Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Brookfield Asset Management second quarter 2025 conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star 1 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star 1 1 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Jason Fu, Managing Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you for joining us today for Brookfield Asset Management's earnings call for the second quarter of 2025. On the call today, we have Bruce Blatt, our Chief Executive Officer, Connor Teske, our President, and Hadley Pierre-Marshall, our Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that in today's comments, including in responding to questions and in discussing new initiatives and our financial and operating performance, we make forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian and US securities law. These statements reflect predictions of future events and trends and do not relate to historic events. They're subject to known and unknown risks, and future events and results may differ materially from such statements. For further information on these risks and their potential impacts on our company, Please see our filings with the securities regulators in Canada and the U.S. and the information available on our website. Let me quickly run through the agenda for today's call. Bruce will begin with an overview of the quarter, highlighting the strength of our platform and discuss how we're positioned for long-term growth, particularly around our thematic investment strategies. Connor will discuss our accelerating pace of investment activity and monetizations, both at multi-year highs and the growing opportunity to reach individual investors through retirement and wealth channels. Finally, Hadley will walk through our financial results, balance sheet, and some of our recent strategic initiatives. After our formal remarks, we'll open the line for questions. Before I hand things over, I'd like to take a moment to welcome the new analysts who have initiated coverage on Brookfield over the past few months. We're glad to have you with us. To ensure we can hear from as many participants as possible, we're asking everyone to please limit themselves to one question. If you have additional questions, please rejoin the queue and we'll be happy to take more questions if time permits.

And with that, I'll turn the call over to Bruce. Thank you, Jason, and everyone joining us on this call.