Good day. And welcome to the Assurant Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results Conference Call. Today’s conference is being recorded. All participants will be in a listen-only mode during the presentation. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be given at that time. At this time, I would like to turn the conference over to Ms. Melissa Kivett, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead, Ms. Kivett.

Okay. Thanks, [David]. Welcome to Assurant’s second quarter 2011 earnings conference call. Joining me with prepared remarks are Rob Pollock, President and Chief Executive Officer of Assurant; and Mike Peninger, our Chief Financial Officer. Prepared remarks will last about 20 minutes and then we will open the call to questions. Chris Pagano, our Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer, is also here for questions. Yesterday we issued a news release announcing our second quarter 2011 financial results. The news release, as well as corresponding supplemental financial information is available on our website at assurant.com. Some of the statements we make during today’s calls may contain forward-looking information. Our actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements can be found in our 2010 Form 10-K which can be accessed from our website. The company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. Additionally, this presentation will contain non-GAAP financial measures which we believe are meaningful in evaluating the company’s performance. For more detailed disclosures on these non-GAAP measures, the most comparable GAAP measures and a reconciliation of the two, please refer to yesterday’s earnings release and the supplementary financial information that’s posted on our website at assurant.com. Now, I’m glad to turn the call over to Rob.

Thanks, Melissa, and good morning, everyone. Midway through the year, we are delivering on the commitments we outlined at our 2011 Investor Day. These commitments include profitable growth, reducing expenses and improving ROEs. Here’s some examples from the quarter. Profit improvement continues at Assurant Solutions as we grow our wireless service contract and preneed businesses. At Specialty Property we are increasing loans tracked in our lender-placed business and expanding our offerings to rental property managers. Our new strategy at Assurant Health is gaining traction as we sell new affordable products to provide consumers access to the healthcare system. We are also demonstrating strong expense management and at Assurant Employee Benefits, sales of voluntary products are gaining momentum, as we help employers provide more benefits for their employees. Now, I will highlight our progress at each business. I’ll begin with Assurant Solutions, results continue to improve. The global economy continues to be a headwind for Assurant Solutions but we are winning new clients. This demonstrates our products and services are meeting customer needs. We are setting the stage for longer term profitable growth, combined ratios are improving, preneed place sales remain at healthy levels and our sales pipeline is strong for service contracts including wireless. New sales help offset the continued run off of Circuit City and the decline in the domestic credit insurance business. Overall, solutions 2011 earned premiums will be similar to 2010. We expect earned premiums to grow in 2012. We are well-positioned to deliver on our commitment of a double-digit ROE in 2012 with continued improvements expected in the out years. Moving to Assurant Specialty Property, quarterly results reflect the impact of unprecedented weather-related events. We are helping our customers affected by the severe storms and will continue to do so as they rebuild and repair their…

Thanks, Rob. Let’s start with Assurant Solutions, where second quarter 2011 net operating income was just under $40 million, a 31% increase versus the second quarter of 2010. Improved underwriting results in Canada, Europe and domestic service contracts drove the year-over-year increase. Domestic net earned premiums increased in the wireless, retail and automotive channels. These increases were offset by declines from the continued run off of Circuit City and our domestic credit business. The domestic combined ratio was 96.6% for the quarter due to improved seasonal loss experienced in our wireless business and lower general expenses versus last year. We expect this ratio to move slightly higher in the second half of the year but it should be less than its 98% long-term target for the full year. Internationally, net earned premiums increased 16% versus the second quarter of 2010, driven by growth in Latin America from both new and existing clients. Premiums and fees were up slightly in Europe as we focus on wireless opportunities. The international combined ratio decreased 320 basis points from the second quarter of 2010. The improvement was driven by better loss experience in Canada and profitable growth in Latin America. Improved results in Europe due to the pricing actions taken in the U.K. and growth in the rest of the region positively affected the combined ratio as well. The international results improved despite the increase in new wireless client implementations which temporarily pressure the combined ratio. For 2011, we remain on track for a 200 to 600 basis point improvement in the international combined ratio versus the fourth quarter of 2010. Preneed’s net operating income increased 11% versus the second quarter of 2010. Our partnership with SCI continues to generate strong sales for the business, these sales in excess of $200 million during the…

Thank you. (Operator Instructions) And our first question will come from Ed Spehar with Bank of America.

Good morning, Ed.

Hi, Ed. Ed Spehar – Bank of America: Good morning. Thank you. Mike, you were going a little bit quick there. I was just wondering if you could sort of go back at Solutions and could you cover again a little bit of some of the drivers in domestic and what you had said? And then I wanted to ask a question on the dividends that have been taken so far in the year-to-date, from the subsidiaries and how you are thinking about sort of the capital structure debt issuance or anything else in terms of if you happen to find other acquisition opportunities? Thanks.

Okay. I’ll talk about Solutions and then turn it over to Chris, but what I mentioned, Ed, was that earned premiums are increasing in wireless and retail and domestic. We continue to get nice growth in Latin America and then in terms of the overall premiums you’ve got the offsetting decline that we’ve talked about in the past from Circuit City and domestic credit business.

And that the improvement, Ed, if you recall, we have been working hard on our risk management efforts in Solutions and so business that they wrote in ‘09 and ‘10 was better than earlier years and is now earning off the balance sheet. Okay? So we feel good about that but as Mike pointed out, our target on that is 98.

Right. And that’s what we believe is kind of our price for levels there. And if we turn -- Chris, do you want to comment a little bit on operating company dividends?

Sure. Let me -- maybe start and give you a couple of reconciliations and then I’ll talk a little bit more about the outlook and some of the other elements of capital management. But, we started the first -- we ended the first quarter, excuse me, with $585 million of holding company capital in aggregate. We took $160 million of dividends. We spent or returned about $127 million to shareholders, $17 million in the form of shareholder dividends and then $110 million of repurchases. That leaves you at about 620. Then corporate had some cash in-flows which is really just a reflection of timing differences of about $30 million. Keep in mind, in the first quarter that cash outflows were about 60. So you are looking at, again, the difference between cash and accruals. That leaves you with the 650 at the end of the second quarter. What’s not in there, okay, is the $45 million purchase price of SureDeposit. What we did there was rather than take a dividend from Specialty Property from earnings and then send the money back down to buy SureDeposit, Specialty Property just wrote the check out of their first half earnings. Now, if you think about -- let’s talk about first half results and then on a go-forward basis, got about $250 million of net operating income in aggregate for the first half, $160 million of dividends. That leaves 90 of earnings that are still at the segments available for dividends. We spent -- Specialty Property spent $45 million of that. So we got to think about it as the first half earnings that were available for dividends in the second half, about $45 million. Now, in terms of kind of the outlook and Rob and Mike both mentioned that we are expecting to…

Yeah. Well, I think we look every quarter at what’s going to happen in the quarter, you know, looking forward, Ed and evaluate what our capital position is relative to what we see going on. Now, Chris and his team did a tremendous amount of work on the Risk Management side to help us better qualify tail event risk, okay. That was a big part of our Risk Management process over the last of couple years, which has given us a better line of sight on our capital position and understanding of where we sit as we move into things. Other thing I’d point out is our method of buying stock is a 10b5-1 plan and we have flexibility around how we set up and structure that program. Okay? Ed Spehar – Bank of America: And just one last one, what is the -- what do you consider to be the debt capacity today?

Again, it’s similar number that we said in the past, $3 million to $350 million of opportunistic debt capacity. We were at just under 18% debt-to-total cap, so it gives us a lot of room there. The other thing on the financial flexibility side and one thing that we’re looking at carefully right now is the possibility of extending the maturity of our credit facility. The current facility is due to expire at the end of 2012. We believe we can put another facility in place that goes out to 2015, will just give us a little bit more flexibility on that front as well. The other thing I would point out… Ed Spehar – Bank of America: Mike…

Sorry, Ed. Ed Spehar – Bank of America: No, no. I was just -- go ahead.

Okay. The question around capital and on a go-forward basis, Rob’s point about us re-assessing it every quarter, which we continue to do and I think the way we looked at this quarter is that with $400 million of deployable capital and a share price trading where it is, this is a good time to deploy capital and return it to shareholders via share repurchase. Ed Spehar – Bank of America: Thank you.

(Operator Instructions) Our next question comes from Chris Giovanni with Goldman Sachs.

Good morning, Chris. Chris Giovanni – Goldman Sachs: Good morning. Thanks so much. One follow-up just on the capital, I mean, is the cat reinsurance program where you guys bought more coverage maybe giving you guys a little more comfort to purchase shares, maybe earlier than you would have originally expected?

Well, I think certainly the ability of our decision to buy the program -- the cat program in two steps allowed us to take advantage of the cat market earlier in the year, which gave us I think more cover or perhaps a better program than we might had we bought it all at once in June. I think the issue around cat and what’s going to happen with the reinsurance market on a go-forward basis is really going to be a 2012 event, but the issue around being able to buy back through cat season -- I think is really about having $400 million of capital above and beyond the buffer which is what we set aside to protect us against tail risks such as cat. So again, it’s the strong capital position, a good feel for the ability to get earnings out as dividends from the operating segments and a share price that’s -- as I said very undervalued. Chris Giovanni – Goldman Sachs: Okay. And then in the health segment, Rob, you had mentioned sort of $24 million of expense saves to date. Can you talk about, sort of, how much room you have left there? And then also, I know in 1Q you guys expressed some optimism around seeing a sequential improvement in sales and that sort of receded here in 2Q, so can you comment if that’s sort of seasonal or is there something else going on there?

Sure. Couple of things and then I’ll let Mike make some comments as well. But first, Chris, the $24 million is a quarter-over-quarter compared to the 2010 number, all right? And as we outlined last year, we took some expense actions last year to reflect the new environment. We’ve made changes to our commission structures. We are pleased with the progress but we know that more will be required going forward as the models change, because we are just operating off a different model. The old model was get to the lowest combined ratio you can, the new model is we are operate -- you want to manage that loss ratio to the required level and then you are operating off the difference and that’s where our profits have to come from. So we are pleased with the progress we are making. It demonstrates we can adapt as the market changes and we feel quite good about the progress we are making. Related to the sales side of things, you know, there is a bit of seasonality. I’d also say, though, we are working through adoption by the brokers to the change in the landscape. We are pleased. We’re holding seminars on that to get them up-to-speed on that. We’re doing integration with our enrollment system. Actually, we’ve had some very good progress with our supplemental products and attachment rates there. So we feel good about that. Mike?

I was just basically going to say the same thing that when you look at our sales, we’ve got sort of the traditional core products and then we’ve got the affordable products that we’re selling that we think are meeting. So we think we cover the gamut of, sort of, consumer needs out there and we’re seeing solid results, as Rob said, in the adoption of our affordable plans that we feel quite good about, actually. Chris Giovanni – Goldman Sachs: Okay. Thank you and then just one last one. In Specialty Property, have your sort of steady state scenario that you provided at Investor Day, has the time line or any of that changed given, you know, maybe some of the more lackluster, you know, macro and housing data that’s come out recently?

I’ll start and say I think Gene provided a really good outline in the Investor Day at our view on what could happen. Obviously, we had a little pickup in placement rates again during the quarter. I think our belief is still that those will peak sometime this year, but, you know, we acquired clients in 2010. That’s helped lift our -- we are quite focused on that gross earned premium number and those have grown some. We mentioned that we will have another client coming on-board late in the year that will produce next year. That, again, will emulate that track level that Gene’s outlined. The big one is obviously is going to be the economy and government policy relating to supporting housing and we don’t have a clear line of sight on that, Chris. Chris Giovanni – Goldman Sachs: Okay. Thank you very much.

And next we’ll hear from Mark Hughes with SunTrust. Mark Hughes – SunTrust: Thank you. The 200,000 loans that are coming over, are you getting all of the existing premium on that? Are you going to start to billed once they get transferred?

We believe that one’s going to be a flat cancel, Mark. Mark Hughes – SunTrust: Okay. So you would get all the premium in that case?

Yeah. What that means is that beginning in the first quarter, we will get the premium on the policies that exist today and then new placements will be ours as well. Mark Hughes – SunTrust: Nice. The gross written premium in Solutions is quite strong. You talked about the wireless retail, automotive. Were there new relationships there that helped give you a nice boost? How sustainable is that momentum as we look at the next few quarters?

Yeah. We feel that Solutions is developing some good momentum and that some of the growth is coming from our Lowe’s relationship, Mark, and that one, remember, is top line but heavily reinsured, so not all of that drops through to the bottom. And we kind of provided that outlook for this year. The earned premiums will be leveled despite the credit and Circuit City declines, but we should see net earned premium growth next year. I think if you can look on the balance sheet a little bit at the unearned premium within Solutions and that’s growing, again, as Mike pointed out, the Lowe’s account is heavily reinsured right now. But we are working hard to figure out how we can add additional value to that account. But Solutions is definitely finding some opportunities out there we feel, like that momentum is starting, so that’s good. Mark Hughes – SunTrust: Right. And then any regulatory updates on the Specialty Property side, anything you see that has changed?

No. Again, we think we have a very compliant program. We think that we are operating within all the rules. We are really not a party to any of the discussions that are going on with the state AGs and the servicers, but obviously, we look forward to resolution of the issue because we think that it’s certainly something that is weighing on us. Mark Hughes – SunTrust: Thank you.

And our final question will come from Ed Spehar with Bank of America. Ed Spehar – Bank of America: My question was answered. Thanks.

Sure.

And this concludes Assurant’s second quarter 2011 call. Please note that a replay will be available as of 11 a.m. You may now disconnect.