Trusted Advice for the New Retirement Reality

Retirement plan sponsors are in uncharted territory. The economic crisis, a wave of regulations and an aging workforce mean new challenges. Trust the actuarial firm used by more of the world’s top 300 pension funds to help you mitigate risk, manage costs and optimize plan value.

Reaching Your Destination

Combining deep expertise in retirement and investment, we partner with you to assess where you are, establish where you want to go and help you get there.

Watson Wyatt works with you to design, deliver and manage a retirement program that reinforces your business strategy. And we help you govern your plans effectively with our proven compliance and operational review process.

Our customized solutions are underpinned by industry-leading tools and innovative thinking. Plus, with 7,500 associates in 33 countries, we can support you everywhere you do business and ensure global coordination.

The result: a retirement program that balances your risks and costs with plan objectives and opportunities.

Our services include:

• Actuarial Services
• Strategic Plan Design
• Risk Management
• Compliance and Governance Strategies
• Retirement Plan Administration
• Defined Contribution Solutions

Why Watson Wyatt?

• Watson Wyatt provides consulting services to many of the world's largest retirement plans, and those relationships have endured for decades.
  • We serve as actuary to three of the four largest corporate-sponsored defined benefit plans in the United States.
  • We have more than 100 large defined contribution clients representing more than $100B in assets.
  • We’re the only one of our peers to gain actuarial market share among Fortune 1000 and Pensions & Investment 1000 corporate pension plan sponsors in nine of the past 10 years.
• We have a proven track record. Watson Wyatt traces its roots back to the oldest actuarial firm in the world, formed in 1878. Our first client is still a client more than 130 years later.
• Our benefits administration solutions help administer benefits for nearly 6 million employees worldwide.
• Watson Wyatt has led the market in innovation on retirement plan design. In the United States, we introduced the stable value plan and, in Canada, we developed FlexPension Plus – the market’s leading flex plan.
• For more than two decades, Watson Wyatt has been at the forefront of U.S. retirement policy discussions. In 2003, we helped plan sponsors form the Coalition to Preserve the Defined Benefit System. 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.
• Our consultants are backed by the full global resources and strength of Watson Wyatt. Today we are one of Fortune’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies and Forbes’ 400 Best Big Companies in America.

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• Economic Crisis: The New Reality
• Assessing Retirement Plans
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• Retirement Plan Design and Funding for Multinationals

For More Information

To put our expertise to work for you, please contact your local Watson Wyatt office.