ASR Nederland N.V. (ARNNY) Q2 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for joining us today on this call. So welcome to the ASR conference call on our results for the first half of 2024. On the call with me are Jos Baten, our CEO, and Ewad Holagiet, our CFO. And Jos will kick it off with the highlights of our financial results. He will give a brief integration update and discuss the business performance. Ewad will then talk about the developments in our capital and solvency positions. After that, we will open up for Q&A. We have ample time planned for this call, but we'll stop at 10.30 sharp. Please observe a limit of two questions, so that makes sure that everybody has an opportunity to ask the questions that they have. And finally, as usual, please do review the disclaimer that we have for many forward-looking statements, which is in the back of the presentation. Having said that, Jos, the floor is yours. Thank you, Michel and good morning everyone. Thank you for joining on this on this early morning call. I hope everyone has been able to to enjoy a very relaxing vacation and I am pleased and also proud to report a solid set of results for the first half of 2024. Notwithstanding the focus on executing a successful major business integration, we have continued our commercial momentum and I believe that we are firmly on track to deliver on the ambitious targets that we have presented at the Capital Markets Day in June. We report a significant increase of the figures. This mainly reflects our underlying business performance, which has continued at strong levels across the organization, as well as a step up from the addition of the Aegon NL businesses. we are happy to provide additional insights into our performance in this call today. So let's turn to slide two for the most important highligh...