Deals & People May 23, 2013

Mercer Appoints US Delegated DC Leader

Liana Magner has been appointed U.S. Delegated DC Leader for Mercer’s Investments business.
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Magner will have overall responsibility for the ongoing development of Mercer’s delegated DC (defined contribution) proposition, sometimes referred to as outsourced CIO, and will assume primary responsibility for new business generation in the DC Investments market on a national basis. She is based in Boston.  

Magner brings significant experience to this position, having served previously as Mercer’s market leader in New England. In this role, she monitored investment programs, conducted manager searches and asset allocation studies, provided performance evaluation to defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans and endowment funds and analyzed portfolio structure to create a more diversified and efficient portfolio.   

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Magner has more than 14 years of investment consulting experience with Mercer. She is a member of the Target Date Fund Strategic Research Committee and the national Defined Contribution Committee. She will continue to be part of Mercer’s National DC Leadership Team and will also retain her role as U.S. DC Sales Leader for both the Retirement Risk and Finance and Investments business.  

Prior to joining Mercer in 1998, Magner worked in the investment management industry as a marketing analyst at Quadra Capital Partners, and previously in operations at Boston Investor Services.   

Magner holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in economics from the University of New Hampshire. She is a CFA charterholder, and a member of the CFA Institute and the Atlanta Society of Security Analysts.

Deals & People May 23, 2013

USI Consulting Hires Associate VP and Actuary

Lisa Larsen was hired as an associate vice president and actuary by USI Consulting Group.
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Larsen has extensive experience in retirement planning, as an actuary and human resources consultant, and has 13 years of experience as an in-house corporate actuary involved in all types of benefit plans, both domestically and internationally. She was with a national actuarial firm for the last eight years and before that was the in-house actuary for Electronic Data Systems, a multinational IT company in Texas.

Larsen holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in actuarial mathematics from the University of Michigan. She is the director of continuing education for Enrolled Actuaries for the Actuaries’ Club of Hartford/Springfield, and is a member and past treasurer of Worldwide Employee Benefits Network.

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