Gregory C. Case
Analyst · Goldman Sachs.
Well, I'll try to answer this and we can come back if I'm missing anything. Back up Aon Benfield, roughly 85% treaty overall, 10% fac, about 5% on the investment banking or the capital market side that you were describing before. And we really -- while you can break it out in these categories, what we're really looking at is how do we help clients improve their capital efficiency? How do we actually help them think about improving return on invested capital and driving value from the standpoint of improved operating performance, a stronger balance sheet or reducing their volatility. That really is the fundamental sort of thesis behind what we do, and we actually bring a range of solutions in each of these categories to actually help clients do that. And in the context of doing that, you can imagine, if you can sit across the table from a client, look them in the eye and tell them you can increase their return on invested capital, the remuneration to Aon Benfield takes care of itself. And that's really, fundamentally, how we built the business. And it turns out, we are in the #1 position in each one of these categories: #1 in treaty, #1 in fac and #1 in capital markets. And just from the standpoint of just the, sort of, the insurance length securities piece, this is something we've been involved in for a long time. Everyone talks about kind of data and analytics and it's kind of the nouveau for most people, it's not for Aon Benfield. We've been doing this for 10 years. We invest over $120 million a year, hard dollars and content capability. And ILS is an example, it's something that's -- we focus on and we do very, very well. If you think about all the transactions since 2010, we've been involved in about almost 50% of them, 47% of them. So 29 transactions, that's 10 more transactions than #2 or #3, who happen to be investment banks. If you think about year-to-date, in 2013, I think we've done 9 deals, which probably it's half of the deals. So this is something that we're very, very involved in. It's still a modest part of overall business, but something that's very, very important in sort of what we do. And we don't think necessarily about the economics one-off. We think about it for a client, when you think about the treaty complement, the ILS complement and the fac complement, how do we improve return on invested capital for them. So for us, it really is a broad-based complement and a suite of capabilities being brought to the table with the horsepower of data and analytics that is very unique in the industry today. So I know that it didn't answer exactly what you asked, but I really want you to understand, philosophically, how we think about the business and why we see the opportunity here so positive over time.