{"id":636725,"date":"2026-04-28T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:21:11","slug":"marsh-insurance-has-decided-it-wants-to-be-a-racing-car-and-you-know-what-fair-play-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636725\/","title":{"rendered":"Marsh insurance has decided it wants to be a racing car. And you know what? fair play to them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start with the rebrand, because it&#8217;s important context. Effective January 14th 2026, Marsh McLennan updated its brand name to simply &#8220;Marsh,&#8221; consolidating a sprawling empire of sub-brands in the process. Its stock ticker changed from MMC to MRSH, and its four businesses \u2014 Marsh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/au\/companies\/mercer\/222648\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mercer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/au\/companies\/guy-carpenter\/221323\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Carpenter<\/a>, and Oliver Wyman \u2014 began migrating under the unified Marsh umbrella. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancebusinessmag.com\/au\/companies\/guy-carpenter\/221323\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Carpenter<\/a>, for instance, will become Marsh Re. Even Oliver Wyman, which sounds like a perfectly reasonable human being, will eventually be known as &#8220;Oliver Wyman, a Marsh business,&#8221; which sounds like something you&#8217;d find stamped on the back of a manila folder in a filing cabinet that hasn&#8217;t been opened since 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s start with the rebrand, because it&#8217;s important context. Effective January 14th 2026, Marsh McLennan updated its brand&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-636725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}