LIONTRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC (LIO) — Half Year Results

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Good morning, and welcome to the LIONTRUST ASSET MANAGEMENT PLC Half Year Results Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time just by using the Q and A tab situated in the right corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question that received in the meeting itself, but the company can review 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. And now I'd like to hand you to CEO, John Irons. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We're here this morning to present the half year results for financial year '25. Myself, John Irons, chief financial officer, and marketing, Simon here. It's been a year of challenge and change within the industry and within LIONTRUST, continue to strive to be the best we can and stay true to our core beliefs of active management and excellence in brand and distribution. We've diversified our product range. We've broadened and strengthened our technological data and digital capability to ensure we continue to serve our clients to the best standards and the standards they expect. The highlights or points for the financial with our financials. So net flows, the line flows of 2,100,000,000, AUM a little over 26,000,000,000, adjusted profit before tax of 25.8. Business Business still maintains a strong capital position and nearly 60,000,000 there, and we have maintained our financial half year dividend of of 22 p. And I guess talk maybe a touch there. The dividend at LIONTRUST is has become high as a percentage, getting up to 17%. That sai...