LIONTRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC (LIO) — Final Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the LIONTRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and can be submitted at any time by the q and a tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives to the meeting itself. However, company can review all the questions submitted today and publish responses where it is appropriate to do so. Before we begin, I'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to John Iain, CEO. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to his presentation for LIONTRUST's final results for the year ending 2024. With me, I'm John Irons, Chief Executive. With me on my is Vinny Admiral, chief financial officer and Simon Hilby, marketing director. Presentation today will cover a bit on the financials, a little bit on the background of LIONTRUST and a bit of our strategy going forward. I think to put it in context, maybe a few comments at the start on sort of where we have been and where we get to. In the background, LIONTRUST is very much a specialist asset management business focused on active fund management. And in twenty eight years ago, I became chief executive a little over fourteen years ago. We've got offices in London, Luxembourg and Edinburgh. As I said, you know, very experienced management team here. We have eight different teams very much, you know, focused the areas that they invest in. Assets under management, currently a little under 28,000,000,000 and the market capitalization of the business is a little over 400,000,000. And they say, well, you know, base tenant behind LIONTRUST...