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Watson Wyatt Worldwide (WW) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- Jun 30 2007
- $1.4B
- Profit
- Jun 30 2007
- $116.2M
- Market Cap
- Jul 02 2008
- $2.2B
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Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr. End 03/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. F3Q08 (Qtr. End 03/31/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr. End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. F2Q08 (Qtr. End 12/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Workforce Management And Retirement In A 401(K) World
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...
Reviewing and Rethinking the Annual Bonus
Board pay is an issue that has taken up a lot of column inches in the press over the last few years. In parallel with this, previously sleepy institutions have woken up and been prepared to engage actively with boards. The result has been some bruising battles, with GlaxoSmithKline, J...
DC - A Ticking Time Bomb?
Defined contribution DC plans transfer all the investment risk to employees and 'Empower' them to take control of their retirement savings. This employee empowerment could indeed be part of a wider cultural shift within an organization to give greater flexibility, control and personal responsibility to individual. This article suggests that,...
The Uncertain Future of Longevity
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...
Corporate Governance Development in UK and Continental Europe
The potential onset of 'Corporate Governance Fatigue' is a risk for all publicly-quoted companies, which needs to be resisted strongly. The commitment of corporate Boards to fairness, transparency and accountability has an appreciable effect on whether the greatest practicable enhancement is achieved over the period of their shareholders investment. The...
Saving Private Pension Insurance: An Evaluation of Current Proposals to Shore Up the PBGC
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...
The Business Case for Employers to Invest in Disease Management: A Systematic Review of the Literature
This paper examines the business case for implementing disease management programs in employer-sponsored health plans, based on a systematic review of disease management program outcomes published in peer-reviewed journals. This review targets disease management programs for chronic conditions that are common in active employee groups: asthma, coronary artery disease CAD,...
Credit Ratings and Pensions Across the FTSE 350
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...
Absence Management
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...
Getting Our Acts Together
The combined effects of the Pensions Act and Finance Act will mean that everyone involved with pensions will, during 2005, be reviewing what they do and why they do it. This article suggests that it might be sensible therefore to give similar consideration to the 'how' as well. Efficient administration...
The Role of Equities in Pension Funds
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,...
Ill-Health Benefits in a DC Environment
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...
Changing Lanes: Thinking Ahead - Doing Risk Better
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...
Are There Alternatives to the Traditional Option Plan?
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...
Alternatives to Direct Funding
Deciding on the appropriate mechanism for providing security to pension scheme members is an important issue for scheme sponsors. It is likely to become even more important as schemes mature and greater attention is paid to more volatile funding measures such as FRS 17 and IAS 19. The need for...
Medical Benefits and Cost Sharing Trends, 2000-2003
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...
The Taxation of High Earners' Pensions - Key Issues
This paper focuses on the Finance Act 2004 that sets out how the Government intends the taxation of pension schemes will be changed from 6 April 2006 A day, including 'unapproved' schemes, such as funded unapproved retirement benefits schemes ('FURBS') and unfunded unapproved retirement benefit schemes ('UURBS'). It summarizes some...
Plan Design Issues for the 21st Century
The paper basically involves exploring the middle ground between defined benefit and the money purchase pension plans. Too many defined benefits and money purchase pension arrangement are like chalk and cheese. The paper deals with the Pension plan design survey which shows that around a quarter of plans that have...
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- Incorporated: 2000
- CEO: Mr. John J. Haley
Watson Wyatt Worldwide is engaged in the business of providing consultative services on a fee basis, primarily in the human resource areas of employee benefits and compensation, and also in other areas such as human capital consulting and human resource-related technology consulting. Co. designs, develops, and implements human resource strategies and risk management strategies and programs through the following practice areas: Benefits Group; Technology and Administration Solutions Group; Human Capital Group; Investment Consulting Group; and Insurance & Financial Services Group.
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Board of Directors
Mr. John J. Haley
Chairman
Mr. John J. Gabarro
Mr. Robert Michael McCullough
Dr. Brendan R. O'Neill Ph.D.
Ms. Linda D. Rabbitt
Mr. Chandrasekhar Ramamurthy
Mr. Gilbert T. Ray
Mr. John C. Wright
Contact Information
901 N. Glebe Road
Arlington, VA
703 258-8000
NAICS Code
Human Resources Consulting Services: 541612
