Carl Drake | Partner and Head, Public IR & Communications |
Michael Arougheti | Co-Founder & President |
Michael McFerran | CFO & EVP |
Kipp deVeer | Head, Credit Group |
Bennett Rosenthal | Director, Co-Founder, Partner & Co-Head, PE Group |
Craig Siegenthaler | Crédit Suisse AG |
Michael Carrier | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Christopher Harris | Wells Fargo Securities |
Kenneth Worthington | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
Kenneth Lee | RBC Capital Markets |
Douglas Mewhirter | SunTrust Robinson Humphrey |
Michael Cyprys | Morgan Stanley |
Alexander Blostein | Goldman Sachs Group |
Robert Lee | KBW |
Welcome to the Ares Management, L.P.'s Third Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions].
As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded on Friday, November 3, 2017. I will now turn the conference over to Carl Drake, Head of Ares Management Public Investor Relations.
Good morning and thank you for joining us today for our third quarter 2017 conference call.