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Well, hi, everyone.

Thanks so much for coming out.

We're really thrilled to be doing this live recording of the Longview.

I'm Jeff Battack, Chief Ratings Officer for Morning Star Research Services.

Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.

We wanted to start off by thanking Ben for the warm welcome, also to the Rittholds team for

organizing this wonderful conference and also the other conference organizers

for their tireless efforts to bring this to fruition.

At this point, I'm really pleased to introduce our colleague, Nizar Tarhouni.

Nizar, if you're not familiar with him, we won't give you sort of the full CV.

He heads up research for Pitchbook, which is a Morning Star affiliate.

They're a premier provider of data on public and private markets. We're going to focus a little

bit more on the private markets for purposes of today's discussion. I would say it's very much

aligned with some of the things that we've been talking about recently at Morning Star relating to

the evolving investor. And sort of the concept there we've been talking about recently at Morning Star relating to the evolving

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