Robert Berkley | President and Chief Executive Officer |
Richard Baio | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
William Berkley | Executive Chairman |
Amit Kumar | Buckingham Research |
Kai Pan | Morgan Stanley |
Arash Soleimani | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. |
Michael Zaremski | Credit Suisse |
Yaron Kinar | Goldman Sachs |
Ian Gutterman | Balyasny |
Brian Meredith | UBS |
Good day, and welcome to the W.R. Berkley Corporation Second Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. Today’s conference call is being recorded. The speakers’ remarks may contain forward-looking statements.
Some of the forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words including, without limitation, beliefs, expects or estimates.