Global Investment Forums 2026

The Global Investment Forums convene asset owners, key stakeholders and leaders in their field of research to tackle the big themes shaping markets and investment practice today and over the years to come. Each event brings together leading thinkers across the investment landscape to learn, share and connect through keynote addresses, breakout sessions and panel discussions. Beyond these events, you can access the latest insights on our digital research platform MercerInsight^® Community, home to some of the best research and insights in the industry.

This year’s theme, “Post consensus”, reflects a marketplace where many of the assumptions that shaped the past several decades are being reconsidered or overturned altogether. The global order that once relied on relatively open trade, coordinated monetary policy, and a shared belief in the benefits of globalisation is now giving way to a more fragmented, contested environment.

We are seeing the pillars underpinning the economic and financial system come under strain. Deglobalisation is reshaping supply chains and capital flows, as nations prioritise security, resilience, and domestic investment. Free trade, once taken as the default, is narrowing as regional blocs and bilateral agreements replace broad-based multilateralism.

In this post-consensus world, there is no single playbook. Instead, competing economic orders are emerging, each with its own rules, risks, and opportunities. For investors, the result may be heightened uncertainty, greater dispersion in outcomes, and the need to navigate markets without the anchor of broadly shared policy direction.

• Save USD 16,000 on registration fees
• One seat at each of the five Forums
• One virtual Learn, Share and Connect session per year, exclusive to global members 
• Up to five one-to-one meetings offered as part of each Forum (i.e. five times a year)
• Flexibility to customise your seats (skip one Forum to double up on another)
• A 10% discount on additional tickets to any specific Forum, limit of three per firm
• A 20% discount on additional global memberships, limit of three per firm
• Access to the Forum Hub website with all Forum-related materials
• Complimentary copy of our Global Manager Search Trends Year-End report 
• Mercer's Global Asset Managers Fee survey (1)

Important notices

1. Based on previous year's attendance at The Mercer Global Investment Forums
   
   
2. For the purposes of the Forum, an “asset owner” is a client or contact of Mercer who is an executive, board member or other key decision-maker of a retirement plan, wealth management firm, insurer, endowment, foundation, government agency or similar entity.
   
   
3. Mercer's receipt of revenue from a fund manager will not result in any preferential treatment by Mercer when evaluating or recommending managers, their affiliates, products or strategies.

Mercer accepts no responsibility for the views or opinions of the speakers or any other persons at the event.

Mercer reserves the right to make changes in the agenda or speaker roster at any time without prior notice.

Managers are limited to a maximum of three registrations per Forum. Each registration covers only one person.

Mercer has the right to decline any registrations received from competitors and other potential delegates that do not match the targeted audience.

By registering for the Mercer Global Investment Forum, you consent to Mercer disclosing your financial institution's name to third parties for the purposes of conflict of interest disclosure.

Cancellations must be communicated via email to Maria Reyes. Cancellation requests submitted two months before the Forum will be refunded in full. Cancellation requests submitted one month before the Forum will be refunded at 50%. Except as set out above or in cases of force majeure or termination for breach, a refund is not permitted.