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• Onboarding Gives Employers Attractive Tool for New Talent

  BNET - 2006-07-01

  Onboarding is a process to exchange information with new hires and transfers, with the help of a Web site, to prepare them for their first day on the job. When it's done right, onboarding makes use of leading technology to enhance the new-hire experience, capture data to deliver HR services...

  Tags: Talent, Towers Perrin, Tool, Hire, Onboarding, Benefits, Human Resources

• Employers Are Revisiting Their Long-Term Retiree Medical Strategies

  BNET - 2005-12-09

  Now that most employers have completed the flurry of activities involved in qualifying for the Medicare prescription drug subsidy, they're stepping back to evaluate their broader retiree medical commitments. While the majority of large employers want to provide meaningful benefits to both actives and retirees, many can no longer commit...

  Tags: Strategy, Towers Perrin, Employer, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• Third Quarter 2005 Results for Defined Benefit Pension Plans in Selected Countries

  BNET - 2005-11-10

  This article reviews how global capital market performance in the third quarter of 2005 affected pension plans in major retirement markets worldwide. The impact of capital markets on these pension plans is twofold: On fund assets as a direct result of investment performance and on plan liabilities (as measured under...

  Tags: Capital Market, Towers Perrin, Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Pension Plan, Payroll Solutions, Benefits, Investment, Financial Services, Human Resources, Finance

• 2005 Stop Loss Survey Report

  BNET - 2005-10-11

  Stop loss premium rates increased an average of 15% from January 2004 to January 2005. This paper presents a survey that talk about several underlying trends that will continue to drive costs upwards. Meanwhile, some stop loss insurers are pursuing strategies to offset premium increases or even reduce premium outlays....

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Health Care, Survey, Marketing Research, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• The Fortune 100: Pension Funding Shortfalls Decline, But Deferred Costs Continue to Rise

  BNET - 2005-01-14

  The paper depicts that in past years, pension plans, which have long operated in relative obscurity, have become headline news. Between 2000 and 2002, sharply declining investment returns and low interest rates converged to push pension plan assets down and liabilities up, sending funded ratios to their lowest levels in...

  Tags: Capital Market, Towers Perrin, Pension Plan, Pension, Financial Services, Investment, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Finance, Human Resources

• Workers' Compensation Terrorism Reinsurance Pool Feasibility Study: Summary of Study Findings and Conclusions

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  This document highlights key findings from a study that explores the viability of a private market solution to help manage the threat of terrorism for workers' compensation insurance. The statutory nature of workers' compensation insurance creates a unique situation for the market, since WC providers cannot introduce terrorism coverage exclusions,...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Compensation, Terrorism, Worker, Homeland Security, Benefits, Government, Human Resources

• Strategically Mining the Opportunities

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  The long workers compensation insurance crisis in California could at last be subsiding, thanks to legislation passed in September 2003 and April 2004. These new laws brought change to a system that had become nearly unworkable in the last few years for the state, for insurers, for employers and even...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Workers Compensation, Employer, Insurance Company, Insurance, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, Finance

• Upfront: Pension Plan Pain Eases

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  Pension plan sponsors have been breathing a little easier over the past year; strong capital market results have boosted plan funding levels after three years of dramatic declines. Towers Perrin's hypothetical benchmark pension plan notched a 20.7 percent return in 2003, it's highest since 1995. Over the prior three years,...

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• What's Happening With Costs and What to Do About Them

  BNET - 2003-11-01

  Workers compensation has been receiving considerable media attention, particularly in California and Florida. For many California employers, average rates have increased more than 50 percent in the last two years. The article provides a perspective on how people have got where they are and what employers can do to respond...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Workers Compensation, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Human Resources

• Rewarding Mission Critical Employees

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  In every company, there are key mission critical roles and functions that significantly affect business performance. Organizations that recognize the contributions of the individuals performing these roles and functions, and calibrate their reward programs accordingly, emerge as winners. Customized rewards cannot solve every compensation problem. Unchecked customization can, in itself,...

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