Prudential plc (PRU) Q2 2025 Earnings Call

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Good morning everybody and thank you for joining us on today's Prudential Half Year Results 2025. My name is Drew and I'll be the operator on today's call. During the call, after our prepared remarks, we will have a Q&A session. If you would like to register a question on today's call, please press star followed by one on your telephone keypad and to withdraw your question, it's star followed by two. It's now my pleasure to hand over to Patrick Bowles to begin. Please go ahead when you're ready. Thank you, Drew, and good afternoon and good morning to everyone. Welcome to Prudential PLC's half-year 2025 results analyst and investor call. Before I turn the call over to Anil, our CEO, and Ben, our CFO, a couple of housekeeping points. A recording of today's call will be available from Tuesday next week, and our full results package is available on our website. Anil and Ben will start the call with opening remarks followed by a Q&A, as you've just heard. And just a quick word on recent developments we have shared with the market already regarding the potential listing of our shares in ICI Prudential Asset Management Company. We published the draft prospectus on the 9th of July. However, we remain under a number of restrictions as to what we can say about this given the next stage of the process is to undergo a series of regulatory reviews. We will provide you with further updates in due course. With that, let me pass over to Anil, our CEO, to start us off. Anil. Thank you, Patrick. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us today for our 2025 first half results and capital management update. I'm very pleased with our financial performance in the first half of 2025, during which we delivered both high-quality growth and enhanced sha...