Guy Carpenter Wins “Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year” at The Review Worldwide Reinsurance Awards

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC's Credit, Bond and Political Risk Team won the "Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year" award at The Review magazine's Worldwide Reinsurance Awards 2009, presented last night at The Dorchester Hotel in London. This year's victory represents the third consecutive year - and the fifth time in six years - that Guy Carpenter has been awarded the "Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year" honor.

Guy Carpenter's Credit, Bond, and Political Risk Team was hailed by the judging panel "for leading the market with new-thinking solutions."

The Review Worldwide Reinsurance Awards, now in their 16^th year, annually recognize the leading performers in the global reinsurance industry. The Reinsurance Broking Team of the Year award recognizes the winning team "for generating creative solutions and added value in the risk financing process." Award winners are selected by a distinguished judging panel of industry chief executives.

QUOTES

Peter Zaffino, President and CEO, Guy Carpenter

"It is extremely gratifying that a team from Guy Carpenter has won this award for the third consecutive year. The Credit, Bond and Political Risk Team has done an outstanding job and epitomizes our firm-wide approach of providing innovative and value-added solutions to our clients. I am delighted that the team's efforts have been recognized through receipt of this award."

Greg Dobie, Editor, The Review

"Due diligence produced a host of glowing testimonials from the market for the Guy Carpenter team, particularly concerning the excellence of its day-to-day service provision."

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About Guy Carpenter

Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is the world's leading risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh & McLennan Companies. With over 50 offices worldwide, Guy Carpenter creates and executes reinsurance solutions and delivers capital market solutions* for clients across the globe. The firm's full breadth of services includes line of business expertise in Agriculture; Aviation; Casualty Clash; Construction and Engineering; Excess and Umbrella; Life, Accident and Health; Marine; Medical Professional Liability; Political Risk and Trade Credit; Professional Liability; Property; Retrocessional Reinsurance; Surety; Terrorism and Workers Compensation. GCFac® is Guy Carpenter's dedicated global facultative reinsurance unit that provides placement strategies, timely market access and centralized management of facultative reinsurance solutions. In addition, Guy Carpenter's Instrat® unit utilizes industry-leading quantitative skills and modeling tools that optimize the reinsurance decision-making process and help make the firm's clients more successful. Guy Carpenter's website address is www.guycarp.com.

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* Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the United States through GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities Corp., a US registered broker-dealer and member FINRA/SIPC. Main Office: 1166 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036. Phone: (212) 345-5000. Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the European Union by GC Securities, a division of MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd., which is authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. MMC Securities Corp., MMC Securities (Europe) Ltd. and Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC are affiliates owned by Marsh & McLennan Companies. This communication is not intended as an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any security, financial instrument, reinsurance or insurance product.





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