Marjolein Sol, the head of Mercer's investment-consulting practice in the Netherlands - Europe's second biggest pensions market - has left the firm to join a Dutch asset manager. She has been succeeded by Jelle Beenen, a senior consultant at the firm.

Sol has left in order to become chief investment officer at Syntrus Achmea, a €58bn ($75bn) domestic asset-management group affiliated to Dutch insurance group Eureko. She succeeds Bert Schouws on May 17.