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spk03: Greetings and welcome to the BRP Group Inc. Third Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Bonnie Bishop, Executive Director, Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.
spk06: Thank you, Operator. Welcome to the BRP Group's third quarter 2023 earnings call. Today's call is being recorded. Third quarter financial results, supplemental information, and Form 10-Q were issued earlier this afternoon and are available on the company's website at ir.baldwinriskpartners.com. Please note that remarks made today may include forward-looking statements subject to various assumptions, risks, and uncertainties. The company's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such statements. For more detailed discussion, please refer to the note regarding forward-looking statements and the company's earnings release into our most recent Form 10-Q, both of which are available on the BRP website. During the call today, the company may also discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. For more detailed discussion of these non-GAAP financial measures and historical reconciliation to the most closely comparable GAAP measures, please refer to the company's earnings release and supplemental information, both of which have been posted on the company's website at ir.baldwinriskpartners.com. I will now turn the call over to Trevor Baldwin, CEO of BRP Group.
spk10: Good afternoon, and thank you for joining our third quarter earnings call. I'm joined this afternoon by Brad Hale, our Chief Financial Officer, Chris Wiebeck, our Chief Strategy Officer, and Bonnie Bishop, Executive Director of Investor Relations. The robust underlying health, momentum, and operating leverage in our business was evident in this quarter's results, as we generated organic growth of 18% and approximately 480 basis points of margin accretion versus the third quarter of 2022. On the back of continued execution, growing contribution from prior investments, and ongoing efforts to drive greater free cash flow from the business. Adjusted diluted earnings per share was 29 cents, up 61% from the third quarter of 2022. Adjusted EBITDA grew 53% to 64 million, resulting in an adjusted EBITDA margin of 21% for the quarter. and free cash flow from operations grew by 29% to $76 million for the year-to-date period, despite a $36 million increase in cash paid for interest year-over-year. Additionally, as a result of the growth in adjusted EBITDA during the quarter, leverage now sits at approximately 4.8 times, representing meaningful progress over the last 12 months toward our goal of rapidly reducing leverage. From an operating segment perspective and insurance advisory solutions, we generated organic growth of 11%. In the quarter, we saw increased client sensitivity to the significant insurance rate increases they have faced over the last two years. And we've experienced softer new business from project related work and interest rate sensitive areas like construction and mergers and acquisitions. In other sectors where we have a significant presence, such as healthcare, we are seeing far less impact. And overall, solid new business trends continue to drive outsized organic growth for our IS platform relative to our peers. In August, we added a fourth center of excellence to our IS platform. Our new international center of excellence leverages our deep expertise to provide risk advisory and insurance solutions to clients with international operations and those exploring international expansion. The addition of this important capability enhances our overall value proposition to multinational businesses and, along with increased levels of specialization from the launch of other centers of excellence and industry practice groups, meaningfully expands the aperture of opportunities our risk advisors can confidently pursue. Underwriting capacity and technology solutions grew 25% organically during the quarter, with strong performance from the MGA The Future platform, which grew 29%, and achieved record new business for the renter's product line in July, typically the seasonally strongest month of the year. Homeowners also continues to exceed expectations, with premium from our E&S and non-builder admitted products up over 200%, from the third quarter of 2022. We also launched two new products during the quarter, high net worth home and commercial property, both of which are starting to gain momentum. The significant investments we have made in UCTS over the past 24 months are continuing to drive further diversification and new revenue streams into the MGA, which we expect will drive durable and profitable growth long into the future. Main Street Insurance Solutions delivered organic growth of 29%, driven by strong results in both the legacy Main Street business and Westwood. Despite some pressure in the housing market due to mortgage rates, new home sales have been resilient, and we continue to see strong attachment and insurance rate pull through at Westwood. Additionally, the Main Street team has shown tremendous grit in navigating very challenging personal lines markets in large states such as Florida, Texas, and California, where the personal lines insurance space continues to see significant rate increases. We continue to be focused on de-levering our balance sheet and on expanding margin across the business. To support those goals, and enabled by the completion of our partnership integration work, we have begun executing on organizational alignment and cost savings initiatives aimed at rationalizing and simplifying our growth services support structure to more fully align with our distinct go-to-market models and enable more nimble and effective client execution. We expect that these initiatives will provide greater operational efficiency and accelerate margin expansion and free cash flow growth beginning in 2024 and more fully into 2025. On October 17th, we announced the launch of Juniper Re, our new reinsurance broking platform. Juniper Re is a natural complement to our retail brokerage and MGA business and helps round out our capabilities as a full service broker. Juniper Re will be led by reinsurance broking veteran, Jeff Irvin. who has more than 25 years of global reinsurance broking experience. Reinsurance brokerage is a capability we have long had on our strategic roadmap because of its superior financial returns and integral position in the insurance ecosystem. And we jumped at the opportunity to launch this with a seasoned leader and team. We expect Juniper Re will begin contributing the revenue as early as the first quarter of 2024. Lastly, We announced in our 10Q that Chris Wiebeck, our Chief Strategy Officer and former Chief Financial Officer, and John Valentine, our Chief Partnership Officer, will be retiring at the end of this year. Chris will step down from our board as part of his retirement. Their retirements align with a strategic roadmap that has been in place for a long period of time and included achieving our first set of post-IPO goals related to the scale, and maturity of our business. Chris and John have made enormous contributions to BRP and have mentored scores of colleagues who are now key contributors. On behalf of BRP, I'd like to thank Chris and John for their tireless work through the years in building BRP from a small Tampa-based agency to the national firm that it is today. In summary, And as this quarter's results once again proved out, BRP remains a diversified, well-balanced business that is built to perform and deliver industry-leading growth through the various economic and industry rate cycles. As you saw this quarter, our business has meaningful operating leverage. And as we continue to earn into the past investments and maintain our committed focus on targeted expense efficiency actions, We expect margins will continue to expand meaningfully over time. I'd like to thank our colleagues for their tenacious efforts to deliver innovative solutions for our clients, helping them navigate a challenging insurance marketplace. I also want to thank our clients for their continued trust and confidence in us. With that, I will turn it over to Brad, who will detail our financial results.
spk12: Thanks, Trevor, and good afternoon, everyone. For the third quarter, we generated organic revenue growth of 19% and $306 million of total revenue. As Trevor mentioned, we generated organic growth in the quarter of 11% at IAS, 25% at UCTS, and 29% at MIS. We recorded a GAAP net loss for the third quarter of $32 million, or GAAP diluted loss per share of $0.29. Adjusted net income for the third quarter, which excludes share-based compensation, amortization, and other one-time expenses, was $33.8 million, or $0.29 per fully diluted share. A table reconciling gap net loss to adjusted net income can be found in our earnings release and our 10-Q filed with the SEC. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter rose 53% to $64 million, compared to $41.9 million in the prior year period. adjusted EBITDA margin was 21% for the quarter compared to 16% in the prior year period. This margin expansion highlights the significant operating leverage that exists in our business, which we've achieved through our continued organic growth against the backdrop of our ongoing absorption of prior year investments, which continue to earn in and perform as expected. Additionally, as Trevor mentioned, we have begun executing on organizational alignment and cost savings initiatives, aimed at the rationalization and simplification of our growth services support structure to more fully align with our go-to-market approach and drive enhanced client execution. Specifically, we expect a 10 million in-year benefit from these initiatives in 2024. In the third quarter, we paid 36 million in earnouts, and our remaining estimated undiscounted earnout obligations total approximately 332 million. In September, we opportunistically executed a fungible add-on to our term loan B, with proceeds used to pay down our revolver, leaving us with approximately $270 million of capacity on our $600 million revolving credit facility. After Q1 2025, when we have finished paying the vast majority of our earnouts, we expect significantly higher free cash flow generation and the potential for more rapid delevering. As Trevor stated, Delevering is a critical component to increasing free cash flow, and we remain committed to doing so. We expect our net leverage will continue to decrease through the end of 2023, and our goal is to delever to four times by the end of 2024, a target which includes 2024 estimated earn-out payments of approximately $135 million. In addition, given the current interest rate environment, we are adjusting our target net leverage range to three to four times, down from three and a half to four and a half times, which implies incremental deleveraging into 2025. For the fourth quarter of 2023, we expect revenue of 275 to 285 million, organic growth of 12 to 14 percent, and adjusted EBITDA between 40 and 45 million, and adjusted EPS of 10 cents to 12 cents per share, bringing expectations for the full year of 2023 to revenue of $1.21 billion to $1.22 billion, organic growth of high teens, and adjusted EBITDA of $245 to $250 million. The update to our prior full-year guidance is primarily a result of startup costs related to the launch of Juniper Re, a conservative view towards loss ratio-sensitive contingents, and the continuation of lower project-based insurance revenue in IES, which began to manifest in Q3. We expect Q4 to include compensation expense for portions of our maturing earnouts that the prior shareholders, at their full discretion, allocate to non-shareholders of the previously sold businesses. This is an accounting nuance whereby only prior owners can receive portions of the earnout that would be characterized as consideration for the business acquired. This expense, if applicable, will be a direct offset to the change in contingent consideration and neutral to the Q4 income statement. We are highlighting the matter because any compensation charge related to this will be included in our reconciliation of net income to adjusted EBITDA so that the impact on adjusted EBITDA is also net neutral. For partners whose earn out matures in Q4, the compensation expense is a maximum of $15 million subject to the full discretion of the former shareholders. Given that we are not hosting an investor day in late November as we had last year, we are sharing an initial view for 2024 financial expectations. We expect revenue of $1.38 billion to $1.42 billion, which implies organic growth towards the upper end of our long-term range of 10% to 15%. adjusted EBITDA of $320 million to $335 million, and expected free cash flow from operations of $170 million to $200 million. In closing, I would echo Trevor's comments regarding the state of our business heading into 2024 and beyond. The capital we have prudently allocated into our operating groups over the last three years has positioned us for continued outsized growth at scale and to more meaningfully drive margin accretion free cash flow expansion, and continued deleveraging. We will now take questions.
spk03: Operator? Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we will be conducting a question and answer session. If you'd like to ask your question, you may press star 1 on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset. before pressing the star key. Our first question comes from the line of Greg Peters with Raymond James. Please proceed with your question.
spk09: Hey, this is Sid on for Greg. So, we've heard some stress in the PE-backed roll-ups with higher interest costs and earn-outs. So, hoping you could provide an update on what you're seeing in the M&A market.
spk10: Yeah, hey, Sid. This is Trevor. You know, what I would say is M&A volume is down substantially. The buyer mix has shifted with the large, lowly levered publicly traded buyers, such as Arthur J. Gallagher, really being able to take advantage of the current dynamic. I'd say we definitely have noticed a number of sponsor-backed peers who have chosen to take on pretty expensive synthetic capital in the form of preferreds that have kind of high teens to low 20s, all in costs associated with them. What I'd say is it's kind of unclear to me the corporate finance logic behind deploying that capital in the M&A at double digit multiples, which is where deals are still transacting at. So from our perspective, based on where the M&A market is today, where the cost of capital is, our best use of proceeds is continuing to focus on delevering the business and investing in our continued outsized organic growth. We think there's a chance to the extent rates stay higher for longer that the stress amongst some of the more highly levered private brokers will become more pronounced And it will create accelerated opportunities for us to attract really top-tier talent. And I'd say we've seen a little bit of that transpire already this year with several teams of really kind of high capability and unique industry sectors coming over and bringing terrific expertise and driving real momentum for us.
spk09: Okay, yeah, got that. I wanted to pivot to your homeowners related products. I know you talked about some stress in the personal lines markets in some of the larger states, but hoping you could talk about more about what you're seeing there and then also how you've been able to navigate the dislocations in those markets.
spk10: Yeah, so I think it's not a surprise to anybody. The personal lines market, particularly in the homeowners side around cat exposed states such as Florida, Texas, California are experiencing significant pressure both from a pricing and capacity standpoint. And so our teams are doing incredible work helping our clients navigate those challenging marketplaces and sourcing capacity to solve their challenges. I think, in particular, this is where RMGA, the future platform, creates a real competitive advantage via our ability to build proprietary products, source capacity directly from the reinsurance markets, and bring that much-needed capacity to market, solving those challenges for our clients. So as I mentioned earlier in the call, our non-builder admitted and E&S home products, which we launched at the beginning of last year, were up 200% in premium for the quarter. We continue to see fantastic momentum and uptake, and we're very excited about the continued trajectory we're seeing there. Not only is it a really terrific growth driver for the MGA business, but it also provides much-needed capacity in our Main Street business and gives us the ability to go to both builder and mortgage channel partners with a unique value proposition of being able to deliver capacity that is very scarce in the marketplace.
spk13: All right. Thanks for the answers. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Elise Greenspan with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your question.
spk00: Hi, thanks. Good evening. You know, for my first question, you know, within insurance advisory solutions, you guys highlighted, you know, some headwinds. I think, Trevor, you called out construction and M&A slowdown. Can you just give us a greater sense of how impactful that was in the quarter? in terms of organic growth in that business? And then what are you expecting, you know, from organic growth within IAS in the fourth quarter, as well as in the guide that you guys gave us for 2024?
spk10: Yeah. Hey, good evening, Elise. Happy to. So a few things. One, in the IAS segment, as we looked at the pressure we saw from interest rate sensitive project-based revenues, such as construction, We definitely had a noticeable pullback. The rough impact is about 300 basis points to organic growth for the segment. So if you exclude the impact of the pullback in project-related revenue tied to construction, the IES segment would have grown about 14% organically. We are carrying forward... via kind of a conservative view, a similar impact into our expectation for the fourth quarter and full year of 2024. What I would also say, though, is that doesn't really tell the whole picture. You know, when you look at our construction practice more broadly, we are winning new clients at a record rate for our business, and the underlying momentum we are continuing to see in new business is very encouraging. So I don't want to leave you concerned that we're overly concerned around the trajectory and momentum. In fact, I'd say it's the opposite. And this is the entire thesis around our business that I think we've talked about from the very beginning, which is we're building a business capable of growing double digits through the cycle. And despite the weakness in certain and select pockets, because of the strength in new business, and the overall momentum, we're able to power through that with continued double-digit growth.
spk00: Okay, and then in terms of when you're talking about your guidance for next year, it seems like you're not including any M&A within that 1.38 to 1.42 revenue guide. Correct me if I'm wrong, and if that's the assumption, would 2025 be when you guys would expect to return to M&A activity?
spk10: Yeah, Elise, that's correct. We don't expect any meaningful M&A activity in 2024. As you heard Brad outline, we're adjusting our leverage policy down from 3.5 to 4.5 to 3 to 4. We expect via you know, the nearly 100% growth in free cash flow, as well as the 300 basis points of expected adjusted EBITDA margin expansion, that we're going to rapidly delever the business next year while continuing to satisfy the earn-out liabilities. So we expect to be able to delever by a full turn, and that kind of has us entering into 2025 as a very different business than where we sit today. from both a free cash flow potential perspective, a leverage perspective, and that creates a ton of capital flexibility for us at that time. But for the time being, based on where the cost of capital is, we believe it's prudent to focus our efforts on continuing to expand margin and delever the business through 2024.
spk00: And then just want to, I guess, last question. I think you mentioned from the savings effort, there should be about a $10 million in-year benefit in 2024. Just want to verify that number. And then it seems like with your guidance, you're assuming around 300 basis points of margin improvement next year. Is that what you guys are expecting there as well?
spk10: Yes, the $10 million is correct, Elise, and we are expecting about 300 basis points of margin accretion next year.
spk13: Okay, thank you. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Yoram Kinnar with Jefferies. Please proceed with your question.
spk04: Thank you. Good afternoon or good evening. I want to dig in a little deeper into the Juniper Re initiative. I guess what I'm trying to get to here is, from my understanding, building a reinsurance broker can be challenging, especially when you need pretty significant scale. So how are you thinking about that, and do you believe that it can be earnings or EPS accretive in short order, despite what could be a significant investment in the platform?
spk10: Yeah. Hey, Jeroen, great question. We're very excited about the launch of Juniper RE. As I mentioned earlier, we've long had on our strategic roadmap the reinsurance broking capabilities as a result of both of its superior financial returns, but also the integral role it plays in the insurance value chains. So there's an immense amount of strategic value to us having that capability added in amongst our retail broking and MGA capabilities. As we think about the payback period here, we think it's going to be relatively short, and there's a few reasons for that. But one, Jeff Ervin, 25-year veteran, deep relationships, is building a world-class team And so they come with built-in relationships, and they've done this before, so they're not having to learn how to do it again. Second, we have significant relationships across our business that yield real reinsurance broking revenues that we believe we'll be able to take advantage of. And so while we do believe that this will be a negative EBITDA business for us in 2024, We have line of sight to it being EPS accretive and cash flow positive in 2025, and that's roughly how we're thinking about it, which is a very rapid payback period for an endeavor of this nature, as you mentioned.
spk04: Yeah, definitely. And are you looking at targeting specific slices of the reinsurance market with this? I'm assuming that, or maybe I shouldn't assume this, but will you be going after it? Because smaller scale reinsurers, or will you be going after some of the large multinational accounts as well?
spk10: Yeah, I'd say initially we're going to be focused on specialty treaty business out the gate where we've got deep expertise around cap property programs, to say the least. But we envision the strategic expansion of broad capabilities and specialization to serve all major segments in this market over time.
spk04: Okay. One final one. Is Juniper going to be in one of the existing segments, or will you be carving out a separate segment for it?
spk10: It will be in the UCTS segment.
spk13: Okay. Thank you. Thank you.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Josh Shanker with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.
spk01: Yeah, you know, look, people make life's changes, and I'd like to know a little bit more about them. I mean, Chris and John are pretty young guys. Can you talk a little about what you said was a long time in the works, their plans to depart the company, so we can understand how that proceeded?
spk10: Yeah. Hey, Josh. So Chris is actually here with me, so happy to have him chime in as well. But, you know, when we took the company public, Chris and John and I – about a week and a half before that, we're at an industry event sponsored by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers called the Insurance Leadership Forum. It's an event that happens every October where the leadership of the top 200 brokers around the country and the top 100 to 150 insurance companies come together and spend time planning how we can solve challenges for our clients, create solutions, et cetera. And as we were walking around that event, we observed to each other how we were the youngest ones there. And Chris and John said to me, that's one of our competitive advantages. We have the kind of tenacity and the drive not only to take on big challenges, but to run fast and execute. And they said, we never want to be not the youngest people here. And so the commitment they made at that time is we're going to continue to recruit in an incredible bench of talent. We're going to mentor them and make sure that BRP is always known for having fresh, highly competent, highly capable talent. energetic talent. And so that's what we've done. And we worked through a series of goals that we'd set out for Chris and John, and we've achieved those, and frankly, more. And so I'm excited for them to enter that next chapter of their lives and spend more time with families and pursuing charitable endeavors, but they'll continue to be close friends of the firm. And as you'll see, we also have multi-year consulting agreements with them so that they'll continue to be able to provide us with their fantastic thoughts and expertise. But Chris, why don't you just share a little bit in your own words?
spk07: Josh, I appreciate it. Always nice to be appreciated. When you think about some of the goals post-IPO, You know, if you look at the guidance we've issued for next year, we basically 10X revenue. That was one of our goals. If you look at, you know, what we've done in the IAS business, you know, that's now a national platform. You know, if you go back to the first question in Q of A, you know, there's some real distress happening on the private equity broker side. You know, if rates stay higher, you know, some of them have, you know, pick interest, accruing interest. I read a Moody's report the other day. Someone's over a billion dollars of kind of unpaid interest that's picking ahead of equity. There's probably going to be a lot of stress there. And so in that world, some of where John and I focused a lot on M&A is probably more, as Trevor said, organic hiring from people that, you know, are looking for a solid ship through the storm. And I think BRP is really well positioned for that. If you go back to our MIS business, you know, at the time of the IPO, I think, you know, Goosehead certainly held the best, you know, Main Street focus, personal lines focus, fast growing. You look at where that business is today for us with Westwood, with what we're doing in Charlotte. You know, we're relatively the same size, relatively the same metrics on growth and margin as they are. And then if you look at our UCTS segment, what's happened in the MGA, you know, we had a fantastic renters business. That business is still fantastic today. It's now a business that is launching new product, and it is a broad-based platform. So, you know, for John and I on a business standpoint, you look at our post-IPO goals, and we were really able to check the box on every single one of them. I feel like the company is super well-positioned. And then on a personal side, you know, I'm actually going to coach my son's flag football team next week. He told me, you know, I've never been able to coach a team that he's played on. He's seven years old. And so there's, you know, a unique opportunity we have. Our kids are still at home and we're going to get to spend some time doing things that, you know, when you're working 90 to 100 hours a week, you can't do. And we get to make up some of that time. So we're really excited for the opportunity to spend some extra time with our family and I know John feels the same way about that. And we're just really grateful for Trevor and the team. You know, we did recruit a lot of people here and it's a fantastic platform and business. And we really think has a super bright future ahead is, you know, some of the guidance and you look forward in the 24 and 25. I think it becomes quite evident.
spk01: Thank you for that answer. And this is a real quick one. And by the way, good luck with everything. That sounds terrific. Just a quick one. the organic growth in the company was faster than the overall growth. Was there a disposition of something during the quarter?
spk12: Yeah, it was part of purchase accounting adjustments related to a prior year partnership, Josh, that was our single partnership in Q3 of last year.
spk13: Okay, thank you. Thanks, Josh.
spk03: Our next question comes from the line of Pablo. Staying on with JP Morgan, please proceed with your question.
spk08: Hi, good evening. First question, I was wondering if there are upfront charges to consider that will match the $10 million in-year benefit you're expecting in 2024?
spk12: We expect to incur some charges in Q4, Pablo, that will get booked through severance expense. But the $10 million mark is
spk11: anticipated savings in the 24 guidance that we provided.
spk08: Okay. And then secondly, Brad, on cash interest expense, it sounds like, you know, maybe delivering happens. And by that, I mean that going down. That's an amount. It seems like more like a 25 event. Would it be fair to assume that cash interest expense stays roughly the same, assuming no material change in the interest rate environment?
spk12: Yeah, we've modeled cash interest expense at approximately $120 million next year, Pablo, under the assumption that rates stay consistent with where they are today.
spk08: Got it. And then maybe this one for Trevor. I was wondering how much of a pricing kill when you're getting in the personal lines market. Would it be fair to assume that it's larger than what you're getting commercial lines at this point?
spk10: It is, Pablo. So if we look at the combined impact of rate and exposure on the business in Q3, it was about 2.3%, which is actually down from around 4% on the first half of the year. And as you parse through that, what I would say is the IS business was actually lower than that. The MIS business would have been higher than that. And so, you know, we're getting, you know, close to, if not slightly above, double-digit rate on the personal line side, whereas we're getting, at this point, largely through some contraction and exposures we saw manifest in the third quarter, as I already talked about, low single-digit impact and tailwind in the IAS business.
spk08: Got it. That makes sense. And then last for me, I don't think it's an issue for you, but I'd just be curious to hear, you know, how the balance sheets that are paired up against the NGR are feeling right now, just given what's happening on the personal line side, right? Some states insurers just don't have appetite to write. But, you know, it doesn't seem like it's an issue for you, but I'd be curious to hear what you're seeing on that side of the business. Thanks.
spk10: Yeah, I mean, Pablo, we have the good fortune of having broad-based support from a large panel of blue-chip reinsurers that you would know very well. You know, we just finished our flood renewal on improved terms and, you know, we feel really good about our capacity situation and that's a testament to the underwriting first approach that our MGA team takes and the terrific and consistent, you know, consistently industry leading loss ratios that our product lines are generating. We understand in the MGA business, we've got multiple stakeholders, and we've got to deliver consistently profitable business to our capacity providers while also providing competitive solutions and products that meet the unique and bespoke needs of our clients in the market. And our MGA team is really striking that balance incredibly well.
spk13: Great. Thank you. Thank you, Pablo.
spk03: As a reminder, it is Star 1 to ask a question. Our next question comes from the line of Meyer Sales with KBW. Please proceed with your question.
spk02: Great. Thanks. So, a lot, obviously, to digest tonight. Trevor, in your comments, you talked about conservatism. I'm going to use Brad. I apologize. About a conservative look at fourth quarter contingent commissions. I was hoping you could go a little bit deeper in there in terms of which lines of business have, I guess, less certain contingency.
spk10: Yeah. So, hey, Mayor, this is Trevor. What you're seeing there is a conservative view of a few loss ratio sensitive contingent contracts on the personal line side where we're taking a conservative viewpoint. You know, over the past couple of years, we've been doing a ton of work to kind of create master contracts with our core trading partners and generally convert those contracts from contingent loss ratio based payouts to what we would consider to be GSEs or guaranteed supplemental commissions. And as you've looked at the supplemental commission and contingent commission growth we've experienced over the past couple years, it's largely on the back of that. There's still some loss ratio sensitive contracts and Considering just kind of where certain of those are performing largely tied to convective storm activity across the U.S., we just felt it was prudent to take a conservative view.
spk02: Okay. Is there any way ballparking, I'm sorry, that issues impact like the change in view on the fourth quarter adjusted EBITDA?
spk10: Yeah, I'd attribute a few million dollars to that.
spk13: Okay, fantastic. Thank you so much. Thanks, Mayor.
spk03: There are no further questions in the queue. I'd like to hand the call back to management for closing remarks.
spk10: Thank you all for joining us this evening, and I want to thank our nearly 4,000 colleagues for their hard work and dedication. I also want to thank our clients for their continued trust and confidence in our teams. Thank you all very much, and we look forward to speaking with you again next quarter.
spk03: Ladies and gentlemen, this does conclude today's teleconference. Thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and have a wonderful day.
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