Marc Grandisson | President and CEO |
Francois Morin | EVP, CFO and Treasurer |
Joshua Shanker | Deutsche Bank |
Amit Kumar | Buckingham Research |
Elyse Greenspan | Wells Fargo Securities |
Michael Zaremski | Credit Suisse |
Yaron Kinar | Goldman Sachs |
Meyer Shields | KBW |
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the First Quarter 2019 Arch Capital Group Earnings Conference Call. At this time all participants are in listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder this conference call may be recorded.
Before the company gets started with its update, management wants to first remind everyone that certain statements in today's press release and discussed on this call may constitute forward-looking statements under the federal securities laws.