Aon CFO Edmund Reese on 4Q Earnings, Global Risk Outlook | Bloomberg Businessweek

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But AON reported earnings this morning. EPS and adjusted operating margin uh beats topline revenues a little bit below expectations. Stock has been up about 2% intraday at its high today.

stock slight slightly lower year-to date ended slightly lower in 2025. We've got uh a great guest to talk about the company's business, the outlook. We welcome back Edmund Ree.

He's executive VP CFO of the nearly $75 billion market cap insurance brokerage company. We're talking of course about AON. He joins us once again in studio.

Nice to have you back. How are you?

Thank you for having me, Carol. Tim, — Nice to have you. — Very good. — So, tell us before we get into the quarter and talk uh about the business specifically. We keep asking leaders what it's like to be a member of the seauite in this environment.

Well, I mean this is a very for us and for our clients, it's a very volatile and uncertain environment. There's ton of news today that may bring some stability to it, but for us it's requiring more of our services and demand from our clients. Uh there's a lot going on and we have solutions that can help our clients protect their businesses and grow their businesses.

So there's a lot going on. It's an exciting time to be in my seat sitting with AON.

Do you do you ever lie there at night before you go to sleep and say to yourself, I really hope I don't wake up to a social media post from the president about the insurance industry? — Well, look, I I think we all have the same objectives here and that's really to help this economy uh be able to move and we provide solutions to help the clients with that.