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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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• 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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• Absence Management

  BNET - 2005-03-01

  Over the last 10 years, sickness absence has worked its way up the Human Resource agenda. Changes to sick pay policy or methods of managing absence adopted by major employers are national news nowadays. This paper examines why this trend has developed and examines the response by business leaders in...

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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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