Mark McGivney
SVP & CFO at Marsh & McLennan Companies
Turning to capital management. Our balance sheet, we ended the quarter with total debt of $19,700,000,000 Our net scheduled debt maturity is in the first quarter of twenty twenty six, with $600,000,000 of senior notes mature. Our cash position at the end of the second quarter was 1,700,000,000.0 Uses of cash in the quarter totaled $776,000,000 and included $4.00 $5,000,000 for dividends, 71,000,000 for acquisitions, and $300,000,000 for share repurchases. For the first six months, uses of cash totaled 1,600,000,000 and included $810,000,000 for dividends, 166,000,000 for acquisitions, and $600,000,000 for share repurchases. We continue to expect to deploy approximately $4,500,000,000 of capital in 2025 across dividends, acquisitions and share repurchases.