Andrea Prochniak | Director of Investor Relations |
Seth Bernstein | President and Chief Executive Officer |
John Weisenseel | Chief Financial Officer |
Jim Gingrich | Chief Operating Officer |
Michael Carrier | Bank of America Merrill Lynch |
Bill Katz | Citi |
Alex Blostein | Goldman Sachs |
Craig Siegenthaler | Credit Suisse |
Rob Lee | KBW |
Thank you for standing-by and welcome to the AllianceBernstein's first quarter 2018 earnings review. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session and I will give you instructions on how to ask questions at that time.
As a reminder, this conference is being recorded and will be available for replay for one week. I would now like to turn the conference over to the host for this call, the Director of Investor Relations for AB, Ms.