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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 27, 2008--Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC, the leading global risk and reinsurance specialist, was named “Best Global Reinsurance Broker” and “Best Global Casualty/Liability Broker” at Reactions magazine’s Global Awards 2008, held yesterday at The Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza, in New York.

“In today’s challenging environment, we work hard to deliver value and service to our clients,” said Peter Zaffino, President and CEO, Guy Carpenter. “We therefore are honored to be recognized for our efforts by our industry peers for our global broking operations, and more specifically for our casualty/liability expertise.”

The Reactions Global Awards is a peer-nominated awards program designed to recognize the corporate and individual achievers across the insurance and reinsurance markets. Reactions polled more than 4,800 risk managers, brokers, reinsurance/insurance managers, directors and CEOs to determine which firms, deals, initiatives and industry leaders are achieving exceptional performance.

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 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; 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.

* Securities or investments, as applicable, are offered in the United States through GC Securities, which is 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. Advice on securities or investments in the European Union is provided through GC Securities Ltd., authorized and regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Authority. Reinsurance products are placed through qualified affiliates of Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC. MMC Securities Corp., GC Securities 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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