Mark Casale
Analyst · Rick Shane with JPMorgan. Your line is open
That’s a good question, little reflection time from, thanks Rick. In a Halloween three years ago we went public. I would say in terms of the expectations, I think, we are right on line, I think we are pleasantly surprise with the growth in Essent RE. I think when we went public, GSE risk share had really just started. Again, I think, hats off to the GSEs for the way they have managed that process, we have obviously, given us an opportunity to participate that in Essent Re. So we are very, very pleased on that, very pleasant surprise. We talked about that on our road show is being a call option and I think that’s one has been exercise kind of very successfully. In terms of the credit we continue to be, I don’t want to say surprise there, I think, we are, I think, we knew the credit was going to potentially be good given the credit kind of profile on the underwriting characteristics that’s performed really according to expectations and I would say we are very pleased with kind of our market presence. We have always kind of really focused on working with our customers and helping them do well, and let the results speak for themselves. So we haven’t really try to buy or rent share, is I would like to call it, on the singles business, because that kind of, I can kind of go up and down and I think that consistency, it bodes well for us, it bode well for us within investors, with the rating agencies, with our employees, and more importantly, with our customers. They know where we stand and we are not kind of -- I had a client told me recently that we have been telling them the same story since we started the company and I first started calling on them like seven years ago, and I think, we take a lot of pride in that and the consistency. Our turnover rate, I think, our retention rate for employees is something along the lines of 98%. I think, we take a lot of pride in that. We have excellent employee base. I would say, the employees to-date continue to empress us and I think just building that culture. I think it’s bodes well for the future, we’ve said today everything we do today will show off in results in 12 months to 18 months. So we are very pleased with our results today. But once we hang up the phone, we are out trying to build the business for the longer terms. So good, we’ve reflect on, I think, we are very fortunate, and again, given the current environment, I think, we will continue to work with our customers and hopefully provide them value, which will allow us them to provide value to our shareholders.