Good morning. My name is Tunisia, and I will be your conference facilitator. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Broadridge Financial Solutions First Quarter Fiscal Year 2013 Earnings Conference Call. I would like to inform you that this call is being recorded and that all lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. There will be a question-and-answer period after the speakers’ remarks. Please try to limit your questions to one per participant. I’d like to turn the conference over to David Ng, Director of Investor Relations. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Broadridge quarterly earnings call and webcast for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013 results. This morning I’m here with Rich Daly, our Chief Executive Officer; and Dan Sheldon, our Chief Financial Officer. I trust by now everyone has had the opportunity to review the earnings release we issued this morning. The news release and slide presentation that accompany today’s earnings call and webcast can be found on the Investor Relations page at broadridge.com. Today’s -- during today’s conference call, we’ll discuss some forward-looking statements regarding Broadridge that involve risks. These risks are summarized here on slide number one. We encourage participants to refer to our SEC filings, including our annual report on Form 10-K for a complete discussion of forward-looking statements and risk factors faced by our business. Before we begin, I’d like to point out that to everyone that as a result of the Penson transaction we closed in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, the clearing business is now shown as discontinued operations and our remaining outsourcing business is included in the Securities Processing Solutions segment. Also, as a result of the reported -- reporting treatment of the Penson transaction, the financial results discussed today will address continuing operations unless otherwise stated. Our non-GAAP fiscal year 2013 earnings results excludes the impact of acquisition and amortization and other costs and Penson charges net. These costs are significant and we believe the non-GAAP information provides investors with a more complete understanding of Broadridge’s underlying operating results. A description of these non-GAAP adjustments and reconciliation to comparable GAAP measures can be found in the earnings release. Now, let’s turn to slide two and review today’s agenda. Rich Daly will start today’s call with his opening remarks and will provide you with a summary of the financial highlights for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, followed by discussion of a few key topics. Dan Sheldon will then review the first quarter financial results in further detail. Rich will then return and provide his overall summary and closing thoughts before we head to the Q&A part of the call. Now please turn to slide three and I’ll turn the call over to Rich Daly. Rich?

Thanks, David. David welcome to the formal call even though you’ve already played an integral role behind the scenes for years. For those of you who are not aware Rick Rodick, our former Head of Investor Relations has become CFO of UTI Worldwide. We are very happy for him and wish him the very best. Now, let me start by saying good morning to everyone on the call and also happy Election Day. Before we begin today’s call. I wanted to give you an update regarding Hurricane Sandy and any impact that had on Broadridge. First and foremost, all of our associates have been safely accounted for. Next, due to our extensive business continuity plans, we met all of our deliverables on time and in a business as usual manner. We expect some minor financial impact call it less than a million this quarter due to the markets being closed on Monday and Tuesday of last week. There would likely be temporary delays on certain activities such as sales closings. But given we are June 30th year end. At this time, we don’t anticipate Sandy’s impact to change any results for our current fiscal year. During Q&A, Dan and I will do our usual best to candidly answer any questions regarding Sandy beyond your regular questions about this quarter. So back to the quarter. This morning, as part of my opening remarks, I’ll talk about the following topics. First, I’ll start with an overview of our first quarter fiscal year 2013 financial highlights and guidance. Then I’ll discuss our closed sales performance, followed by an update of some key activities. After Dan provide you more the financial details, I’ll wrap it up as usual with my closing comments. Let’s start on slide four, our first quarter fiscal year 2013 financial…

Thanks Rich. I’m now on slide seven, non-GAAP EPS guidance. Rich already pointed out that we have begun to show the amortization from acquisition intangible and one-time acquisition related costs at a reconciling item between our GAAP and non-GAAP results. The first line of the chart shows the non-GAAP diluted earnings per share guidance we gave back in August of a $1.65 to $1.75. And then we add back the $0.03 per share for the quarter and we expected $0.11 per share for the year related to the acquisition intangible amortization to get to our current non-GAAP EPS of $1.76 to $1.86. Then we back out the amortization and the other reconciling items, we’ve disclosed before to arrive at the GAAP diluted earnings per share of $1.62 to $1.70. We have been showing the acquisition impact on intangible amortization in the cash flow for some time now. But we believe it is important to also show the impact to EBIT, earnings and earnings per share, which you will find a full reconciliation in the appendix on slide 21. Let’s move to slide eight, investor communication segment. We’re starting out the year as expected with recurring fee revenue growth of 9%, primarily coming from net new business and the mutual fund proxy stock record position growth. We’re still expecting $50 million to $70 million in recurring closed sales for the year with a 99% client revenue retention rate. We also benefited in this quarter from $5 million uptick in event-driven revenues from off cycle mutual fund and mutual fund proxy activity. So we believe we’re on track so far to hit our $130 million full-year event-driven revenue target. And very important, the business is still expected to drive margin improvements of over 200 basis points from both revenue and cost improvements…

Thanks, Dan. Please turn to page 10 for my summary wrap up. We’re off to a solid start in fiscal year 2013. I’m satisfied with the revenue growth and earnings results for the quarter. However, as I stated earlier, the first quarter makes the smallest contribution to our annual results due to the seasonal nature of our business. While, event-driven revenues were slightly higher and our equity trading volumes remained under pressure, our recurring revenue close sales of transactions of less than $5 million continue to show strength. As I mentioned on our last earnings call, we have a broader product portfolio and more potential right now than we’ve ever had in our history. We have multiple ways to succeed due to these expanding products that are well positioned in large markets. We have a clear proven sales strategy for growth and the right team to execute it. Despite the lack luster market environment, we are growing our business and our confident our products and regulatory activities are heading in the right direction. The momentum that Broadridge has achieved is sustainable, and is tied to our expanding product breadth and our client centric approach. The foundation of which is our service profit chain culture. We are excited and proud to be named best-in-class like CEB TowerGroup in 2012 outsourcing vendor rankings. We were cited for our client service excellence, commitment to innovation and our focus on delivering strong business insight and value to the financial industry. We have, we continued to have a very strong client revenue retention rate of 99%. We remain confident in our fiscal year 2013 guidance. We anticipate solid recurring revenue growth of 4% to 7% and total revenue growth of 3% to 4%. We expect GAAP diluted earnings per share from continuing operations to be…

(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from George Mihalos from Credit Suisse.

Just hoping you guys could dig in a little bit on the margins on the SPS side. You mentioned there is some investments, some TARP investments there. Can you provide some color on that? And then also, Dan, can you provide us the portion of SPS revenue that is fixed versus transactional?

Yeah. Okay. So when you think about the margin, we are thinking about this way. There was $10 million that really, because of the trade volumes were down year-over-year and that also to the bottom line. And we had just over $2 million what was, we’ll call one-time type of investment for TARP. Now they are in that segment, because they’re not part of an acquisition et cetera, so the point to be -- you take those two pieces and even though net new business, we are very happy with. It comes in at 50% margin. So, hopefully, that gives you some flavor there. And then on the other piece that you asked about, which is back in the appendix, which is in SPS which is on page 23. When you think about what’s going on, you saw the equity trade volumes down you see that 19% and then you see that the non-trade equity was slightly up by $2 million. And also when looked at the fixed income, it’s slightly up by just over a $1 million. All right. So we feel pretty good about both those things.

Okay. Great. And then in term of the sales pipeline, the 110 and 150 that you guys were guiding to for the year. Do you think that will now be even more back-end loaded given the impact of Sandy?

I can’t imagine that the week we just lost, where even though we didn’t have access to our sales office at 1 Park, everyone is able to work remotely with or without access to 1 Park. It just wasn’t a week where the sale dialogues were already planned took place because our clients needed to spend their time dealing with the immediate issues of their infrastructure and getting through the day’s activities that day. So, hopefully, this will be call it a couple of weeks. I don’t expect it right now to be more than that. I think that something like Sandy, where a company like Broadridge, literally perform without missing a bit. And I would say we were one of the rare entities out there, just again reinforces the strength of the focus of our model. This is what we do. We do it very well, a very detailed BC pre-plans or business continuity plans. And so, our ability to perform from remote locations, need of our deliverables without missing a bit, I believe with the exception of a couple of weeks delay that we are anticipating really reinforces the need for people to go to professionals who are focused solely on these activities versus trying to be all things to all people in a world where focus is mattering more and more, and the cost to do it is getting to be more and more difficult if you spread your efforts.

Great. Thanks, guys.

Your next question comes from Peter Heckmann from Avondale.

Peter, good morning.

Good morning, guys. Can you hear me all right?

Perfectly.

Okay. Great. Can you just talk a little bit more about the closed sales in the quarter? I think that’s the composition of that and what you might be thinking about in terms of visibility for the larger deals? Do you think is there a something from the election, is there in past uncertainty from regulatory must be, and do you think that, these decisions occur and relatively have a -- relatively better closed sales results in the next quarter?

Sure. Let me, what I actually given the two questions so far, I’m disappointed that I actually didn’t think to include this in my formal comments. One think we should need to keep in mind is, if you recall we had a very strong quarter, the last quarter of fiscal year 2012, right. We had a remarkably strong June. The strongest we were ahead to my recollection in terms of activity. So, by ending the year so strongly, we were anticipating that some of the first quarter activity, okay, could be a little weaker, just because we had such a terrific fourth quarter and June. The strength of the products and the movement in the products particularly of less than $5 million, right, continuous to be very real and we discussed that at length in our fourth quarter call. There is no question we believe that the higher end of the range will require some larger transactions. We are in more active dialogues on larger transactions in our history and we have been very fortunate and please to identify someone with Steve Racioppo’s background to join us, who comes from Accenture with extensive experience in those type of transactions and managing that C-Suite process for literally thousands of professionals at Accenture. So, we continue to believe that we have the right products, growing product risk, very strong product risk and are well-positioned and we are as you can see by the hiring of Steve and other activities, putting more resource behind successfully executing on this opportunity. I’m highly confident it’s a matter of when it’s not a matter of if. Given the needs of the industry and the growing pipeline, and that’s why in my formal comments, I put, I was very pleased with the pipeline, as the pipeline continuously grow.

Yeah. Rich, what I would add on to that one piece, because I think this is very important to how we’ve done our investments both internally in the acquisition is that if you think that about 110 to 115, we should be definitely thinking that was a 90 to 110 of deals under $5 million. And that is very important to us because the acquisitions by the way, you go back a couple of years they were only providing just around $10 million per year and they currently last year delivered just under $30 and of course, we are expecting to see north of somewhere around $40. So, anyway, I think those are very important things to also really register about how Broadridge is investing in the business and not just the large deal.

Perfect. All right. That’s fair enough. And then one just follow-up question, the timing of transfer of those 100 correspondences from Apex to Cor clearing, as well as the timing of the -- of your expectation of the wind down the Penson Canada, so both those occur this quarter or would some of that trail into calendar ‘13?

There is two combinations here. There is regulatory and there is some logistics. I think this quarter would be optimistic and probably not even realistic in its entirety. But from our performance whether it would be this fiscal year or going forward, 1Q have a clear path, which I’m saying we are at 95 plus percent of right now, which I’m very pleased about, because of the distractions that all Penson created to so many people around here, including John Hogan and myself. Now that we have a clear path, I’m not concern Pete about the timing of this, because there is revenue coming in from the existing source, there is revenue coming in from the new source and we’re just going to do what we always do which is (inaudible) and make sure it executed flawlessly.

Okay. Okay. Great. I’ll get back in the queue. Thanks.

The next question comes from the David Togut from Evercore Partners.

Hi, David.

Good morning, Rich and Dan.

Good morning.

Could you update us on unit pricing trends on year-over-year basis both in the SPS business and in proxy?

Sure. So, let me hit you first of all with the SPS business, okay. We are looking at that business still have about a 2%, we’ll call it price concession type of rate, this year it’s going to look larger because that’s were the $16 million fallout from where we were at Penson at $43 million down to the $27 million. But more importantly, we are looking at when we are out there, we are resigning additional business. I mean, one of the interesting things is, is that over 50% of our sales go back into the current client, so the way we look at pricing is a combination of new product, as well as some pricing pressure that we might be feeling there, but net-net we always look to be on the upside. As far as the ICS, you got meeting hand over we are at with the addressed last time with the proxy, yeah. That’s the only pricing pressure we really see on that and they isn’t it.

So, we remain confident and I was the briefest I believe I’ve ever been on the regulatory update just by saying that we are confident in regulatory activities. We remain confident that the need for our technology and the continued deployment of our technology in the regulatory front will enable us to successfully manage going forward, by providing additional services and new revenue, and put us in a net revenue gain position from the regulatory activities, while simultaneously providing both investors and issuers higher level of services with that technology. And for the issue is who pay the bill, a lower cost through the reduction of printing and postage. So, really one of those win, win, win scenarios. As it relates to the other ICS activities, we are feeling very good, that business like all of our businesses, our clients are putting pricing pressure on us, but because we have a breath of products across both segments where we really can provide services, more cost effectively with a better client experience. We are confident that we will continue to grow those sales COR under the $5 million across a 150 products and through that have incremental revenue that will add a nice contribution and enable us to continue to grow both the topline and our earnings overall. So, we’re actually feeling good about our market position. We would certainly like for this, I’ll call it headwind as it relates the financial services to subside to some degree that still hasn’t appeared to have any real momentum behind it subsiding.

Over the last 18 months, Rich, you’ve been very active on the acquisition front. What is the acquisition pipeline look like today? Should we expect them a significant pickup in activity over the next 12 to 18 months?

David, what you are seeing from day one of the spin is a disciplined process. We believe that tuck-in acquisitions where under our umbrella, of our brand, of our distribution capabilities, and of a company whose products could be used by our clients. And by being owned by Broadridge will give them added confidence to buy that product. Okay, it’s been a key criteria. We’ve got strong financial criteria, where we said we can meet that criteria we should expect a 20% internal rate of return on those transactions. So, there have been some transactions that haven’t met the COR criteria about it being worth more to us than to others, which kind of takes us out of the running. And then there has been the criteria with the pricing hasn’t been aligned we think we’ll get us the returns we need. So, I would be disappointed, if 12 months from now, I make the statement I made today, which is that we did not do any transactions over the next 12 months. But as I’ve consistently said, we will do a transaction but does not -- we do not believe meets the criteria, okay. Because the stewards of our shareholders cash, we want to hedge the debt on the returns on these transactions. And we believe that as we did in the last quarter, if we do build up some cash, buying Broadridge right now is opportunistic because of our confidence in creating value going forward. So, we are active in the market. We’ve been active in the market. We’re not going to alter from our criteria. I’d be disappointed, if we didn’t do a transaction. You shouldn’t expect anything of some material nature. I’m not anticipating that right now, I’ll never say never but you shouldn’t anticipate that and I am not anticipating that. But you should anticipate that we are looking for Matrix, NewRiver type transactions because we are very pleased with the returns of those transactions.

Quick final question for me. Why the change in non-GAAP earnings definition this quarter, what led to that thought process?

What led to that thought process is we’ve been looking at our peer groups. We’ve been talking to some of the consultants that are out there advising companies and making sure that everybody is looking that when they are talking about GAAP and non-GAAP, what type of items, all right, really don’t carry any cash along with them and that’s amortization. So, the point was we highlighted back in August that we were going to potentially go down this path and we made sure that we have talked a lot with their analyst and investors just to make sure, we’ve got some of their perspective. But again, it became one of those things to really understand by the way, now you’re going to see right out there that says there is $20 million plus in amortization around $0.11 per share and it’s something that we think we should be very much highlighting just to think about the $1.76 to $1.86 and how that moves forward without any impact of that amortization.

And David, going back to your question to may before about acquisition activity, we went down this path, because we would be very please to identify additional Matrix, NewRiver type transactions. And yet, when you look at their performance on a GAAP basis because of the amortization, it really we believe does not represent the value that we’re adding to the business with that amortization in there. Because for example, in both of those entities, right now, I am highly confident those entities are worth more post Broadridge acquiring them what we’ve done and pre what we’ve acquired and yet we’re taking charges on reducing the value on a GAAP basis.

Okay. Thank you very much.

Your next question comes from Chris Donat from Sandler O’Neill.

Hi. Good morning, everyone. Two, quick ones for me. Just looking at this stock position is down 4% and a matter of that’s quarter-on-quarter, year-on-year, but have the down 4% in the slide presentation. Just any comments there, I know that number can bounce around a little bit, but just trying to figure out there is any trend developed, it looks like there might be some deceleration are now slowing down of it?

Chris, I think you really hit the nail on the head with the last thing you said which is the bouncing around. We really continue to feel very, very good about the ICS segment overall. And we feel very, very good about the core regulatory communications activities in that. The first quarter really isn’t a good barometer. The low interest rate environment returns that the markets are provided, the opportunities going forward, where we believe that whether it be in 401(k)s or in overall investment activity, people are going to need to invest. So, our views of the ICS business going forward in its overall revenue growth capabilities remain very strong and although stock record remained at a historical low point, basically running flat. We don’t anticipate that staying there. We do anticipate at a point in time that adding additional value, even without that volume coming back with that activity coming back, all of the ranges that we foresee, because of the things we can control in ICS, we feel very good about. And I actually short-term and long-term remain very comfortable with the stock record activity and positions.

Yeah, I would just add to that piece. Chris, when I look at the business, I take both that equities line and then I go down to the mutual fund, you know what it means by the mutual fund piece, the one that was up 9% and has been for the last couple of years. Because inside that’s got the equities, it’s got ETFs, it’s got all the mutual fund semiannual. So, when you think about it, whatever kind of messiness going on, we’re going to capture it somewhere or another. And then I think it’s very important to understand that for every one point, let’s even say it stayed down at a negative 4%, which we certainly hope does not. It’s about $4.5 million to $5 million. So, I think it’s on an annualized basis. So, I think to put it in perspective, I look at the combination and then I also know even if the one stayed down, the other one’s up.

Got it. That’s helpful. I should have been paying attention to the mutual fund. So, the mutual fund also include ETFs, lump in…

Yeah.

Okay. And then just since no one has asked about event-driven, I feel like someone has to. Just any change you’ve seen in mutual fund proxy activity and also on that I assume there’s no implications to you from a Vanguard changing benchmarks on some of their funds but go to -- I might ask you in this forum?

Okay. Let’s start with overall. We did have some increased activity this first quarter. It’s way to soon to call it a trend. When we continued to do our research on fund need, have activity. The core need of reelecting directive and the core need around, if they do any M&A activity or activity that require shareholder approval, they we will need to go out and get fund approval. So we do believe that the activity will not be as high as it was in the past, because of something they restructured. But we do believe that over a period of time, it has to trend higher than what we currently are. Even though, we are not planning in this planning, or even on our planning beyond this year for that return to occur. So we’d like to think that event driven is an upside potential and where we are. And as we’ve said many times, we find it difficult to understand how it could go much lower. And this first quarter it didn’t go lower, but again, we are not planning on that being a trend. We do believe that there is going to be some activities in the marketplace, whether it would be Vanguard activities or other activities. More significant was the ETF activity as Dan just pointed out though. We do distribute information related to ETFs as well, so we like activity. We like activity because whenever there is activity, it needs to be communicated to shareholders, the SEC and an asset management division needs to look at that activity and understand what investors rights are or aren’t, what investors rights need to be protected, and so we see activity is being a good thing. We expected always the activity. Some of that will give us a slight net benefit, some of that will give us a slight net reduction. But what activity does more than that is it enables investors to diversify into more positions. And from our point of view, the more investors diversify than what we are communicating and we really, really like that.

Okay. Got it. Thank you.

(Operator Instructions) I’m showing, we have no further questions at this time. I will now the call back over to Mr. Daly.

Tunisia, thank you. Well, let me end today with, first of all, thank you for participating and Dan, David and I want to certainly share our some serious thoughts that we hope that you and yours have all been safe throughout this process here in the Northeast. And we certainly hope that we all catch a break with this Nor’easter, and that it’s at the low end of the range is that it could be at. We really do look forward to getting together on December 3rd. We made that clear decision to move it from this Thursday, because as much as, Dan, David and I love getting together, we are a little concerned that we would be asking each other questions during the Investor Luncheon and we didn’t think that that would be all that productive. So, if between now and then, you do have a question, anything comes up, please reach out to us. David is available and whenever appropriate, David will link Dan and I in. So with all that, thank you for your participation today more than ever choose to have a great day and more than ever, okay, regardless of who you for let’s get out there and vote, because we truly are blessed to have that right and privilege. And I for certain will be out there today. Thanks so much. Have a great day.

This concludes today’s Broadridge Financial Solutions, Incorporated first quarter fiscal year 2012 earnings conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.