CHICAGO, Aug. 4, 2008 - Risk & Insurance Magazine, a leading risk management publication, has recognized 23 reinsurance brokerage, capital markets and analytics professionals from Aon Re Global as "Reinsurance Power Brokers" in the publication's annual list of the most influential commercial reinsurance brokers.

Published in the August 2008 issue, Risk & Insurance Magazine recognized individuals and teams in the categories of Analytics/Capital Markets, Casualty, Catastrophe, Facultative, Professional Liability and Property. Aon Re Global individuals and teams were recognized in every category - highlighting the company's breadth of expertise and its unique ability to provide distinctive client value.

Aon Re Global Fac, Aon Capital Markets, and Aon Re Global Services all took top team honors, as did several treaty reinsurance brokers, with the 23 Aon Re Global selections outperforming the number of selections from all other intermediaries. Selections were based in part on marketplace feedback.

Analytics/Capital Markets Category
Aon Re Services Team: Bryon Ehrhart, Dan Dick, Greg Heerde, Stephen Mildenhall, Paul Miller Aon Capital Markets Team: Paul Schultz, Jason Bolding, Bill Delaney, Chris Lefferdink, Sean McCarty

Casualty
Karl Amidon

Catastrophe
David Glover, Brad Melvin, Kelly Smith

Facultative
Aon Re Global Fac Team: Elliot Richardson, Stuart Beatty, Ludovic Ferrand, Paul Summers, Derek Talbott

Professional Liability
Frank Hand, Theresa Schugel

Property
Todd Billeter, Rod Thaler

More information about Reinsurance Power Brokers can be found on the Risk & Insurance Web site at riskandinsurance.com.

About Risk & Insurance ®
Risk & Insurance ® provides business executives, risk executives and insurance professionals with the insight, information and strategies they need to mitigate challenging business risks. The magazine reports on a wide variety of business risks and mitigation strategies - from insurance, employee benefits and alternative risk transfer to emerging risks and the strategies for addressing them. Reinsurance Power Brokers is one of three sections that appears throughout the year that identifies the best reinsurance brokers, employee benefits brokers and insurance brokers in a variety of industry-based categories.

Risk & Insurance is published monthly and twice-monthly in April, September and October.

About Aon
Aon Re Global, the world's leading and most preferred reinsurance intermediary, provides clients with integrated capital solutions and services through a world-class network of experts in more than 35 countries. Clients are better able to differentiate and meet their business objectives with Aon Re Global's best-in-class treaty and facultative reinsurance placement services, capital markets expertise, and relevant analytics and technical expertise, including catastrophe management, actuarial and rating agency counsel.

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting. Through its 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources, technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was named the world's best broker by Euromoney magazine's 2008 Insurance Survey. In 2008, Aon ranked highest on the Business Insurance ranking of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto www.aon.com.