Meanwhile, bigger competitors Willis Group Holdings (nyse: WSH - news - people ) and Aon (nyse: AOC - news - people ) are shedding, or thinking about shedding, aspects of their insurance brokerage operations, having come under regulatory scrutiny over conflicts of interest.
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Earlier this year, a study by Aon Hewitt (AON) showed consumer-directed health plans have overtaken HMOs as an option offered by major employers.
Aon based its map -- which gives each country a ranking of "low, " "guarded, " "elevated, " "high" or "severe" -- on the number of terrorist attacks around the world.
One of 36 companies that now sponsor Manchester United, Aon will sign an eight-year contract to brand the club's training kit and attach its name to United's Carrington training ground.
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The new disclosure rules are "going to give employers more control and leverage to negotiate lower fees, " said Pamela Hess, director of retirement research at Aon Hewitt, a human-resources consulting company.
"Collective trusts provide the overall benefits of a mutual fund such as professional investment management, a broadly diversified portfolio of holdings, and the like generally at a much more effective price point, " says Winfield Evens, a partner and director at Aon Hewitt, a human-resources consulting firm based in Lincolnshire, Ill.
Sure enough, a big insurance broker, Aon, announced a sizable write-off and rival E.
Dwelle forecasts long-term benefits for Aon in the HR arena as a result of the Hewitt deal.
"I couldn't think of a politically correct way to word the kick-back item--thought you might want to take a crack at that, " a consultant working for the union wrote in a candid email uncovered during an investigation--a consultant from Aon.
Giuliani Partners has advised the likes of insurer Aon (nyse: AOC - news - people ), CB Richard Ellis, the real estate services firm, and Entergy (nyse: ETR - news - people ), the giant New Orleans utility.
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Aon Corp. ( AOC - news - people ), a major insurance services brokerage, also publicly traded and out of Chicago.
The per-worker cost amounts in the Aon Hewitt survey are for the typical worker.
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Good team leaders and CEOs are those who set smarter, more flexible goals, believes Beatrice Grech-Cumbo, talent practice leader with Aon Hewitt.
In Aon's 2004 league table of terrorism hot spots -- part of its annual global terrorism risk map -- Chechnya, Afghanistan, France, Northern Ireland and Pakistan round out the top 10.
Notwithstanding the chaos at once gilt-edged American International Group, diversified insurers Safeco, Aon and Allstate all get share price risk grades below 145.
According to a new survey of 800 large and mid-size employers by the human resource consultancy arm of Aon, 83% offer employees incentives in wellness programs.
Aon is trying to spin off an underwriting subsidiary, and its shares are down by one-third.
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