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• Winning Strategies for a Global Workforce: Attracting, Retaining and Engaging Employees for Competitive Advantage

  BNET - 2006-01-25

  The Towers Perrin Workforce Study was fielded via the Web by Harris Interactive in June and July of 2005 using a standard questionnaire translated into local languages. Roughly 86,000 employees around the world completed the survey, all of whom were employed full time by midsize to large organizations. Key statistics...

  Tags: Strategy, Towers Perrin, Competitive Advantage, Workforce, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing Research, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

• 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...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Acquisition, Performance, Pricing Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Pricing, Corporate Law, Insurance, Marketing Research, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

• Life Insurance CFO Survey 12: Investment Risk Management

  BNET - 2005-11-01

  Investment risks represent a major financial risk exposure to life insurers. The survey depicted in this paper finds that companies' overall approaches to investment risk management remain fairly traditional. Even so, insurers are beginning to use sophisticated tools and techniques to measure and model investment risk. They are also relying...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Investment, Risk Management, Survey, Life Insurance, Investment Risk, Insurance, Financial Planning, Productivity, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Marketing

• 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

• Life Insurance CFO Survey 11: Managing Current and Future Demands on Capital

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  This article talks about a survey that focuses on the issues related to managing current and future demands on capital. Capital management is a key concern for the majority of Chief Financial Officers CFOs surveyed. Life insurers are using a variety of traditional methods to address their current capital needs....

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• 2004 Pricing Methodology Survey Results

  BNET - 2005-06-01

  This article discusses the key findings from Tillinghast's 2004 Pricing Methodology Survey of individual life, annuity and health products. While similar to other surveys this study also includes individual disability income products. The new survey also differentiates between accumulation-oriented universal life products and protection-oriented universal life products with no-lapse guarantees.

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• Life Insurance CFO Survey 10: Distribution Issues

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  This paper focuses on issues related to distribution and, in particular, the effects of recent regulatory inquiries and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC broker disclosure model amendment. Not surprisingly, the survey results in the paper showed that distribution is a critical issue for most life insurance companies, one...

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• Managing Overconfidence in Pricing

  BNET - 2004-02-01

  Insurers can overcome mispricing by taking practical steps to implement a "Control Cycle." The cycle improves decision making by enabling actuaries and underwriters to learn from the past. If insurers did a better job of managing "overconfidence" among their actuaries and underwriters when they make pricing and underwriting decisions, those...

  Tags: Towers Perrin, Actuary, Insurance Company, Underwriter, Pricing Strategy, Insurance, Pricing, Marketing Research, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Marketing

• Survey: Workers May Bolt When Economy Recovers

  BNET - 2003-05-30

  A workforce study released by human-resource consultancy Towers Perrin offers good news and bad news for employers. The good news is that according to "Working Today: The Towers Perrin 2003 Talent Report," employees still have a very strong work ethic. They remain committed to helping their companies succeed, despite the...

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• Managing Overconfidence

  BNET - 2003-03-01

  For years, behavioral scientists have talked about the need for businesses to manage overconfidence. Nowhere is the issue of overconfidence more important than in the property/casualty insurance industry, particularly in pricing and underwriting. Actuaries and underwriters make critical assumptions, based on imperfect knowledge, about the future costs of business being...

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