MMC

Marsh & McLennan Cos.

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Is MMC Halal?

Insurance brokerage and finance consulting raise gharar and riba concerns.

What You Should Know

Marsh McLennan's March 31, 2026 filing shows debt/assets of 35.19%, above the examined FTSE, MSCI and Malaysia debt limits; liquidity/assets is 2.75%, receivables plus cash/assets is 17.14% and disclosed interest income/revenue is 0.14%. Insurance placement, fiduciary balances and conventional-finance consulting remain qualitative concerns.

⚠️ Concerns

  • Debt/assets exceeds the examined financial limits
  • Conventional insurance and reinsurance brokerage involve gharar concerns
  • Consulting for banks, insurers and conventional finance can facilitate non-compliant contracts
  • Fiduciary cash is excluded from corporate liquidity and needs careful interpretation

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on 10-Q figures for the period ended 2026-03-31; calculated 2026-07-14.

USD · millions
Interest-bearing debt / assets
35.19%Above limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

20,602 / 58,552

Cash + interest-bearing securities / assets
2.75%Within limit
Below 33.333% under FTSE Yasaar

1,611 / 58,552

Receivables + cash / assets
17.14%Within limit
Below 50% under FTSE Yasaar

10,038 / 58,552

Non-compliant income / revenue
0.14%Within limit
No more than 5% under FTSE Yasaar

11 / 7,597

FTSE Yasaar
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 35.19%, above the examined FTSE 33.333% limit; the other identifiable ratios pass, but the financial screen fails independently of the incomplete activity review.

MSCI Islamic (total-assets series)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 35.19%, above the examined MSCI 33.33% total-assets limit; receivables plus cash/assets is 17.14%.

Malaysia SAC financial ratios
single 5% activity benchmark adopted November 2025
Financial
Fails
Overall
Fails

Debt/assets is 35.19%, above the examined Malaysia 33% limit; this is a calculation against the named ratios, not an official classification.

Market-cap denominator methods
MSCI M-Series, S&P and Dow Jones methods differ
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

A licensed historical market-cap series is not stored; the debt screen fails independently.

Business-activity disclosure

Marsh McLennan provides insurance brokerage, risk, reinsurance, consulting and employee-benefits services. Advisory work can be permissible, but conventional insurance placement, fiduciary balances and finance-related consulting raise gharar and riba questions that require product-level review.

Limitation: The filing does not allocate revenue into a universal prohibited-activity numerator for insurance placement, reinsurance, fiduciary and conventional-finance consulting services.

Purification

Marsh McLennan discloses $11 million of interest income but does not prescribe a scholar-approved purification percentage; the disclosed ratio is evidence for the income screen, not a complete purification prescription.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • Amounts are USD millions from Marsh McLennan's March 31, 2026 Form 10-Q and rounded to the nearest million.
  • Debt includes $1,702 million of short-term debt and $18,900 million of long-term debt; operating leases are excluded.
  • Corporate cash is $1,611 million; $11,744 million of cash held in fiduciary accounts is excluded from the issuer's liquidity numerator.
  • Receivables, net are $8,427 million and first-quarter revenue is $7,597 million; interest income is $11 million.
  • No separately identified interest-bearing securities balance is added.

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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