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• Towers Perrin Survey Shows Neither Employers Nor Employees Are Getting What They Need from Current Benefit Programs

  - 2007-03-07

  Employees Are Underestimating Impact on Them and Failing to Adequately Prepare for Greater Risk and Responsibility

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• Emerging health-care trends: insurance-cost increases slowing, but businesses want net decreases.(FOCUS: Health Care and Benefits, Insurance, Education, Training, Placement Services)

  - 2005-11-28

  Employee health-benefit cost ranked among the top issues facing Fairfield County businesses, with 70 percent of them saying they were "extremely concerned" about the soaring insurance premiums, according to a poll recently conducted by the Employee health-benefit cost ranked among the top issues facing ...

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• Use of captives for benefit funding to surge: Survey.(News)

  - 2004-02-02

  Byline: JERRY GEISEL Spurred on by significant cost savings, more employers are planning to fund employee benefit risks through their captive insurance companies, according to a new survey. Right now, only a handful of employers around the world Byline: JERRY GEISEL...

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• Outsourcing firms broaden, integrate services offered; Facing competition, vendors respond to employer demands.(Benefits Management)(human resource department outsourcing)

  - 2003-07-28

  Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK As the outsourcing of employee benefits administration becomes more popular, the number and types of vendors providing the service to employers are proliferating. Even companies that have been in the benefits outsourcing bu Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK ...

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• Global convergence in remuneration patterns, BUSINESS TIMES

  - 2002-02-21

  Business Times Malaysia 02-21-2002 LEADING companies around the world are developing global compensation and benefit strategies that are helping them stay ahead of the competition. These companies are finding that their human resource strat Business Times Malaysia ...

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• Captives, Alternative Risk Financing to Increase in 2002; Tillinghast - Towers Perrin Predicts Increased Use of Captives for Property/Casualty and Benefits Risks

  - 2001-11-20

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• PUTTING ON THE BRAKES: Ericsson halts global benefits coordination; Company tells consultant Towers Perrin to shelve plans because finances are tight.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-06-11

  STOCKHOLM - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has put on ice plans to coordinate its worldwide employee benefits program, because the Swedish telecommunications group hit the financial skids earlier this year. Last month, senior Ericsson executives f STOCKHOLM - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson has put on ice...

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• Boon for benefit consultants ; Tech tools, demand for outsourcing foster big revenue growth.

  - 2000-12-11

  The robust economy, the greater use of technology by employers, a continuing demand for outsourcing services and the greater importance placed on human resources have combined to turn 2000 into a banner year for benefit consultants. ``It's one of th The robust economy, the greater...

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• REAP THE BENEFITS: Defined benefit costs lower than 401(k)s, study shows ;Bottom line boosted at companies with overfunded plans.

  - 1999-12-13

  VALHALLA, N.Y. - Surprise, surprise. A new study shows defined benefit plans now might be cheaper than defined contribution plans for companies with overfunded plans. The study, by Towers Perrin, the large Valhalla-based employee benefits consulti VALHALLA, N.Y. - Surprise, surprise. A new...

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• U.K. survey finds trend toward flexible, responsive benefits.

  - 1998-11-02

  MATTHEW MacDERMOTT British companies are offering their employees more choice in the benefits they receive, according to a new survey. The survey, conducted by management consulting firm Towers Perrin in London, shows that company car, health ca MATTHEW MacDERMOTT ...

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