Weston Tucker | Senior MD, External Relations Group & Head, IR |
Stephen Schwarzman | Chairman, CEO & Founder |
Jonathan Gray | President, COO & Director |
Michael Chae | CFO |
Hamilton James | Executive Vice Chairman |
Joan Solotar | Senior MD |
Alexander Blostein | Goldman Sachs Group |
Craig Siegenthaler | Crédit Suisse |
Michael Cyprys | Morgan Stanley |
Glenn Schorr | Evercore ISI |
William Katz | Citigroup |
Robert Lee | KBW |
Michael Carrier | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Kenneth Worthington | JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
Patrick Davitt | Autonomous Research |
Gerald O'Hara | Jefferies |
Devin Ryan | JMP Securities |
Brian Bedell | Deutsche Bank |
Christoph Kotowski | Oppenheimer |
A very good day, and welcome to the Blackstone Second Quarter 2019 Investor Call. [Operator Instructions]. I would also like to advise all parties this conference is being recorded. And now I would like to hand over to your host for today, Weston Tucker. Please go ahead, sir.