Prudential plc (PRU) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

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Thank you for standing by and welcome to the Prudential PLC 2025 full year results Q&A audio webcast call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. If you wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone. I will now hand over to Patrick Bowes. Please go ahead. Good afternoon. Good morning. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to Prudential PLC's 2025 results analyst and investor call. Before I turn over to Anna Wodwani, our CEO, and then Ben Bulmer, our CFO, a couple of housekeeping points. A recording of today's call will be available from Tuesday next week. Our full results package is available on our website, and I'll refer you to the disclaimers and safe harbour wordings in these documents, and they also apply to this call. Anna and Ben will start the call with opening remarks, followed by a Q&A. Also on the call today are Angel Ng, Dennis Tan, Rajiv Mittal, and Naveen Tayyiani. Now let me pass over to Anil, our CEO, to start us off. Thank you, Patrick. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I would like to begin by expressing my sincere thanks to our retiring chair, Shriti Videra. Shriti has successfully led the board through a period of significant change for Prudential, through economic and political turmoil, and of course, the challenges of the COVID period. She has been a staunch supporter of the management team throughout our transformation journey. I'm very grateful for her leadership of the board and her counsel to me, and I wish her all the very best in her future endeavors. I'm also delighted to welcome Sir Douglas Flint as our incoming chair. who will take up the role at the conclusion of the AGM. Douglas has experience of financial services and strong knowledge of the mark...