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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-05

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. If you wish to ask a question please press star followed by one on your touchtone telephone. If your question has been answered or you wish to withdraw your question, please dial star followed by two. Questions will be taken in...

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• Workforce Management And Retirement In A 401(K) World

  BNET - 2007-09-01

  This article, the first in a two-part series based on 'Pension Aspirations and Realizations: A Perspective on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow', explores the ways retirement will be different, for both employers and employees, in a 401k world. The second article looks at ways of making Defined Benefit DB plans more...

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• Credit Ratings and Pensions Across the FTSE 350

  BNET - 2005-03-01

  Estimated impact of pension liability over enterprise value on credit ratings is perhaps not very large in absolute terms compared to other factors such as corporate leverage or volatility but is indeed statistically significant. This article presents an analysis that shows that credit rating agencies do take into account the...

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• The Role of Equities in Pension Funds

  BNET - 2005-01-18

  This paper considers the role of equities and other return-seeking assets in pension funds and how this will evolve in the coming years. While the analysis concentrates principally on defined benefit DB final salary plans, it also touches briefly on defined contribution DC and hybrid plans that will, in future,...

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• Ill-Health Benefits in a DC Environment

  BNET - 2005-01-05

  As the move from Defined Benefit DB to Defined Contribution DC schemes continues, many employers are beginning to realize replication of DB ill-health early retirement benefits is anything but straightforward in a DC world. This report explores a number of questions facing employers who are looking to evaluate their ill-health...

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• Changing Lanes: Thinking Ahead - Doing Risk Better

  BNET - 2004-12-01

  The understanding and management of risk remains a difficult subject for both the trustees and the sponsor and, increasingly, requires significantly enhanced levels of expertise as the complexity of pension fund management increases. This paper argues that pension funds can position themselves significantly better for the future. Changing lanes challenges...

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• Medical Benefits and Cost Sharing Trends, 2000-2003

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  There has been much discussion in recent years about increasing the financial tension on consumers at the point where they purchase medical care. Consumer driven health plans CDHPs have emerged that require higher cost sharing at point of purchase combined with decision support systems intended to help consumers purchase medical...

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• The Taxation of High Earners' Pensions - Key Issues

  BNET - 2004-09-01

  This paper focuses on the Finance Act 2004 that sets out how the Government intends the taxation of pension schemes will be changed from 6 April 2006 A day, including 'unapproved' schemes, such as funded unapproved retirement benefits schemes ('FURBS') and unfunded unapproved retirement benefit schemes ('UURBS'). It summarizes some...

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• Plan Design Issues for the 21st Century

  BNET - 2004-08-01

  The paper basically involves exploring the middle ground between defined benefit and the money purchase pension plans. Too many defined benefits and money purchase pension arrangement are like chalk and cheese. The paper deals with the Pension plan design survey which shows that around a quarter of plans that have...

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• Pension Security and the Corporate Convenant

  BNET - 2004-08-01

  The new legislation, coupled with the current funding position of most pension schemes, brings new challenges for trustees when setting or agreeing investment and contribution policies. The paper depicts that pension security depends on the level and certainty of fund collateral, strength of sponsor support and the quality of governance....

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