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News about Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) reflects its role as a global advisory, broking and solutions company focused on people, risk and capital. Because WTW operates through its Health, Wealth & Career and Risk & Broking segments, its news flow spans employee benefits, pensions, insurance broking, risk analytics and technology for insurers.
On this page, readers can follow WTW news related to earnings announcements, capital markets activity, product launches and strategic transactions. Recent disclosures include plans to announce fourth quarter and full year financial results, the pricing of senior notes issued by Willis North America Inc. and guaranteed by WTW, and the entry into a revolving credit facility under a Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement.
WTW also issues news about its Insurance Consulting and Technology offerings, such as the launch of Radar Fusion, an augmented underwriting technology, and the Radar Connector for Databricks, which integrates its Radar analytics platform with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. These updates illustrate how WTW uses data and analytics to support insurers with pricing, underwriting and governance.
In addition, WTW publishes research-driven releases, including its analysis of funded status for large U.S. corporate defined benefit pension plans and its Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS), as well as political risk reports produced by Willis, a WTW business. Strategic news items also cover agreements to acquire Newfront and Cushon, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
Investors, clients and observers can use this news feed to monitor how WTW develops its advisory, broking and technology capabilities, how it approaches risk and capital management topics, and how its transactions and research initiatives may influence its position within the insurance agencies and brokerages industry.
Willis (NASDAQ:WTW) reports that incidents involving threats to people or client assets rose by more than a third in 2025, representing 37% of Alert:24 notifications. Political repatriation accounted for 19% of incidents, and Sub-Saharan Africa recorded over a quarter of notifications, with nearly half originating in the DRC.
The report notes a 10% rise in clients assisted in the first 11 months of 2025 and warns that geopolitical volatility, economic pressure and activism will keep risk elevated into 2026.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) Thinking Ahead Institute reports global pension assets rose 9.6% YoY to a record USD 68.3 trillion in 2025, adding USD 6.0 trillion of value. DC plans now form 63% of assets in the top seven markets; US is 66% of Top 22.
Australia, US and Canada led decade growth; Canada overtook Japan to become the second largest market. Aggregate equity allocation in P7 fell to 48%.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) released the next generation of its U.S. Library models in RiskAgility Financial Modeler, adding full VM-22 capability for non-variable annuity products on Feb 9, 2026.
The upgrade offers end-to-end VM-22 reserving support: enhanced asset–liability integration, efficient projection architecture, aggregation-group handling, portfolio-aligned investment strategies, and scenario-based reinvestment rules to help insurers and reinsurers meet the new statutory valuation framework.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) reported Q4-2025 revenue of $2.94B (down 3% reported, organic +6%) and full-year revenue of $9.71B (down 2% reported, organic +5%) following the sale of TRANZACT. Adjusted diluted EPS was $8.12 in Q4 and $17.08 for FY-2025. Operating margin expanded to 34.6% in Q4 and 23.0% for the year. The company repurchased $1.65B in shares in 2025 and expects ≥$1.0B in buybacks for 2026.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) launched Rewards AI on February 2, 2026, a generative AI-enabled compensation intelligence platform that uses WTW’s proprietary data to help HR and compensation teams access, analyze and act on rewards data.
Rewards AI offers a conversational interface, traceable recommendations, and a “human-led, machine-powered” design to speed insight discovery and support transparent, data-backed compensation decisions.
Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) warns that 2025 produced more than US$100 billion in insured natural catastrophe losses — the sixth consecutive year above that level — but $40 billion lower than 2024. The report highlights rising structural risks from wildfire, compound perils, warming-driven hurricane changes, and expanding flood exposure.
Willis recommends updated wildfire models, exposure-level data, consideration of compound events, and investment in resilience to protect insurance portfolios and manage mounting climate-driven volatility.
Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) unveiled an integrated eight-point data center risk framework on January 28, 2026, targeting lifecycle risk from development through steady-state operations. The approach addresses systemic threats—energy security, cyber, climate, supply chains—and moves toward multi-year, tailored insurance and risk solutions. Willis says it has $3 billion in secured capacity for hyperscale projects and cites a $10 billion projected insurance premium market this year.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) completed its acquisition of Newfront on January 27, 2026, integrating the San Francisco–based broker into WTW to expand U.S. middle market capabilities and accelerate technology and specialty strategies.
Newfront’s broking platform, proprietary client technologies, advanced automation and agentic AI now operate within WTW’s Risk & Broking and Health, Wealth & Career segments. Newfront co-founder and CEO Spike Lipkin joined WTW to lead integration, client development, talent acquisition and technology. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised WTW; Perella Weinberg and Reed Smith advised Newfront.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) reports that 73% of U.S. employers plan to enhance leave programs over the next two years, driven by improving the employee experience (67%) and boosting attraction and retention (60%). Employers are expanding parental, bereavement and caregiver leave; caregiver leave is expected to rise from 22% to 39%. Interest in unlimited PTO is increasing (now 15% of employers; 18% expect to offer it within two years). Administrative challenges persist: 49% cite program administration as the top obstacle. Outsourcing of State/Federal FML admin is currently 72% and expected to reach 82%; ADA outsourcing is projected to rise to 46%. Employers show ~70% openness to AI for routine case-management despite 66% uncertainty about current AI use.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) reported on Jan 22, 2026 that human capital remains the most prevalent non-financial metric in executive incentive plans even as ESG measures are being reframed toward value creation.
Key findings: 76% of S&P 500 companies include at least one ESG metric in incentives (down 1% year-over-year); only 9% of those metrics appear in long-term incentives; globally 80% of companies use at least one ESG metric. Use of DEI metrics in S&P 500 incentives fell from 55% to 34% (a 21-point decline) and 23 companies (5%) disclosed plans to remove DEI metrics. People-related metrics remain common: 71% in North America and 81% in Europe.