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Well, hello everyone and welcome to yet another national call in this kind of bi-weekly series, and you'll notice that I'm a man down

today. Scott Gam is not with us today as part of his Jewish holiday, and he sends his regards,

and we'll look forward to rejoining at our next call. And I think that the election,

the special election issue that we had done, the version of this call a couple weeks ago,

was the week after Labor Day, if I remember correctly. And so there was a little bit of

things that were kind of off in terms of the timing.

And now we're going to have another one of those events.

So we were actually on quite a role of every two weeks.

Our next call and Scott will rejoin us to that time will be three weeks from today.

And the reason is that two weeks from today is Monday,

October the 12th. And beginning on October the 12th through that entire week, all the way through

the Friday, Dea Pernas, who is our managing director in our Solutions and Analytics Group

and a senior member in our investment committee.

And Brian Sateau, who has been a partner at the Bonson Group for a very long time and also in

our investment committee, they will be in New York that week with me and we are going to be

doing a sort of different version of a week that we've been doing

for many years in New York.

And that is meeting with all of our money managers and key portfolio management relationships.

And so on that Monday where we normally be doing the call, which actually would be 2 o'clock Eastern,

and we have our meeting with VOIA fixed income right at 2 o'clock that Monday.

So because we can't meet that day, we're going to make it Monday the 19th for our next call with Scott,

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