Daniel S. Glaser
Management
Sure. Why don’t I start with that and then I’ll move it around the table so each of the operating company CEOs can give some commentary on it. But as I mentioned in the script, I really do believe we are living in unprecedented times, essentially in Asia, risk and uncertainty. It’s also in Asia relentless acceleration. Opportunities and challenges develop faster than any point that I’ve seen in my career. Over the past few years, the world has seemingly traded a set of financial concerns whether that’s global growth, financial stability, unemployment, or a new set of financial and economic concerns, which is less about stability and less about unemployment and more about growth. And so you’re reading now a lot of growth concerns whether that’s with regard to continental Europe, the developing market, particularly China, et cetera. And the looming potential threat of recession or even deflation in certain economies and into all of that economic bucket is a set of political and geopolitical concerns that we just haven’t seen really until the last couple of years. And so then, I guess, you could add to the mix discreet items such as Ebola or cyber attacks and it creates quite a mixture of concern for us. I mean, from our perspective being so well positioned around the world and in 130 different countries, issue on an economy basis, if you are talking macro, really it’s about continental Europe more than any other factor because as we have mentioned before, if we look at Europe including the UK, it’s about a third of our business. UK is about a half of that. So you’re still talking about continental Europe representing 16, 17% of our business. If you recall in mid 2013, so not too long ago, about a year ago, most economists became cautiously optimistic about European prospect and believing that GDP had dwarfed. We still seem to be bouncing around the bottom as far as we concern – as we are concerned. When we look at the data points month-to-month, it’s very consistent. It’s one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward, one step back, particularly in continental Europe. It’s clear that relative to the US and the UK continental Europe is choppier and has a more uncertain economic environment. In the past, insurance has acted kind of as a lagging indicator and consulting has pretty much been a forward indicator in terms of business activity and confidence but why don’t I stop there and just move it around the table and get some commentary. Scott, you want to kick this off?