Richard Nuzum, managing director at consultant William M Mercer in Tokyo, is moving to Singapore on 15 September to assume the role of country head. He will retain his job as the regional head of the firm's investment consulting practice.
Mercer has hired four Japan investment consultant professionals in the past two months. All of them may be required to fill Nuzum's shoes. He has served in Japan for five years. In that time, he says, the firm has made fledging consulting businesses in pensions and MA into high-growth ones. Personnel have expanded from 20 professionals to about 90. We're still growing as quickly as we can find people, he says. Whereas...
