Prepared Remarks:

Operator

Good morning and thank you for holding. Welcome to Aon plc's second-quarter 2023 conference call. At this time, all parties will be in a listen-only mode until the question-and-answer portion of today's call. I would also like to remind all parties that this call is being recorded.

If anyone has any objection, you may disconnect your line at this time. It is important to note that some of the comments in today's call may constitute certain statements that are forward-looking in nature as defined by the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated. Information concerning risk factors that could cause such differences are described in the press release covering our second-quarter 2023 results as well as having been posted on our website.

Now it is my pleasure to turn the call over to Greg Case, CEO of Aon plc.

Greg Case -- Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Rob, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our second-quarter conference call. I'm joined by Christa Davies, our CFO; and Eric Andersen, our president. As in previous quarters, for your reference, we posted a detailed financial presentation on our website.

We're pleased to report that our global team delivered another strong quarter performance, results, and momentum. And we begin the call today by thanking our colleagues for everything they do to help our clients address immediate and long-term demands around the risk and people. And united, delivered by our colleagues gives us the ability to meet this demand and balance across our portfolio, capitalizing on innovation and momentum and investing to meet demand. This ensures we win more, retain more, and do more with our clients. There's now almost universal agreement, the client demand to address risk in human capital has never been greater. For example, our catastrophe incident report estimated global economic losses from natural disasters in the first half of 2023 for 194 billion, notably above the 21st-century average of 128 billion and fifth highest on record. Even more profound, in addition to economic costs, we know these disasters have tragic human costs that reinforces the high value and building resiliency and protection in advance of disaster.