Schroders plc (SDR) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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all in here so early so the reason we're not starting of course is we have people joining us on the zoom call so just bear with us for a couple of minutes it's astonishing how quiet you all are and you're seated already so we will be starting in a couple of minutes . . Thank you. Right. Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us and investing your time with us this morning. It really is great to see you. And welcome to everyone who has joined us on the Zoom call. Joe, it is a great privilege to be stood in front of you as the CEO of this amazing company. And I know you've really come to hear about the results and what we're going to be doing from a strategy perspective. If you can indulge me, I want to spend a couple of minutes giving you my perspectives on that will hopefully also show why I'm super energized about the group. So I'm going to start with a little bit of a story. So every weekend, I sit down with my two teenage daughters and I scan the newspapers. And we have a chat about what's going on. You know, like any good parent, I thought that was all about me preparing them for the outside world. And then, of course, what I realize is I get all the benefit because they give me the views from a 19-year-old. So it's super interesting. But of course, the conversation is entirely dominated by what's all this geopolitical uncertainty, immigration, demographics, why is all this uneven growth leading to a changed political environment? And then, of course, we inevitably get onto the thing of the transformative impact of climate change and AI. Of course, they're way better than me on AI. But those are things that are going to impact their their lives and the next generation's lives and they're not going to go away so the key thing for me every week and it's not...