Marsh & McLennan's (MMC) Unit Divests Atlas to Stoch Analytics
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.’s MMC business, Oliver Wyman, recently announced the acquisition of its Atlas Software business by Stoch Analytics. Stoch Analytics Limited is a newly formed private firm and was earlier a business of Oliver Wyman.
Oliver Wyman Actuarial Consulting and Oliver Wyman will continue their partnership with Stoch Analytics in the future, further benefiting from its expertise. Atlas is a modeling platform based on the cloud used by companies in the Life insurance space for carrying out valuation, pricing, and asset liability management. Regulatory changes for Life and Retirement insurers will further foster the growth of analytical solutions.
This move bodes well for MMC’s Oliver Wyman, as it will be able to serve clients better with the help of Stoch Analytics. Stoch Analytics will be able to focus more on the development and delivery of risk management and actuarial solutions. Lately, the demand for performing complex modeling has increased for life insurers. Hence, to be able to serve this gap in the market bodes well for MMC. Atlas, being one of the most efficient and fast modeling platforms, should help insurers in decreasing their cloud expenditure and augmenting their actuarial and financial resources.
Stoch Analytics’ solutions will now include the Atlas software solutions and iReplicate policyholder compression tool, helping shorten the model runtime by 90% or more. Oliver Wyman is a faster-growing business for MMC. It expects business to register growth in mid-to-high-single digits over the long term. We expect Oliver Wyman’s revenues to grow at a three-year CAGR of 7.9% by 2025.
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