As part of his remit, O’Connor will be responsible for the overall asset allocation strategy of Mercer’s client portfolios, with a specific emphasis on adding value through the use of Mercer’s Dynamic Asset Allocation service.
O’Connor has over 16 years experience as a market strategist and investor and was for the last 10 years propriety trader and strategist for Credit Suisse in London. Prior to this he was an equity strategist at BZW/CreditSuisse.
Hooman Kaveh, European chief Investment officer for Mercer’s Investment Management business, said: “Paul’s extensive market knowledge and short-term trading focus will provide added value to fiduciary management mandates through dynamically capturing investment opportunities and taking evasive action when markets are vulnerable to set-backs. This will supplement Mercer’s dynamic asset allocation process which provides added value through a medium term asset allocation process, and Paul will contribute to this process.”
