Willis Towers Stock Price, News & Analysis

WTW (NYSE:WTW) released its Commercial Lines Insurance Pricing Survey (CLIPS) for Q2 2025, revealing U.S. commercial insurance rates increased by 3.8%, down from 5.3% in Q1 2025 and 5.6% in Q4 2024.

The survey showed varied trends across insurance lines: workers compensation, directors' and officers' liability, and cyber experienced price decreases, while commercial property recorded its first price decline after several quarters of slowing growth. Excess/umbrella liability saw the largest increases, and commercial auto maintained double-digit growth. Small and mid-market accounts experienced slightly lower increases, while large accounts continued to rise at a slower pace.

Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) has strengthened its Placement and Portfolio Solutions team with two strategic senior appointments. Gina Mulhall has been appointed as Head of Global Portfolio Solutions, joining from Marsh where she served as Managing Director and Head of Quota Shares and Specialty Placement Solutions. Additionally, Kapila Rudra has been named Head of Data Strategy for Global Placement, bringing nearly 15 years of experience from Marsh and Canopius.

These appointments aim to enhance Willis' portfolio initiatives and data-driven placement strategy to deliver increased value to clients.

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) and SOMPO Holdings have announced a global partnership to implement WTW's Radar technology across SOMPO Group, marking the first such agreement in Japan. Sompo Direct Insurance has already integrated Radar into its auto insurance business since June 2025.

The partnership focuses on leveraging Radar's advanced pricing and underwriting solution, which enables insurers to utilize predictive modeling and machine learning without programming expertise. Sompo Direct is using the technology to enhance automobile insurance pricing through advanced data analysis and swift premium adjustments.

The SOMPO Group has initiated Radar implementation beyond Japan, beginning in Turkey, with plans for expansion across Southeast Asia. The technology allows for direct premium adjustments in production environments, facilitating faster and more accurate insurance product launches.

Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) announced key leadership changes in its Global Construction and Global Surety teams. Bill Creedon, former Global Construction business leader, has been appointed as Chairman, where he will focus on client engagement and talent development.

Scott Hull has been promoted to Global Head of Construction and Surety, expanding his current role as Global Head of Surety. Additionally, Goly Jafari has been named Global Deputy of Construction and Surety, bringing experience from her previous role as Head of Strategy and Execution for North America industry divisions.

Willis (NASDAQ: WTW) has announced the launch of its new Global Risk Engineering team, expanding its Global Risk & Analytics (R&A) business. The team comprises nearly 200 risk engineers operating across 30 countries, spanning North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

The initiative combines Property and Casualty Risk Control expertise with data science, decision support tools, and industry-specific knowledge. The team will provide single-site and portfolio-level assessments, utilizing proprietary data sets and advanced analytics to deliver tailored solutions that optimize risk management strategies and improve client resilience.

WTW's Thinking Ahead Institute reports that the world's top 300 pension funds have reached a new record of US$ 24.4 trillion in total assets under management, surpassing the previous 2021 record of US$ 23.6 trillion. Growth slowed to 7.8% in 2024 compared to 10% the previous year.

The top 20 pension funds now control US$ 10.3 trillion (42.4% of total assets), growing 8.5% year-over-year. Norway's Government Pension Fund (US$ 1.77 trillion) has overtaken Japan's GPIF as the world's largest pension fund. Defined benefit schemes represent 59.4% of total assets, while defined contribution plans grew 14.3% to reach 27.7% of assets.

Key trends include increased focus on artificial intelligence, with half of top funds citing technology adoption as a strategic priority, while concerns about volatility, uncertainty, and inflation shape the investment outlook.

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) and Compa have announced a strategic partnership to enhance compensation intelligence for enterprise teams. The collaboration combines WTW's global survey benchmarks with Compa's real-time market data network to provide organizations with comprehensive compensation insights.

The partnership addresses the growing challenges of volatile labor markets and expanding pay transparency requirements. Enterprise compensation teams will benefit from both WTW's validated global benchmarks for long-term planning and Compa's real-time offer data for immediate market responsiveness, enabling more confident data-driven pay decisions.

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW), a global advisory, broking and solutions company, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.92 per share for Q2 2025. The dividend will be distributed on October 15, 2025 to shareholders recorded as of September 30, 2025.

WTW's (NYSE:WTW) LifeSight, a UK defined contribution master trust, has been selected by Emerson as its comprehensive master trust provider. The transition, completed in April 2025, follows LifeSight's initial engagement as Emerson's Drawdown solutions provider in 2020.

The implementation has notably increased member engagement through LifeSight's mobile app and communications approach. With this addition, LifeSight now manages over £24 billion in assets and serves 430,000 members.