Aberdeen Group Plc (ABDN) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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WEBVTT 00:00:00.031 -- 00:00:04.037 Good morning and thank you for joining Aberdeen's results presentation for the first 00:00:04.037 -- 00:00:06.381 half of 2025. 00:00:06.381 -- 00:00:11.869 I'm here today with Siobhan Boylan, our very new Group CFO who only joined us last week. 00:00:11.869 -- 00:00:16.557 Siobhan brings us over 30 years of experience in financial services and I'm delighted 00:00:16.557 -- 00:00:22.728 to welcome her to Aberdeen. Okay, let me get into the results presentation. 00:00:22.728 -- 00:00:26.894 I'm going to kick us off with an overview of the group's strategic and operational progress 00:00:26.894 -- 00:00:31.541 in the first half. I will then hand over to Siobhan who will get us into more detail 00:00:31.541 -- 00:00:34.525 on financial performance and comment on the outlook. 00:00:34.525 -- 00:00:37.489 And we'll follow up with Q&A. 00:00:37.489 -- 00:00:41.515 Let me start with a reminder of the group's ambition. 00:00:41.515 -- 00:00:46.903 As I set out in March, our ambition is to be the UK's leading wealth and investments 00:00:46.903 -- 00:00:50.723 group. We're starting from a strong base. 00:00:50.723 -- 00:00:56.131 Both of our wealth businesses, Interactive Investor and Aberdeen Advisor, 00:00:56.131 -- 00:01:00.838 offer long-term savings and investments to UK customers. 00:01:00.838 -- 00:01:05.705 This market has excellent long-term growth potential, driven by the UK population's clear 00:01:05.705 -- 00:01:10.332 need for great value savings, retirement and investment propositions. 00:01:10.332 -- 00:01:15.458 II was the number one by flows in the UK direct-to-consumer market last year. 00:01:15.458 -- 00:01:20.583 And after another strong performance in H1, II now serves 00:01:20.583 -- 00:01:23.584 over 460,000 customer...