Willis and Marsh beef up share buyback programmes

Marsh & McLennan Companies and Willis Towers Watson have
signalled further capital repatriation to investors with expanded
share buyback programmes.
The brokerage parents both said they were adding to existing
share repurchase programmes.
At Marsh, owner of reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter, the board
of directors authorised $2.5bn to be added to its existing buyback
plan, according to a statement from the New York-based company.
The parent of insurance broker Marsh had repurchased 10 million