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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide F4Q09 (Qtr End 6/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-08-13

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator (Operator's Instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Andrew Fones with UBS. Please proceed with your question. Andrew Fones - UBS Yes. Thanks, John. I was wondering if you could just kind of give us a sense of how...

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• Towers Perrin: $700 Billion Bailout Plan is "No Excuse" to Forgo Fair Value Accounting

  - 2008-10-08

  STAMFORD, Conn. -- Now that the government has pledged support for a $700 billion economic bailout plan, look for the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC and accounting authorities to help out, according to global professional services firm Towers Perrin. The most talked-about relief in regulatory circles is a temporary -...

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• Risk Management In Strategic Decision Making

  BNET - 2007-03-01

  Risk management is not new. Insurance companies have been doing it for centuries. Unfortunately, they do not have an exemplary track record, as losses over the past decade have shown. Some risks have been badly managed and others completely overlooked. However, the industry's position has been changing rapidly over the...

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• Towers Perrin

  - 2007-03-01

  Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm, announced that PATRICK FINEGAN has joined the firm's Enterprise Risk Management practice as a senior consultant. Prior to joining Towers Perrin, Finegan was managing director of Finegan & Company LLC, a corporate finance advisory firm. He has published articles in several specialty trade...

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• Analyser to give free client review.

  - 2006-11-27

  FundsNetwork has created a free with profits review service with Cazalet Consulting and Towers Perrin Tillinghast. The Fidelity-owned investment platform will launch the service, developed with actuaries and stochastic modelling experts Towers Perrin Tillinghast and insurance and with profits specialists Cazalet Consulting, early...

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• Operational Due Diligence for Value

  BNET - 2006-08-24

  With hedge fund assets bulging and private equity firms proliferating, investor interest in the Property/Casualty (P/C) insurance industry is growing. As insurance companies find fewer opportunities for organic growth, internal strategic interest in acquisitions is also heating up. In this environment, some companies are evaluating whether this is the right...

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• A Principles-Based Reserves and Capital Standard: A New Standard for Determining Capital and Reserves Will Reshape the U.S. Life Insurance Business and Change the Competitive Landscape

  BNET - 2006-08-24

  The introduction of a Principles-Based Approach PBA to determine statutory reserves and minimum capital for all life and annuity business represents a watershed event for the U.S. life insurance industry. It comes as other parts of the world proceed on different paths toward a global standard that replaces fixed ratios...

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• 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...

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• Elevate Claim Performance Via Technology

  BNET - 2005-11-07

  Over the last decade, insurers have responded to competitive pressures by emphasizing tighter expense management and pricing segmentation as key strategies leading to profitability. Top-performing carriers have also turned to data and technology, seeking opportunities to automate work, outsource noncore functions to lower cost resources, or internally shift work and...

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• Gaining Position With Technology

  BNET - 2005-11-07

  Telematics, the use of wireless communications and Global Positioning System GPS tracking, may change the way automobile insurance, both personal and commercial, is priced. Individual rating of a driver, to supplement class rating, now appears to be feasible. The paper highlights the profound changes in auto insurance market leadership that...

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