{"id":5096,"date":"2026-07-26T19:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/marshs-numbers-show-what-a-soft-market-looks-like-from-the-brokers-side\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:51:02","slug":"marshs-numbers-show-what-a-soft-market-looks-like-from-the-brokers-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/marshs-numbers-show-what-a-soft-market-looks-like-from-the-brokers-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh&#8217;s numbers show what a soft market looks like from the broker&#8217;s side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2><strong>How Marsh compares to the rest of the sector<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Whether this pattern is Marsh-specific or sector-wide isn&#8217;t fully clear yet, since most of its peers haven&#8217;t reported Q2. Aon is due to release its Q2 2026 results on July 29 &#8211; after this piece was filed &#8211; so a direct comparison isn&#8217;t possible today. For context only, Aon&#8217;s first-quarter 2026 results, reported on May 1, showed revenue of approximately US$5 billion, up around 6% year over year, with adjusted EPS climbing 14% to roughly US$6.48 (these figures come from secondary reporting rather than Aon&#8217;s own release, so treat them as approximate). That&#8217;s a similar top-line growth rate to Marsh&#8217;s Q2, though it&#8217;s a Q1-to-Q2 comparison rather than a clean like-for-like. Given Aon Reinsurance Solutions operates in the same soft reinsurance pricing environment as Guy Carpenter, it&#8217;s a reasonable bet &#8211; though not yet a confirmed one &#8211; that Aon&#8217;s reinsurance broking revenue is under similar pressure. That&#8217;s worth revisiting once Aon&#8217;s actual Q2 numbers land, to see whether the same broking-versus-consulting split shows up there too.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Marsh compares to the rest of the sector Whether this pattern is Marsh-specific or sector-wide isn&#8217;t fully clear yet, since most of its peers haven&#8217;t reported Q2. Aon is due to release its Q2 2026 results on July 29 &#8211; after this piece was filed &#8211; so a direct comparison isn&#8217;t possible today. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1529,324,4157,4158,2100,4130,3190],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-brokers","tag-market","tag-marshs","tag-numbers","tag-show","tag-side","tag-soft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}