{"id":156,"date":"2005-03-26T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2005-12-02T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T21:12:38","slug":"watson-wyatt-weighs-in-on-bushs-social-security-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Watson Wyatt weighs in on Bush&#8217;s Social Security plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsonwyatt.com\/us\/pubs\/insider\/showarticle.asp?ArticleID=14371&amp;Component=The+Insider\">Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions <\/a>on W&#8217;s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me because I figured actuaries would weigh in on <a href=\"http:\/\/hrtech.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/pensions-vs-401k.html\">my side<\/a> of this issue in claiming DB plans are alive and kicking.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read the reports yet, but I&#8217;m curious that any educated analysis would come out in favor of privatized accounts. Heck, the SSA says it ain&#8217;t so bad, and even a good majority of Americans think it ain&#8217;t so bad (ok &#8211; maybe this is taking some polls out of context).<\/p>\n<p>At any rate &#8211; perhaps still a few good consulting firms out there. I was sure all the DB companies would be trying to derail an attempt for the largest DB plan in America to go semi-DC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpectedly objective move for an actuarial service, Watson Wyatt released oppositionary opinions on W&#8217;s private accounts for Socual Security, one for and one against. Unexpected for me because I figured actuaries would weigh in on my side of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits-management","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}