Aon plc

So I was like, sounds good to me.

Uh, and then, so he set me up with an, um, interview with Aon and Guy Carpenter now known as Marsree, um, and then Willis at the time.

Um, And so interviewed with all three and Guy Carpenter felt a little too formal at the time.

And Willis was an interview over a sushi lunch.

My book followed me.

But BMS at the time was still kind of going, you know, its early days in transformation and realized, like, I just didn't want to be a reinsurance broker anymore.

And I know if I wanted to be successful, I had to be at one of the big alpha houses, Aon.

or Willis at the time.

that's a 7% annual increase over the past three years, they're going to see a 9.5% jump.

That's according to the HR firm Aon next year.

It's hard to imagine that this rate of inflation can be tolerated by small businesses, by the federal government, The bond market, with half of what federal government spends now going to fund Medicare, pay for the government's share of Medicaid, and pay for the interest required in the money, our nation needs to do something if we're going to try to rein in that ever-growing deficit.

So let me start, Jonathan, by asking you, if you think these numbers make sense to clinicians, and if so, what do you think they should do? And I'm talking about from a strategic perspective to cushion themselves from what seems to be coming inevitably.

There are also just some general legal firms that will also provide advice.

Sometimes I push them back through, like if they're under Aon, they can get two hours of legal advice.

So sometimes like non-compete clauses and things like that will encourage them to go and access that.

Perfect.

And I think if you peel the onion on that exercise of the differences there, it's explanatory of a lot of what's going on in the healthcare market today.

A interesting development in the employer market that we've been seeing that's relatively broad-based is Aon, perhaps the largest benefit consultancy, has announced a quasi D2C.

I say quasi because it is a B2B to C marketplace.

Basically, if let's say Health Tech Nerds was a customer of Aon, Kevin, you could say...

We're going to be offering Access Choice the worst possible name.

I'm sorry, guys, but both of those names are already taken in the healthcare world right now.

But I agree.

It is an interesting kind of play and to me indication of... that this market does have legs.

Hello and welcome to the Aon Retirement and Investment Podcast.

I'm John Harney.

And I'm Louise Dale.

Today we'll be talking about the recently released results of the Aon's DC and Financial Wellbeing Survey.

Taking that into the context of changing member expectations and the advent of pensions dashboards, there's plenty of food for thought.

But before that, let's catch up on the latest pensions and investment news.

TPR's statistics show that 67% of schemes reported a surplus in tranche 19 and this compares with 39% in tranche 16 when many of these previous valuations for these schemes were undertaken.

The average technical provisions funding ratio for schemes in tranche 19 was 106% compared with 94% in tranche 16.

Hi, everybody, and welcome back to EBNet Stream for today's episode of Industry Insights.

I'm joined by Jackie Null, who is the Business Unit Head of Healthcare at Aon, really to touch base with her about an article of hers we recently published about the things to think about when making your medical aid plan choices for 2027.

So welcome to EBNet Stream, Jackie.

Thank you very much, Natalie.

If one of your kids are asthmatic, they're going to be getting all that basic cover within a primary health insurance cover.

So there definitely for me is the understanding there's a place for it.

At our organization, Aon, we actually, if a client is downgrading from a medical scheme, to primary health insurance, we make them sign a declaration that they fully understand the implications of that downgrade.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it's important to kind of break down like, what are the data? What are the types of data that are there? So in this case, you want to get what's the benchmarking data from peer relevant firms.

And so you might go outside and get something from Aon or one of the other large benchmarking companies.

That's one set.

I also try to grab things that are a little more qualitative.

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