Introduction
Willis Towers Watson5
DB CLIENT OVERVIEW | |
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Total DB admin clients1 | 423 |
% Full outsourcing | 46% |
% DB and DC clients | 0% |
DB PLAN OVERVIEW | |
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Total DB plans | 863 |
% Frozen plans2 | NR |
% Cash balance plans | NR |
% PLANS, BY NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS | |
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<100 participants | 1 (<1%) |
100 – 1,000 participants | 83 (10%) |
1,001 – 5,000 participants | 256 (30%) |
>5,000 participants | 523 (61%) |
DB PARTICIPANT OVERVIEW | |
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U.S. DB participants | 4,869,152 |
% Private/Corporate3 | 97% |
% Public/Government | 0% |
% Retired participants | 33% |
% All interactions on web | 80% |
SPONSOR SERVICES OFFERED | |
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Plan accounting / Master trust | |
Trust and custody services | |
Actuarial services | I |
Investment management | I |
Liability-driven investing | I |
Investment consulting | I |
PARTICIPANT ONLINE SERVICES | |
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Online initiation | |
Online elections | |
E-form processing | |
Online inquiry status | |
Online calculations4 | |
Comparison of online calculation |
I = Internal; E = External; P = Partnership; = Supports service as of publication date; NR = Not Reported in time for publication |
Footnote: |
1Includes both full outsourcing and partial outsourcing/co-sourcing arrangements; excludes investment-only, actuary-only and plan-consulting-only clients. 2 Includes partially frozen, soft-frozen and hard-frozen defined benefit plans. 3 Includes both single-employer and multi-employer/Taft-Hartley plans. 4 Reflects a provider's ability to provide actual/binding benefit calculations online; nearly all providers are able to offer nonbinding estimates of benefit accruals. 5 Willis Towers Watson's 2019 data reflects participant counts adjusted for derisking activities (e.g., bulk lump-sum offerings, partial and/or plan termination). |