Schroder Oriental Income Fund Limited

well good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Schroder oriental income fund plc annual results webinar coming to you today from the Schroder's headquarters in the heart of the city of London I'm Roland Jones I'm responsible for the investment trust sales here at Schroder's and I'm pleased to be your host over the next 35 minutes or so I'm also very pleased to be joined by your portfolio manager Richard Sennett. Good morning, Richard.

Morning, Roland. Good morning, everyone.

Richard has got over 35 years' experience and has recently returned from a trip. Not quite, Roland. OK. Over 30. Just returned from a... trip to Australia. And over the next 35 minutes or so, we're going to talk about the performance of the trust over the results period, the positioning, a little bit of outlook on our views for the region, but also, very importantly, the importance of generating a dividend from a portfolio of Asian equity stocks. So we're going to spend a little bit of time on that topic over the next 35 minutes. Now, you will have plenty of time to ask questions ask questions I have my iPad please fill them in send them send them to me you've also got the opportunity to download the annual results and today's presentation so it's all there there's also a survey at the end we'll be very grateful if you could fill that in because that's really useful for us so we can make sure that these presentations are sort of meeting your requirements in the future so that's the the agenda for today Richard, tell us a little bit about the team that we have in Asia, because that's very important, isn't it? Let's cover that.