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Towers Perrin
Contact1: Keri Alletson
Phone (Bus): (416)960-4493
(Fax): (416)960-2819
E-mail: keri.alletson@towersperrin.com
Contact2: David Le Roy
Phone (Bus): (416)960-7558
(Fax): (416)960-2819E-mail: david.leroy@towersperrin.com
Address: South Tower, 1701 - 175 Bloor St. E., Toronto, ON M4W 3T6
www.towersperrin.com
Other Locations:
Vancouver, BC: Terry Duggan (604)691-1005
Calgary, AB: Mark Dahlman (403)261-4560
Montreal, PQ: Michel Tougas (514) 982-2073
Keys: Accountability; Actuarial Science; Ageing; Ageing Workforce; Aging Workforce; Alternative Rewards; Annuities; Baby Boomer Retirement; Benefits Administration; Benefits Strategy; Bonuses; Business Process Outsourcing; Change Management; Chronic Illness; Communications Consultants; Compensation; Corporate Communications; Corporate Governance; Deferred Profit Sharing; Dental Insurance; Disability Management; Employee Benefits; Employee Benefits Plans; Employment Equity; Executive Compensation; Extended Health Insurance; Funding (pensions); Global Company; Health; Health Care; Health Care Reform; Human Resource Management; Incentive Compensation; Inflation on a Retirement Plan; Insurance Claims; Insurance Industry; Intergenerational Workforce; Investment; Job Description; Job Evaluation; Job Hunting; Jobs; Life Income Funds (LIF's); Locked-In Retirement Account (LIRA); Locked-In Retirement Income Funds (LRIF's); Long Term Disability; Management Consultants; Mental Health Issues; Mobile Workforce; Occupational Stress; Organizational Communications; Outsourcing; Overtime Pay; Pension Administration; Pension Benefit Guarantee; Pension Fund Asset Management; Pension Funds; Pension Governance; Pension Plans; Pension Reform; People Strategy Consultants; Personnel Management; Pharmaceuticals; Profit-Sharing; Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIF's); Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP's); Retirement; Retirement Compensation Arrangements; Retirement Funds; Retirement Planning; Retiring Boomer Executives; Salary & Bonus Studies; Salary Management; Senior Executives Switch to Non-Profit; Short Term Disability; Sickness Benefits; SOX; Stock Option Plans; Succession Plan; Supplemental Employee Retirement Plans (SERP's); Talent Strategy; Tension in the Workplace; Total Rewards; White-Collar Jobs; Work; Work Permits for Foreign Nurses; Workfare; Workforce; Workplace Negativity; British Columbia; Alberta; Quebec; Ontario*.
Expertise: The parent company was established in 1934, and 1956 in Canada. We have 6,000+ employees worldwide, with 500+ in Canada.
International Operations: also in USA, Latin America, Australia, Europe, and the Far East.
Mandate: Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations around the world optimize performance through effective people, risk and financial management. The firm provides innovative solutions to client issues in the areas of human resource strategy, design and management; actuarial and management consulting to the financial services industry; and reinsurance intermediary services.
The firm has served large organizations in both the private and public sectors for 70 years. Our clients include three-quarters of the world's 500 largest companies and three-quarters of the Fortune 1000 U.S. companies. Towers Perrin has offices in 25 countries. Our businesses include HR Services, Reinsurance and Tillinghast.Story Ideas:
2007
March 15, 2007: Towers Perrin Acquires Global Employee Research Firm ISR
March 7, 2007: Towers Perrin Survey Shows Neither Employers Nor Employees Are Getting What They Need From Current Benefit Programs
February 1, 2007: Towers Perrin Acquires MGMC, Inc.
January 23, 2007: Towers Perrin, a global professional services firm, today announced that it has acquired MGMC, Inc., a Connecticut-based firm that provides compensation surveys and advisory services to the financial services industry
2006
November 28, 2006: Key challenge is to make DC work says Towers Perrin
November 13, 2006: Corporate Governance Issues, Natural Disasters Prompt Nonfinancial Services Companies to Reassess, Broaden Enterprise Risk Management Strategies
November 9, 2006: Tillinghast Survey Finds Increasingly Complex Regulations and Interest Rates are Top Life Insurance CFO Concerns for 2007; Towers Perrin Survey Finds More Organizations Relying on Technology to Meet Workforce Management Goals
October 18, 2006: Despite Higher Long Bond Yields, Pension Plan Funding Levels Remained Flat In Second Quarter, Towers Perrin Analysis Finds
October 16, 2006: Talent Management Takes On New Meaning For Companies Struggling To Retain Critical Skills, Towers Perrin Finds
October 10, 2006: Most Plan Sponsors Expect New Pension Protection Act's Impact on Contributions to Be Modest, Towers Perrin Finds; Tillinghast Releases New TAS-Moses Software Application
October 6, 2006: Mark Arian Has Joined the Global Change Management Consulting Practice of Towers Perrin
September 26, 2006: Towers Perrin Survey Shows Employer-Sponsored Health Benefit Costs Continue to Outpace the CPI - Projected 6% Increase for 2007 Means Annual Cost Per Employee Will Approach $9,000
September 5, 2006: Steve Taylor-Gooby Appointed Managing Director for Tillinghast Business of Towers Perrin
August 28, 2006: Phillip Pettersen Has Joined the Reinsurance Business of Towers Perrin
August 9, 2006: Towers Perrin's Next-Generation Comp Online Offers the Fastest, Easiest and Most Powerful Compensation Assessment Tool on the Market
updated: June 15, 2007