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Aon Corp. (AOC) is in the Business Services Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $7.4B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $864.0M
- Market Cap
- May 08 2008
- $14.1B
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Marsh & McLennan Posts Loss on Kroll Write-down
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marsh & McLennan Cos (MMC), which runs one of the world's largest insurance brokerages, on Wednesday posted a first-quarter loss, as it wrote down the value of its Kroll risk consulting and technology unit. The net loss totaled $210...
Branding a Human Resources Identity - And Taking It Global
In modern day times, companies must "Sell" themselves to the people they want to hire and "Re-recruit" their current employees so they will stay. The key to unifying an existing population and creating a successful recruiting and retention experience is Human Resources Branding - the practice of developing, differentiating, and...
In War for Talent Recruitment, Process Outsourcing Helps Build Hiring Advantage
With today's mobile workforce and rapid company growth, HR departments generally do not have the manpower to continuously identify and hire talent. Plus, focusing on full-life-cycle recruitment responsibilities does not allow HR to be completely effective. The solution may be to outsource all or part of its recruitment efforts to...
Rising Health Care Costs in Workers' Compensation Market Call for Creative Solutions
Rising medical costs and directives to control expenditures have justifiably had the attention of "C-suite" management in the last few years. During that time, the U.S. medical delivery system has witnessed the emergence of consumer-driven health plans, growth in health promotion/wellness, adoption of disease management, and the introduction of networks...
Measuring Retirement Readiness
IBM, General Motors, Verizon, Hewlett-Packard, and many other employers - both large and small - have frozen their defined benefit (pension) plans during the past few years. In fact, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI), between 1985 and 2004, the number of single and multiple employee pension plans...
Defined Benefit Pensions: The Employer View
This paper reveals how soaring Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme costs are inhibiting many companies' ability to operate, compete and ultimately survive. While previous research has focused on the costs of providing DB plans, this report shows the extent to which pension costs are influencing a company's fundamental, day-to-day operations....
Business Process Outsourcing Provides Alternatives to Middle Market Clients
Traditionally, only large national and multinational organizations tended to outsource certain business processes. But, as outsourcing has evolved, it is more accessible to smaller or middle market companies with 1,500 to 15,000 participants. Companies typically outsource HR administrative functions, allowing HR to focus on strategic operations, generalist functions, core business...
Employers Reconsider Critical Illness Insurance for the Workplace
Critical Illness Insurance (CII) has been derided as little more than a repackaging of the cancer policies of the 1950s by those who recall the fear tactics inherent in its early marketing. But surprisingly, it has also been praised as the "Product-of-the-decade" by those who see its broad potential against...
Aon Crisis Management: Stand-Alone Terrorism Insurance Market Update
A substantial stand-alone terrorism market has developed since 9/11. This market has enough capacity to fill gaps adequately in most property insurance placements where the property 'All risks' insurers are unwilling to offer terrorism coverage. Government backed terrorism insurance schemes have also assisted in providing terrorism capacity. The effectiveness of...
Enterprise Risk Management Quantification: An Opportunity
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has been getting an increasing amount of attention in recent years. While various industries, regions of the world and professional organizations may have coined different names for their general framework, the underlying theme is the same. Companies and organizations are recognizing the value in assessing, prioritizing...
A Strategy for Incorporating Risk Assessment in the Compliance and Ethics Agenda
In spite of the increasing importance of compliance and ethics, many companies, even in heavily regulated industries, address compliance and ethics on an ad hoc basis. Many attempt to manage their risks without the benefit of hard facts or a clear understanding of the implications. Those organizations that tend to...
Political Risk
Forecasting how the political risk map will change in future is difficult because of the unpredictability of world events. However, as is already apparent from the developments outlined above in Venezuela and Bolivia, energy is certain to become a greater focus of attention in this context. With global oil and...
If You're Outsourcing Benefits Administration, Communication Is Key
For the world's largest organizations, outsourcing has become a standard practice in Human Resources (HR) departments. A recent survey found that 75 percent of major corporations outsource at least some part of the HR function. Moreover, companies are outsourcing more activities than ever before, going beyond the annual benefits enrollment...
Health Care Trend Survey
This paper reports about a survey which indicates that medical plan costs are forecasted to increase at double-digit rates. It depicts that the reasons for these increases include: increasing patient demand for services, an aging population, lessening of tight managed care controls, increasing medical technology costs, increasing hospital costs, increasing...
DB/DC Bundling Can Simplify Administration Burdens and More
Plan participants' demands for more personalized total retirement information and the need for accurate and cost-effective administration have driven significant changes in the nature and scope of services available to plan sponsors. In order to assist plan sponsors in addressing different issues, many major vendors in the retirement plan marketplace...
Executive Onboarding Coaching: Protecting Investments by Ensuring New Leaders' Success
How do companies protect their investments and accelerate time-to-full-productivity of new leaders? Best-in-class organizations identify and proactively manage their new executives' potential obstacles to success. Aon has worked with some of these organizations to implement an executive onboarding process intended to ensure that new leaders can be operating effectively within...
Improving Return on Compensation Investment: A Financial Services Case Study: The Private Client Business
In the private client business, compensation is not only the single largest cost, but also the most strategically important. Without industry-leading relationship managers, portfolio managers, and financial consultants, a private client firm has no hope of succeeding. Yet, many private client organizations treat compensation as an expense to be controlled...
The Value of Auditing Your Long-Term Disability Program
Many employers have historically audited their health care, pharmacy, and dental programs as a matter of fiduciary and cost due diligence. Plan sponsors are increasingly recognizing that auditing disability programs can maximize their effectiveness and yield direct financial benefits. This paper outlines the benefits of auditing Long-Term Disability (LTD) programs,...
Developing Innovative Workers' Compensation Strategies in a Changing Market
This industry challenge has afforded Aon the opportunity to help clients better manage workers' compensation medical costs through alternative strategies, tactical resources and analytical tools that integrate group health care approaches and disability management techniques. Through this integrated multipractice process aimed at a 'Best-in-class' managed care program for workers' compensation,...
Pandemic Influenza: Managing the Risks of an Invisible Threat
It is little wonder individuals and businesses are either confused or apathetic about the growing media obsession with predictions of the next influenza pandemic. While international organizations will be tracking and dealing with any pandemic, its effects on individual businesses will invariably be in the hands of the business itself....
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- Incorporated: 1979
- CEO: Mr. Gregory C. Case
Aon is a holding company. Co.'s Risk and Insurance Brokerage Services segment acts as an advisor and insurance broker, and is engaged in risk management, and negotiating and placing insurance risk with insurance carriers through its global distribution network. Co.'s Consulting segment offers advice and services to clients for employee benefits, compensation, management consulting, communications, human resource outsourcing, strategic human resource consulting, and financial advisory and litigation consulting. Co.'s Insurance Underwriting segment provides specialty insurance products, including accident, health and life insurance.
Aon Corp. Company Info
Board of Directors
Mr. Patrick G. Ryan
Executive Chairman
Mr. Robert S. Morrison
General Richard B. Myers
Mr. Richard C. Notebaert
Mr. John W. Rogers Jr.
Ms. Gloria Santona
Dr. Carolyn Y. Woo Ph.D.
Mr. Gregory C. Case
Mr. Fulvio Conti
Mr. Edgar D. Jannotta
Mr. Jan Kalff
Mr. Lester B. Knight
Mr. J. Michael Losh
Mr. R. Eden Martin
Mr. Andrew J. McKenna
Contact Information
200 E. Randolph Street
Chicago, IL
312 381-1000
NAICS Code
Management Consulting Services: 54161
