Global Actuarial Services
Better Manage Financial Exposures and Investment Risks
Corporate pensions have been hit by the perfect storm, but Watson Wyatt helps you meet the challenge.
Unprecedented scrutiny, volatile investment markets, new accounting standards, increased corporate governance — they all create unwanted risks and unnecessary costs. We can minimize these problems with central coordination and expertise.
We help you manage the financial exposures and investment risks of your benefit plans with these services:
- International accounting for pensions. The introduction of IAS19 across Europe will require many multinational companies to account for their pension and post-retirement benefits consistently around the world — often in combination with existing standards, such as FAS87 in the United States and FRS17 in the United Kingdom. We help you produce accounting figures across all countries that neither overstate nor understate your risk.
- Management of your exposure to benefit plans. We help your accounting process become far more than just a necessary compliance exercise. Working with all the major accounting standards, we help you understand and manage your benefit plans’ exposure and risks. As your plan managers consider new benefit designs and investment decisions, they’ll gain greater awareness of the impact to group balance sheets and to profit and loss statements. We conduct actuarial calculations on a global basis or manage and review the results produced by local actuarial firms in each country.
- Investment advice. Multinational firms rely on us to determine how well their assets are managed because of our position as one of the world’s leading strategic investment consultants to pension funds. Our work covers the governance of pension plan assets, strategic asset allocation (including asset and liability modeling), effective structure design for investment managers, advice on manager selection and the monitoring of investment manager performance.
Investment advisory and investment consulting services are provided in the United States by Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting, Inc., a subsidiary of Watson Wyatt and Company. Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting, Inc., is registered as an investment advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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