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For more than 50 years, world-class organizations have partnered with Watson Wyatt to manage the design, funding and delivery of strategic retirement programs. Today, we are the retirement consulting firm of choice in our industry.
- We provide actuarial services to more of the top 300 pension funds worldwide than any other consulting firm.
- We serve as actuary to the three largest corporate pension plan sponsors in the United States, and those relationships have endured for more than 25 years.
- We’ve grown our market share among FORTUNE 1000 and Pensions & Investments 1000 companies during each of the past seven years.
- We have the best client retention rate in the industry.
What sets us apart:
Thought Leadership and Creativity
Known as an innovator in retirement plan design, Watson Wyatt developed the first pension equity plan in the United States. We also developed a total risk budgeting approach for assessing investment and liability-related risks in a uniform manner. We collaborate with clients to design defined benefit, defined contribution and retiree health benefit programs that reinforce your business strategy.
Groundbreaking Research
Watson Wyatt leads the industry in retirement-related research, and has helped shape the debate on demographics and related workforce planning issues. Ten years ago, our research on retirement policy, The Sleeping Giant, predicted the U.S. demographic crisis and its effect on retirement programs, and we have remained at the forefront of this issue. Recently, our leading retirement researchers published, The Economic Implications of Aging Societies, addressing global demographic challenges. We have conducted the most thorough research to date on the shift from traditional pensions to hybrid plans and the ramifications for employers and workers. We were the first to study and advocate for phased retirement programs, and recent efforts include one of the most in-depth surveys to date on worker attitudes toward phased retirement.
Commitment to our Clients’ Interests
Now more than ever, it is crucial for our clients to have an advocate when their interests are at stake. For more than two decades, Watson Wyatt has been at the forefront of U.S. retirement policy discussions. Two years ago we helped plan sponsors form the Coalition to Preserve the Defined Benefit System. Today, the Coalition membership is made up of over 75 plan sponsors representing over 1.5 million workers. Together, we are advocating for policy that ensures cash balance and other hybrid plan designs remain a viable retirement security option for workers and employers.
Advanced Technologies
We offer the best actuarial systems, consulting tools and administrative solutions in our industry. Our technology investments put powerful tools directly in our clients’ hands. Our tools in conjunction with our thoughtful consulting solutions combine to deliver efficient results.
Our retirement technology solutions include:
- Retirement Management Online is a gateway to key Watson Wyatt research, data and tools.
- Quick Peek Online, for modeling the impact of assumption changes, asset returns and other key variables on your pension expense and funding requirements.
- Electronic Actuary, for comparing different defined benefit, defined contribution and retiree medical plan designs in terms of benefit accrual patterns, employer costs and more.
- FAS Assumption Toolbox, for benchmarking accounting assumptions against a database of America's largest companies.
- QuikValue, for evaluating a complete range of benefit provisions against those of others in your industry or region, drawing from a database of 1,200 employers across the United States.
- PensionPath, a flexible outsourcing solution for managing the entire life cycle of pension administration, from new hire to retirement.
For Further Information
To put our retirement consulting expertise to work for you, contact your local Watson Wyatt office.
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