LONDON (dpa-AFX) - Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc. (MMC) announced that its Board has voted to increase the Company's quarterly cash dividend by 5 percent to $0.23 per share on outstanding common stock. The dividend is payable on August 15, 2012 to shareholders of record on July 11, 2012.
The company also announced that shareholders re-elected the entire slate of 2012 director nominees for a one-year term expiring at next year's annual meeting. They are Zachary Carter, Brian Duperreault, Oscar Fanjul, Edward Hanway, Elaine La Roche, Lord Lang, Steven Mills, Bruce Nolop, Marc Oken, Morton Schapiro, Adele Simmons, Lloyd Yates and David Yost.
The company noted that the shareholders ratified the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2012, and approved, by nonbinding vote, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.
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