Willis Towers Watson Public Limited Company (WTW) reports developments across its advisory, broking and solutions businesses in people, risk and capital. News commonly covers earnings from Health, Wealth & Career and Risk & Broking, insurance brokerage and risk consulting activity, employee benefits, workplace pensions, benefits delivery and outsourcing, and insurance consulting technology.
Company updates also include product launches such as transactional-risk insurance, catastrophe and reputational-risk research, AI and technology adoption, acquisition integration in brokerage and workplace savings, leadership appointments, share repurchase plans and client or brand partnerships.
Willis, a WTW (WTW) business, published its Mining Risk Review 2026, urging miners to review insurance programmes amid buyer-friendly conditions. Willis describes abundant capacity and competition as drivers of lower rates, with global liability capacity exceeding US$1.2 billion after eight consecutive years of increases. The review also highlights interconnected supply chain, cyber and climate risks, alongside continued scrutiny of tailings storage facilities.
WTW (WTW) published survey findings showing specialty insurance rate reductions accelerated in the first half of 2026 and at July renewals. Insurance and reinsurance rates each declined 4% gross of trend and 6% net of trend in the first six months. At the 1 July insurance renewals, rates fell 6% gross and 9% net, with property down 17% net of trend.
All 15 material insurance and reinsurance classes recorded net-of-claims-trend decreases in the first half. The survey uses insurer-owned data from participating WTW clients across London, Bermuda and U.S. excess and surplus markets, covering approximately $300 billion in gross written premium over a 10-year cycle.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) launched Via Retirement in the US, extending its wealth business into financial solutions for people entering retirement. The offering combines personalized investment advice, retirement scenario modeling, access to investment model portfolios and an annuity marketplace. WTW aims to help individuals move from accumulating retirement savings to managing income in retirement.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) announced that its Willis business has launched a global Defense and Security initiative led by Jennifer Caldarella. The initiative connects specialists across Willis’ businesses and geographies to serve defense and security organizations.
The platform brings together insurance risk transfer, risk advice and analytics, cyber and data security, crisis management, claims, risk engineering, operational resilience, workforce risk, and capital and transaction advice. Willis said the coordinated approach is intended to help clients understand interconnected risks across operations, assets, supply chains and investments. The company describes the initiative as a long-term commitment to the sector, addressing client challenges associated with technological change, regulatory requirements and delivery timelines.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) published a Willis survey showing 70% of organisations formally integrate cyber risk into board-level risk frameworks. The 2026 Directors’ & Officers’ Liability Insurance Survey: Cyber in Focus found 65% of boards receive cybersecurity and threat updates at least quarterly.
Potential cyber losses are quantified annually by 19% of respondents and on an ongoing basis by 41%. However, only 55% feel well informed about their organisation’s cyber risks, and 46% believe their board understands how effectively cybersecurity spending reduces exposure. Cyber insurance is in place for 48% of respondents, while another 19% plan to buy it within two years.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) released survey findings showing U.S. employees report better health but less financial security than in 2019. Financial security fell from 46% to 36%, its lowest level in seven years, while the share reporting they were physically thriving rose from 54% to 64%.
Among employees in their 40s, 30% felt financially secure and 41% delayed or skipped doctor visits last year because of money worries. Employees reporting high financial distress lost 23.6 days to absence and working while impaired, versus 11.7 days for those reporting low distress. Across U.S. employees, 65% expected a worse retirement than their parents’ generation, and 47% cited healthcare costs as a barrier to saving. Employees ranked improving core benefits ahead of greater choice or better access tools. WTW said employers should focus on affordable coverage and support for financially strained employees.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) published a study with MSCI Institute identifying artificial intelligence as the top strategic priority among participating global asset owners. AI was cited by 67% of participants disclosing data for that measure, ahead of adapting to higher inflation at 44%. The research covered 20 global asset owners responsible for more than US$5 trillion in combined assets.
Participants expect technology’s contribution to investment outcomes to rise from approximately 17% today to 30% over the next three to five years. Readiness remains uneven: only 25% have AI as a standing board or investment committee agenda item, while three-quarters cite data quality and standardization as a leading constraint on adoption.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) has introduced AI-powered job matching to Rewards AI to support compensation teams in matching roles for pay benchmarking. Users enter a job title or describe a role in everyday language to receive recommended disciplines, career bands and levels based on WTW job content and survey methodology. The capability explains each recommendation, while users retain the final decision.
WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) will announce its third-quarter financial results on October 29, 2026, before the market opens.
A conference call will follow at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, with a live, listen-only webcast on WTW’s website. An online replay will be available shortly after the call concludes.
WTW (WTW) published research showing that completed mega deals reached a record nine-month total in the global acquisition market.
There were 24 transactions above US$10 billion in the first nine months of 2026, including nine in the third quarter versus three in the previous quarter. Year-to-date completed deal volume rose 16.1% to 614 from 529 in the same period of 2025. Third-quarter transactions completed within 70 days of announcement represented 43% of deals, versus 35% in the previous quarter; cross-sector transactions rose to 35% from 25%.
Acquirers in deals above US$100 million completed during the third quarter underperformed the benchmark by 10.3 percentage points. Of 200 completed deals, 121 acquirers underperformed and 79 outperformed. North American, European and Asia-Pacific acquirers lagged their regional indices, while UK buyers outperformed.