Aon Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the risk and insurance brokerage services and consulting services businesses worldwide. The risk and insurance brokerage services business offers retail brokerage services, including advisory services to entertainment, media, financial institutions, marine, aviation, construction, healthcare, and energy industries; and risk management solutions that cover property, general liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, and workers’ compensation risks. This business also provides affinity products for professional liability, life, disability income, and personal lines for individuals, associations, and businesses; and premium finance services for small, mid-sized, and large companies, as well as offers the management of general underwriting, placement, and captive management services. In addition, it operates as a broker that provides reinsurance services, including advice; placement of reinsurance and alternative risk transfer arrangements with capital markets, actuarial, financial, and regulatory consulting; portfolio analysis; catastrophe modeling; and claims services to insurance and reinsurance companies, and other risk assumption entities. The consulting business offers consulting services in various areas, including employee benefits, compensation, management consulting, communications, strategic human resource consulting, financial advisory and litigation consulting, and human resource outsourcing. The company was founded in 1919 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.