Watson Wyatt

GLOBAL - Fewer investors will employ active managers and will avoid high-fee products in 2010, Watson Wyatt predicted.

Watson Wyatt has hired Paul Herbert from Hewitt Associates to its expand its defined contribution investment team.

Exchange traded funds are generally more expensive than many institutional index products and an unattractive long-term investment option for most pension funds, Watson Wyatt claims.

In recent times structured products have increasingly grown more attractive to Australian superannuation funds - a trend that is set to contune, as Rachel Alembakis reports

Most UK companies will continue to run final salary schemes in the short-term despite crippling liabilities, research from the Confederation of British Industry and Watson Wyatt reveals.

Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt have been granted conditional clearance to proceed with their merger to form Towers Watson.

GLOBAL - Schemes need to prepare for the return of inflation in case central banks fail to control upward pressure on prices, Watson Wyatt said.

Schemes need to prepare for the return of inflation in case central banks fail to control upward pressure on prices, Watson Wyatt says.

UK - Senior correspondent Giovanni Legorano speaks to Steve Delo former chairman of the Pensions Management Institute/Independent Trustee, PAN Governance and Michael Chatterton, head of settlement solutions at Watson Wyatt.

UK - Trustees and sponsor companies should look at the company's defined benefit scheme as if it were a subsidiary of the sponsor company, Watson Wyatt head of settlement solutions Michael Chatterton said.