Carl Lindner
Management
Good morning. We appreciate the opportunity to talk about AFG, a subject we enjoy talking about. Here is what Craig and I are going to talk about today. Key question is to why invest in AFG? Few things that we’re going to be talking about are core values, corporate culture, diversified specialty niches, the momentum in the premium growth side and the property and casualty side, the strong annuity performance, superior underwriting talent and culture, superior investing talent, what we’ve been doing intelligently to use excess capital. And talk about some good things, the growth in the book value and our compounded shareholder return. Let me just a little bit about our corporate values. We have 30 separate specialized entrepreneurial insurance units, which have full responsibility and full accountability for their businesses. We think it’s a good model. They are fun jobs. I like to tell our employees that we have 30 CEOs, and we have very little turnover in those positions. I think we probably lost one of those presidents in probably last 10 years. And we have a culture that people enjoy working with it and to write incentives. And we have a very cohesive deep management team. The environment and culture itself starting with integrity, which is where things need to start. That’s clearly at the top of our values in our corporate culture. We do have a strong work ethic, but interestingly enough, we’ve been a company that’s been at balance with the family and work for about 25 plus years. And again adds to an environment where the average employee that works for us, not just our management team who likes our culture, who likes what we’re doing and we’re an exciting place to work. We’ve got great spread in diversity of our business. None…