Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (FFH) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning and welcome to Fairfax's 2025 second quarter results conference call. Your lines have been placed in a listen only mode. After the presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. At that time, to ask a question, please press star one on your phone keypad. For time's sake, we ask that you limit your question to one. Today's conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. Now, your host for today's call is Peter Clark with opening remarks from Mr. Derek Bulis. Derek, please begin. Good morning, and welcome to our call to discuss Fairfax's 2025 second quarter results. This call may include forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ, perhaps materially, from those contained in such forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of uncertainties and risk factors, the most foreseeable of which are set out under risk factors in our base shelf prospectus. which has been filed with Canadian securities regulators and is available on CDAR+. Fairfax disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law. I'll now turn the call over to our president and COO, Peter Clark. Thank you, Derek. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Fairfax's 2025 second quarter conference call. I plan to give you some highlights and then pass the call to Wade Burton, our president, and Chief Investment Officer of Hambla-Watsa to comment on investments, and then Amy Shirk, our Chief Financial Officer, to provide some additional financial details. We had an excellent second quarter with net earnings of $1.4 billion, up from $915 million in the second quarter of 2024. This gives us net earnings of $2.4 billion for the first half of 2025. O...