Peter deSilva
Analyst · Merrill Lynch. Please go ahead
Thank you, Mike and good morning. Let me begin with the institutional investment management segment, which is comprised of Scout’s investments equity and fixed income mutual funds and separately managed investment accounts. Details on this segment begin on Slide 23. For the second quarter, Scout’s net income was $5.6 million a decrease of $2.9 million compared to the second quarter of 2014. Revenue for the segment declined $8.3 million due to net outflows primarily in the international fund and the resulting shift in assets under management mix. As Mariner mentioned the revenue reduction was partially offset by an expense decrease in the segment of $3.8 million driven largely by lower processing fees due to lower AUM and equity mutual funds and a $605,000 reduction in contingent liability expense related to the Reams Asset Management earn out. Despite the revenue reduction this quarter the business maintained a pretax profit margin of 28.8%. As showed on Slide 24 assets under management stood at $30 billion on June 30, 2015, which is a decrease of 7.3% compared to assets under management a year ago. You will see a breakdown of our assets on that slide, which as of June 30 were 29% equity and 71% fixed income compared to a 45% and 55% equity fixed income mix at June 30, 2014. For the past several quarters we have reported net outflows from the Scout equity funds driven by significant underperformance from the Scout international fund particularly in 2013. As of June 30, 2015 assets and Scout equity strategies decreased $733.1 million compared to March 31, 2015 driven primarily by net equity outflows of $682.1 million. Page 25 of the supporting materials shows the various components of this change by both net flows and market impacts. Assets under management in Scout’s fixed income strategies increased to $165.4 million on a linked-quarter basis. Moving by net inflows of $262.6 million partially offset by negative market impact. Again the detailed drivers of the change in AUM are shown on Page 25. Well, we can’t predict when revenues in Scout Investments will return to and hopefully surpass recent levels. We would expect to see the following steps in that process. First, improved investment performance versus both benchmarks and peers, and second better performance should positively impact net flows and of course third as a result revenues will increase over time. It is important to note that this sequence will be impacted by the timing of inflows as average assets under management drive revenues. Overall, we remain enthusiastic about Scout despite the near-term challenges facing the business. We continue to invest in the platform and have launched six new funds in the past five years. Two of those, the emerging markets and low duration bond funds are nearing the three-year mark and as a result are expected to become more salable in the marketplace. Additionally, the newer equity opportunity fund has experienced strong absolute performance. Scout continues to be important part of our diversified long-term strategy going forward. Next, I will discuss the payment solution segment. Turn now to Slide 27, net income was $6.1 million for the second quarter and the pretax profit margin was 22%. Revenue drivers in this segment include credit and debit card purchase volume and the related interchange revenue. Slide 28, shows the components of the $2.3 billion second quarter purchase volume that generated $19.6 million in interchange revenue. 20% of that revenue is attributable to healthcare card payments. It’s important to note that healthcare interchange is a net revenue number, reflecting the various sharing arrangements between our business and third-party administrators we work with to distribute our product. Within healthcare’s $1.4 billion of purchase volume $473 million is attributable to healthcare virtual cards of single-use payment mechanism used to pay medical providers. As you can see on the next slide, this product continues to represent approximately a third of healthcare related purchase volume. Turning to Slide 30, you can see the healthcare services generate nearly $1.2 billion in total deposits and assets, which is the portion of deposit accounts swept into investment account. HSA deposits as of June 30, 2015 increased 41.8% to $1.1 billion compared to a year ago. HSA investment assets increased 58% and are now nearing the $100 million mark. The number of HAS accounts reached 621,000 were nearly 35% year-over-year growth rate. Flexible pending arrangement benefit cards $3.6 million issued compared to $3.2 million just a years ago. The final segment I’ll discuss today is our asset servicing segment, comprised of UMB fund services which ended the second quarter with $203.1 billion in total assets under administration. Net income for this segment decreased $672,000 to $3.1 million for the second quarter of 2015 compared to the same quarter in 2014 and its pretax profit margin was 16.8%. This reduction was driven largely by increase salary and benefit expense related to staffing for new funds added during the last 12 months. The fundamental drivers of the asset servicing segment remain sound. Pages 31 and 32 of the supporting materials show metric with some of our various products within UMB fund services. Running out few highlights over the past 12 months fund services added 12 net new alternative investment funds an increased assets under administration in that category by 18.3%. Additionally, 52 new funds were added to our transfer agent book-of-business. With that, I’ll conclude our prepared remarks and turn it back over to the operator who will open up the lines for your question.