Jackson: Mercer includes 80 sub-$2B and over 24 sub-$500M hedge funds
John Jackson · Raelan Lambert, John Jackson, and Erik Sebusch – Inside Mercer Consulting (EP.345) · Oct 23, 2023 · at 28:21
John Jackson, head of hedge fund research at Mercer, refutes the misconception that Mercer's institutional size limits its roster to only mega-cap funds.
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“Roughly 80 of those are sub two billion in AUM today on that list. A little more than two dozen of those, I think, are below five hundred million in AUM.”
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