Mike Burwell
Chief Financial Officer
Yes, John. So I will maybe take it from the HCB segment and then give you in each of the segments and a little bit further color of what we are seeing by line of business. So if you look at our retirement business, from a risk standpoint, what we are seeing is, we continue to see a lower interest rate environment. So we expect bulk lump sum activity to increase. However, some sponsor may be hesitant and have been hesitant, given the reduced funding stats that they see in their plans, but nonetheless, some maybe wish to act and they may do it this year or in looking at their ROI or they may be thinking about this over longer term. But we continue to see opportunities for people to look at BLS work, bulk lump sum work, that have diversified allocation strategies and liability driven investment strategies such that they can limit the damage to their funding levels. And so we continue to see that as an opportunity. In our health and benefits business, our HCB business, we see revenue opportunities around off-cycle products, bundled solutions and voluntary benefits. We have also been seeing rather H&B retention rates in some of the geographies, obviously due to COVID. They are not putting any kind of changes high in their list and this is obviously helping to offset the risk of reducing the business sales. From a challenge standpoint, unemployment, with the increases in unemployment and the ultimate result in lower commission, it has an impact on lower commission revenue, just in terms of thinking about it. From a CRB segment standpoint, we are seeing opportunities in risk analytics services, our risk management consulting activities. We are seeing obviously in the aerospace industry and John mentioned this just in terms of general economic conditions or you are seeing stuff as it relates to hospitality areas and even to some degree, the global finex and finance solutions, lower deal volumes and lower M&A activity obviously having some impact overall. If you look at our IRR segment, our reinsurance business, clients are using reinsurance as protection. Damage to investment portfolios and consequent drop in capital surplus means that most clients are likely to retain their current levels of reinsurance purchase. We are obviously continuing to see rate increase and a tailwind from rates. And obviously we are seeing some risk as pressure from clients are continuing to look for ways to look at reductions. And back to the earlier question around TRANZACT, it has been very strong for us in our BDA segment. The retiree client interest, there continues now to be a continued uptick and people looking at cost savings. And obviously, where we present in our BDA segment a real opportunity for people to manage their cost particularly in a pre and post 65 through our exchange operations. So hopefully to give you some feeling flair what's actually happening across our segments without going in any more detail, John, I think I will pause there and just to kind of hopefully gave some color to the question.