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Good morning and welcome to Icon Enterprise LP3rd Quarter 2024 Earnings Call with Andrew Tino, President and CEO, Ted Papatoulou, Chief Financial Officer, and Robert Flint, Chief Accounting Officer. I would now like to hand the call over to Robert Flint, who will read the opening statement.

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Thank you, Rob, and good morning, everyone. NAV decreased $423 million from the second quarter of 2024. Positive returns in the investment fund were more than offset by declines in CVR energy, disappointing performance from auto service, and the impact of the quarter's distribution to unit holders. So first, the good news. The investment funds were up approximately 8% for the quarter. We generated positive returns from our single name longs, led by our health care investments and our refining hedges, and generated significant interest income. Our losses were predominantly caused by our broad market hedges, and we avoided any big single name losses. Moving on to the not so good. Our CVR investment was down during the quarter as cracks returned to levels that are either mid-cycle to below mid-cycle levels, further compounded by uncontrollable external power outages. In regards to our automotive services division, it has unfortunately continued to struggle. The quarter suffered from lower than expected revenue driven by staffing and inventory management decisions. We have already replaced several top members of management at Pet Boys and can already see a return to better performance. Though we see green shoots, it will be a while until our auto service division will hit its potential. I continue to believe that over a multi-year time period, there is no reason that EBITDA margins shouldn't be in the high single digits, if not double digits, versus the low single digits today. We ended the quarter with $1.6 billion of cash and cash equivalents at the holding company and an additional $800 million of cash at the funds. So as Carl likes to say, we have a significant war chest to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. As many people on this call likely know, subsequent to the quarter end, the refining market continued to soften, which led CVR to pause its dividend. Since the inception of our CVR investment in 2020-12, IEP has received dividends totaling over $3 billion. We believe that sooner or later, and unfortunately we don't know when, the cycle will swing again and CVR will return to generating significant cash flow. It is this belief that has led us to announce a proposed tender offer to buy additional CVR shares. Given the recently launched tender for CVR, additional investment opportunities both in our portfolio and in the market, and a desire to maintain our cash war chest, the Board has reduced the quarterly distribution from $1 per depository unit to $0.50. We know that some unit holders may be disappointed by the decision, but as Carl mentioned in our press release, we hope and believe that the actions we take today and in the near term will lead to increased capital returns to our unit holders in the future. Now turning to our investment segment. In terms of our top five disclosed names, we see considerable value creation potential. At SWIX, we see a gas utility that is closing its ROE gap to peers and separating the utility services business with significant growth opportunity. We see upside in both the gas utility and the service business. At AEP, we see new management closing its ROE gap, improving regulatory outcomes and benefiting from tremendous growth in electricity demand due to AI-driven data center demand. IFF is a high-quality ingredients company that should see improving organic revenue growth and increasing margins from new management. IFF trades at a significant discount to its peers on EBITDA. At Caesars, Carl has significant respect for Tom Rigg and what he has accomplished so far at Caesars. We believe we are buying a great business with tremendous asset value, a great management team that is actively buying back shares, and with a growing digital business at a free cash flow yield greater than 15%. At Bausch, we see considerable value both at BHC and BLCL. The fund ended the quarter approximately 2% net short. Adjusting for our refining hedges, the fund was 24% net long. And now I will pass it on to Ted to cover our controlled businesses.