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• Firms should consider multiple risk factors in freezes

  - 2006-06-01

  About 60% of businesses would freeze their pensions if they endangered cash flow, while 48% would do so if they threatened the bottom line and 43% would do so if they could harm credit ratings. In fact, 32% of companies were turning away new entrants to c About 60% of...

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• U.S. Senior Finance Executives Challenged on How to Solve Pension Risks, Towers Perrin Survey Finds; More Than Half of Companies Surveyed Consider Pension-Related Risk to Be Significant Risk Management Issue

  - 2006-03-22

  STAMFORD, Conn. -- While senior financial executives in the U.S. tend to see defined benefit pension plans as posing a major risk management challenge, more than two-thirds participating in a recent survey believe that available solutions are usually too expensive or ineffective, according to Towers Perrin, a global professional services...

  Tags: PENSION, risk management, survey, Towers Perrin

• The Fortune 100: Pension Funding Shortfalls Decline, But Deferred Costs Continue to Rise

  BNET - 2005-01-14

  The paper depicts that in past years, pension plans, which have long operated in relative obscurity, have become headline news. Between 2000 and 2002, sharply declining investment returns and low interest rates converged to push pension plan assets down and liabilities up, sending funded ratios to their lowest levels in...

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• Pension Funding Levels Improved Slightly in 2004, but Deferred Pension Costs Continue to Rise, According to Towers Perrin Estimates

  - 2005-01-10

  STAMFORD, Conn. -- Deferred Costs Now Total a Quarter of a Trillion Dollars for the Fortune 100

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• Belt-Tightening. (Employment).(survey of Florida businesses concerns cost-cutting measures )(Illustration)

  - 2002-12-01

  Belt-Tightening. Employment Holding off on hiring and reducing staff travel were the chief ways Florida companies cut costs in 2002. One-third of CEO respondents did not take any cost-cutting steps in 2002. Q. Which of these steps, if any, did your organization...

  Tags: Alpha, Aon Consulting, Benefits, CMI, consulting, Florida, Hewitt Associates LLC, Palm Inc., pension, survey, Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt Worldwide

• Insurance costs surge.(benefits consulting firms)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Statistical Data Included)(Directory)

  - 2001-12-01

  INDUSTRY TRENDS Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average 11% in 2001, the largest increase in nearly a decade. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust EMPLOYEE BENEFITS CONSULTANTS Ranked by Full-Time Professionals...

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• ADMINISTRATION SPECULATION; Towers Perrin tie to pension posts.

  - 2001-01-08

  Among the names circulating in Washington for top pension spots in the Bush administration are two men with affiliations to Towers Perrin. John Woyke, a principal in the consulting firm's Valhalla, N.Y., headquarters is being mentioned as a likely Among the names circulating...

  Tags: Bush Administration, pension, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., Towers Perrin