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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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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide F3Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-05-08

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Josh Vogel from Sidoti & Co. Please proceed. Josh Vogel - Sidoti & Co. Hey good morning, thank you. You guys obviously did a good job, getting margins back up and keeping them up in the Insurance...

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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-02-05

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group. Ashwin Shirvaikar - City Group So I heavily appreciate the clarity of the press release separating out the impact of currency from the factor that you can actually control. My first question is,...

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• Zacks Buy List Highlights: Bucyrus International, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Trico Marine Services and Hurco Companies

  - 2008-03-12

  CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases the latest list of Zacks Rank Buy Stocks. Every day on Zacks.com, four stock picks are made based on criteria for the each of the four main styles of investing: Aggressive Growth, Growth & Income, Momentum and Value. The four Zacks Rank Buy stocks highlighted today...

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• Watson Wyatt Worldwide Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend

  - 2008-02-13

  ARLINGTON, Va. -- Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ: WW) announced that its board of directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.075 per common share for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. The dividend is payable on April 15, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of...

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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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• The Uncertain Future of Longevity

  BNET - 2005-10-19

  More than ever before, pension fund and life insurance liabilities are sensitive to changes in mortality. In the UK, annuity and deferred annuity liabilities of pension schemes and insurers amount to over ú1 trillion. Historically much attention has been paid to investment risks but increasingly recognition is being given to...

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• Saving Private Pension Insurance: An Evaluation of Current Proposals to Shore Up the PBGC

  BNET - 2005-04-01

  PBGC is not a system of private insurance, rather it is in large part a system of social insurance and it has been the approach to date that profitable firms that sponsor DB pensions subsidize firms with weaker prospects. Yet federal sponsorship of this particular social insurance program is unique...

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• Are There Alternatives to the Traditional Option Plan?

  BNET - 2004-11-01

  The introduction of the new accounting standard IFRS 2 by the International Accounting Standards Board and the intention to revise FAS 123 in the United States is likely to create a new investor focus on the efficiency of executives' share-based reward. This report seeks to explore whether the traditional share...

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• Accounting for Share Plans

  BNET - 2004-05-01

  The paper highlights that despite fierce resistance from some quarters, it now appears likely that the major international accounting standards bodies will require companies to account fully for the cost of all their employee share plans from 2005 onwards. Whilst this is of most obvious interest to company finance functions,...

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