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Welcome to the Systematic Investor Series.

Welcome and welcome back to this week's edition of the Systematic Investor series with Rob Carver, Jim Cassan, Mark Resensky, Alan and I, Neil's Castleblassen,

where each week we take the pulse of the global market through the lens of a rules-based investor.

Now today and next week will be very special episodes

because we get together as a group,

even if Riches are unable to join us today,

for one big conversation and debate of topics

we believe have been important during the year,

plus we have a topic that was brought to us

by one of our listeners that I thought was very relevant.

As you know, the podcast series

is all about voicing our differences on the one topic that brings us together, namely systematic

investing. So we hope that you will enjoy this group conversation over the next two weeks.

We're recording today on December 6th, and this conversation will be split into two parts

and published on December 24th and December 31st

and therefore there will be no market wrap or performance updates we have a long list of great

topics and we'll be discussing those but before we kick off with the first topic maybe i could just

sort of like we did last year, Jim was not here,

but like we did last year, some of you had made some special preparations for the conversation.

I remember Rob was, you know, you had warmed up well with some Christmas themes. I know people

can't see us, but maybe Rob, you can just sort of highlight a little bit

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