Marsh (MRSH) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Welcome to Marsh's earnings conference call. Today's call is being recorded. Second quarter 2026 financial results and supplemental information were issued earlier this morning. They are available on the company's website at corporate.marsh.com. Please note that remarks made today may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, and a variety of factors may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such statements. For more detailed discussion of those factors, please refer to our earnings release for this quarter and to our most recent SEC filings, including our most recent Form 10-K, all of which are available on the Marsh website. During the call today, we may also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. For reconciliation of these measures to the most closely comparable GAAP measures, please refer to the schedule in today's earnings release. If you have a question, please press star 1-1 on your touchtone phone. If you wish to be removed from the queue, please press star 11 again. If you're using a speakerphone, you may need to pick up the handset before pressing the numbers. Once again, if you have a question, please press star 11 on your touchstone phone. I'll now turn this over to John Doyle, President and CEO of Marsh. Thanks, Andrew. Good morning, and thank you for joining us today to discuss our second quarter results. I'm John Doyle, President and CEO of Marsh. On the call with me is Mark McGivney, our COO and CFO, and the CEOs of our businesses, Nick Studer of Marsh Risk, Dean Klusura of Guy Carpenter, Pat Tomlinson of Mercer, and Ted Moynihan of Marsh Management Consulting. Also with us this morning is Jay Gelb, Head of Investor Relations. To start, I'd like to ackno...