Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. reports developments across risk, reinsurance and capital advisory, people and investment consulting, and management consulting. Company updates often center on Marsh Risk and its digital risk analytics tools, Mercer workforce, compensation, health and retirement advisory alliances, Oliver Wyman consulting operations, and Marsh McLennan Agency insurance, benefits, retirement and wealth solutions in the U.S. and Canada.
Recurring news also covers quarterly operating results, enterprise partnerships, AI-enabled service delivery, leadership and governance changes, material agreements, and capital-structure matters tied to the company's common stock and debt financing.
Oliver Wyman, a Marsh business (MRSH), named Birgit Boykin chief people officer of Oliver Wyman and Marsh Management Consulting, effective October 1, 2026. Boykin joined Oliver Wyman in 2025 as chief people officer for the Americas. In her new role, she will work with leaders on a global people strategy and join the Oliver Wyman Global Leadership Team and Marsh People Leadership Team.
Marsh (MMC, MRSH) released its 2026 Global Asset Owner Barometer, based on 430 large asset owners managing a combined US$5.76 trillion, highlighting portfolio shifts driven by geopolitical risk, inflation and new opportunities.
Over the past 12 months, 48% adjusted geographic positioning, 37% reduced overall portfolio risk and 37% increased liquidity or cash. Looking ahead 12 months, 51% plan to raise infrastructure allocations, 47% emerging market equities and 41% inflation‑linked assets, while 38% intend to increase cash, up from 9% in 2025. Private markets are almost universal, with 96% reporting exposure versus 80% in 2025, but only 34% plan to add to private debt, down from 48%.
Governance is lagging rapid AI adoption: 32% report AI use without mature governance, 23% are still developing policies and only 13% have enterprise‑wide AI frameworks. Even so, 58% rank AI tools as a capital expenditure priority over the next year, ahead of data management (46%) and risk systems (33%). In the near term, 75% see geopolitical risk as a significant concern, with inflation and AI or technology disruption each cited by 73%, while 83% view technology, automation and broader disruption as significant over a five‑ to 10‑year horizon.
Marsh (MRSH) will release its third quarter 2026 financial results via news release on Thursday, October 15, 2026, before the market opens.
President and CEO John Doyle and COO and CFO Mark McGivney will host an investor teleconference at 8:30 a.m. EDT, including a question-and-answer session. A live, listen-only audio webcast and, approximately two hours later, a replay will be available on the company’s website. Investors who wish to ask questions must register in advance to receive dial-in numbers and a unique PIN for the call.
Marsh (MRSH) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.990 per share on its outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on November 13, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on October 1, 2026.
Marsh (MMC) will appoint Matt Stadler as CEO of Marsh Agency effective January 1, 2027, succeeding David Eslick, who will remain Chairman; both will report to Marsh Risk President and CEO Nick Studer.
Stadler, currently President of Marsh Agency and CEO of the Southwest region, joined Marsh in 2015 via the MHBT acquisition and has over 20 years of middle-market insurance experience. John Stanchina, now CEO of the Mid-Atlantic region, will become President of Marsh Agency in January, while Guy Morrison will succeed him as CEO of the Mid-Atlantic region. The company said Eslick has led an acquisition-led growth strategy in which Marsh Agency acquired more than 100 agencies and expanded to over $5 billion in revenue since 2009.
Marsh (MMC), together with the nonpartisan Milken Institute, released a new report on innovative financing for community resilience to extreme weather events. The report, titled Ensuring a Better Future: Innovative Financing for Resilient Communities, responds to global disaster losses that have exceeded $200 billion annually for the past decade and rising uninsured losses. It identifies barriers to private‑sector investment in resilience and outlines five models to mobilize capital, including community plans with early insurer engagement, revolving loan funds, resilience bonds, and technology investment funds. The work highlights Marsh’s role in structuring the first US “resilience” catastrophe bond and notes that a version of the community plan model is under active consideration for Altadena’s rebuild.
Marsh (MRSH) released preliminary results from its 2026 National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, showing that US employers expect total health benefit cost per employee to rise by an average of 8.2% in 2027, even after planned cost-reduction measures. Employers indicated that, without such actions, costs would increase about 11%. The 2027 projection would mark the fifth consecutive year of elevated cost growth and the highest increase since 2003; the 2026 increase was projected at 6.7%. Marsh highlights ongoing cost drivers such as advanced diagnostics and therapeutics, health system consolidation, and lower public program reimbursements, as well as newer factors including GLP‑1 medications, AI-enabled billing, and Independent Dispute Resolution outcomes under the No Surprises Act. The firm reports most employers plan benefit design changes and higher employee premium contributions, while some are adding lower-cost, quality-focused options like variable copay and high-performance network plans.
Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) released results of its July 2026 Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of 1,001 U.S. organizations, showing employers on average plan 2027 merit salary increases of 3.2% and total salary increases of 3.5%, broadly consistent with 2024–2026 actuals. Merit budgets are highest in High Tech (3.8%), Banking (3.7%), Energy (3.6%), Insurance/Reinsurance (3.6%), and Non-Financial Services (3.6%), and lowest in Consumer Goods (2.9%), Healthcare (3.0%), and Retail (3.0%).
According to Marsh, 57% of employers expect the economy to have at least a moderate impact on 2027 pay decisions, and as of July 2026, 87% of organizations still had preliminary salary budgets. Employers expect to promote 8.4% of their workforce in 2027, down from 8.6% in 2026 and 9.9% in 2025, while 64% have provided or will provide off-cycle salary adjustments. The survey also indicates growing use of AI and automation in compensation: 70% of organizations report some automation, with AI most commonly used for market pricing and benchmarking (53%), salary increase recommendations (50%), and job matching and leveling (49%).
Oliver Wyman, a business of Marsh (NYSE:MMC; NYSE:MRSH), announced it has joined Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network as a Select Services Partner. The network recognizes organizations with certified capabilities in deploying Claude. As a Select Services Partner, Oliver Wyman gains access to Anthropic technical resources, collaboration opportunities, and visibility on the Claude Partner Hub, helping enterprises identify qualified AI advisors.
According to Oliver Wyman, the designation highlights its global Quotient AI team and its experience advising on more than $50 billion in AI-related capital deployment, supporting clients in using AI to drive growth, performance, resilience, and capital mobilization.
Mercer, a business of Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), and Compa announced a strategic alliance to integrate Mercer’s global compensation insights into Compa’s AI-powered Analyst Agent for enterprise compensation teams.
The collaboration aims to embed market pricing and pay decision support directly into everyday compensation and recruiting workflows.