Weston Tucker | Head of Investor Relations |
Stephen Schwarzman | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer |
Tony James | President and Chief Operating Officer |
Michael Chae | Chief Financial Officer |
Joan Solotar | Head of Private Wealth Solutions & External Relations |
Craig Siegenthaler | Credit Suisse |
Glenn Schorr | Evercore ISI |
William Katz | Citigroup |
Christopher Shutler | William Blair |
Brian Bedell | Deutsche Bank |
Alexander Blostein | Goldman Sachs |
Robert Lee | KBW |
Michael Cyprys | Morgan Stanley |
Michael Carrier | Bank of America/Merrill Lynch |
Patrick Davitt | Autonomous Research US LP. |
Devin Ryan | JMP Securities |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Blackstone Third Quarter 2017 Investor Call. My name is Tony and I will be your operator for today. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] I would now like to turn the conference over to your host for today, Mr.