 2016 acquisitions are missing. I would add them to the following paragraph (edits in bold):
"In early 2016, Mercer acquired CPSG Partners, a Workday services partner, to expand the size and capabilities of its existing Workday practice, and the Positive Ageing Company, a UK-based independent advisor on issues surrounding the aging workforce. In December 2016, Mercer acquired Pillar Administration, Australia from the NSW State Government. Pillar was Australia's fourth largest superannuation administration provider, with more than $100 billion in funds under administration across 1.1 million member accounts."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.uk.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-acquires-positive-ageing-company.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:33, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. |
Mercer's 2017 acquisitions are missing -- I would add them to this paragraph (edits in bold):
"In 2017, Mercer secured an equity stake in PayScale, a provider of compensation management software and real-time salary data, as part of a strategic alliance. Later that year, Mercer agreed to acquire Frankfurt-based Promerit, a consultancy specializing in HR digitalization, and business and HR transformation. Also in 2017, Mercer combined its investment and retirement consulting practices into a new Wealth consulting division. In December 2019, Mercer's investment assets under management reached above $300 billion."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-and-payscale-alliance.html
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-acquires-frankfurt-based-promerit.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:43, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
AnnaEmily - the references you have suggested are all from the company website and are not considered as independent, unbiased sources. Please share third party, reliable sources and re-open this edit request. Westminster88 (talk)
06:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. |
Mercer's 2018 acquisitions are missing. I would add the following:
"In 2018, Mercer made a number of strategic acquisitions: Evolve Intelligence, an Australian-based talent strategy business with a focus on succession risk management, talent benchmarking and talent competitive intelligence; Summit Strategies Group, an investment consultancy headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri; the investment consulting, alternatives consulting and wealth management operations of Pavilion Financial Corporation; and Mettl, a provider of cloud-based technology and data sciences-driven talent assessments, based in India."
(Disclosure: I am an employee of Mercer, and therefore I have a conflict of interest, so I'm hoping another editor can review and make this change.)
References:
https://www.mercer.com/newsroom/mercer-completes-acquisition-of-summit-strategies-group.html
AnnaEmily ( talk) 22:49, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
AnnaEmily - the references you have suggested are all from the company website and are not considered as independent, unbiased sources. Please share third party, reliable sources and re-open this edit request.
Westminster88 (
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06:18, 7 September 2020 (UTC)