Thank you all for holding and welcome to the Westwood Holdings Group fourth quarter 2008 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I would now like to turn the call over to your host for today’s call, Sylvia Fry, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer. Ms. Fry, your line is now open.

Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to our fourth quarter 2008 earnings conference call. I’d like to begin by reading our forward-looking statements disclaimer. The following discussion will include forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning the factors that cause them to differ is included in our press release issued earlier today as well as in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to publically update or revise any forward-looking statements whether it is a result of new information, all future events or otherwise. Your call should not suffice undue reliance on forward-looking statements. In addition, with accordance to the SEC rules concerning non-GAAP financial measures, the reconciliation of our cash earnings, cash earnings per share and cash expenses to the most comparable GAAP measures is included at the end of our press release issued earlier today. On the call today, we will have Brian Casey, our President and Chief Executive Officer and Bill Hardcastle, our Chief Financial Officer. I will now turn the call over to Brian.

Thanks Sylvia, and thanks to all of you for taking time out of your day to listen to our earnings call. While 2008 was certainly a challenging year for all market participants, our relative performance held up well against market indices. Most of our products were again in the top quartile versus our peers and experienced net in-flows from new and existing customers. Institutional activity was very strong during the year and included wins across all major product lines. We were especially pleased to introduce sub-advisory mandates with four major firms. In lieu of creating our own additional commission based sales force, we made the decision years ago to invest in the people and systems necessary to create high-quality product and serve our clients attentively. We tend to work closely with each of our new sub-advisory partners to make sure they have everything they need for Westwood to be well positioned within their sales organizations for fund flows when markets recover. Over time, we hope that having access to global distribution platforms will result in a significant opportunity for Westwood to grow our assets and our management within the sub-advisory channel. With regard to our own proprietary funds, the WHC funds, we were very pleased with our progress last year. We actually had net in-flows and our relative performance was better than our benchmarks in peer groups. Two of our funds, the WHC Mid-Cap Fund and the WHC Income Opportunity Fund just reached a three-year milestone and received a 5-star rating from Morningstar. It is a terrific accomplishment and I want to congratulate all of our analysts on achieving the highest level of industry recognition. I also want to give special thanks to those who work behind the scenes to allow us to have a highly successful fund in the…

Thanks, Brian. Good afternoon, everyone. We just filed our earnings release today after the market closed. In addition, we expect to file our 10-K by the end of this month. If you have any questions after reading the 10-K or any time for that matter, feel free to give me a call at the phone number listed on our website. After I review our financial highlights, I will review some slides with you that we have posted on the Investor Relations section of our website at westwoodgroup.com under the Events and Webcasts link. For the fourth quarter 2008, our total revenues were $17.6 million, a 44% increase compared to $12.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, and a 74% sequential increase compared to the third quarter 2008. For the full year 2008, our total revenues were $46.5 million, a 28% increase, compared to $36.3 million in 2007. Comparing full year 2008 revenue versus 2007, Westwood management posted a 44% increase in total advisory fees. This includes a 24% increase in asset-based fees as well as 189% increase in performance-based fees. We recorded $8.7 million in performance-based fees in 2008 reflecting investment out-performances in 2008 and 2007. The growth in asset-based advisory fees was due to higher average vendor asset management in 2008 compared to 2007. Westwood Trust produced a 7% increase in trust fees as a result of higher average fee realization. Average asset vendor management by Westwood Trust were flat year-over-year as market depreciation of assets offset in-flows from new and existing clients. GAAP operating income for the fourth quarter 2008 was $8.2 million, a 64% increase compared to $5.0 million for the fourth quarter 2007 and was $16.5 million for the full year 2008, a 35% increase compared to $12.2 million for 2007. GAAP net income for…

Thanks, Bill. Great job. Does anyone have any questions?

(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from Max Sykes. Your line is open.

Two quick questions. Going forward for this year, what do you think your appetite will be for funds? Will it be in the income, the small cap, the value and will that affect sort of the gross realization of the whole firm?

I would say that marketing activity has been strong across the board. We’ve worked really hard to stay in front of consultants over the last several years who would like to know what we do. Certainly large cap value is an area where a lot of deep value managers have struggled over the last couple of years and our returns have been pretty terrific. So I would expect to see a lot of interest in that product but our smid caps, small cap income opportunity products all have capacity. They all have excellent numbers and we would expect to see and currently have searches in all of those areas.

Just one quick follow-up. Can you talk a little bit more about the performance fees for this quarter and how we should model that going forward?

I don’t know how you model a performance fee. A performance fee is essentially a backward looking number that tells you how you have done at the end of the year so I don’t think you can really know that until December 31. The performance fee that we earned was two years worth of excess carry-forward from a large performance-based client. So I don’t know how you would want to model that.

Our next question is from Bob Mitchell. Your line is open. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: Just a couple questions. One, in terms of, you had net $2 billion in the close that you guys had. Can you qualitatively talk about in terms of what products perhaps sold the greatest in-flows? I just wanted to know, did all of your products have net in-flows or were there any of them that had net out-flows?

Amazingly, they all had net in-flows. I guess if you broke it down, large cap was a beneficiary of most of the assets but I would say that search activity was highest in smid. The smid cap numbers are exceptional and the interest level has been very high. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: In terms of the WHD fund and the flows that you saw from that, can you talk about in terms of where you are having the most success, in terms of the channels? Is it the large Schwab OneForce platforms or is it just qualitatively talking about where, is it retail-oriented, institutionally-oriented, where are you seeing the most success in the reception for your product?

Sure. It is not the Schwab OneForce or any of those programs. We started Ashares last year and unfortunately, those have to hit a three-year record as well before they start to see any real recognition within that channel. Most of the success has been institutionally. Really, it’s the good press that we’ve received throughout the year. It’s amazing how people will find you. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: In terms of, I know it’s a small item but in terms of the revenue line, Bill, the other revenue line was negative this quarter. I know it’s not a big number but I was just curious about what was going on there.

That’s primarily negative mark-to-market on investments that we have. As Brian mentioned, we have the bulk of our cash and investments is in treasury bills. However, we do have about $4 million invested in our fund which we view as C investments in those mutual funds. Obviously the difficult year in the market last year was also in a negative mark-to-market. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: Another financial question, in terms of the accounts receivable, I know you guys with smid would have jumped a little bit more than I would have anticipated. Is there anything to talk about there or is that just a timing issue?

The bulk of it would be the performance fee for 2008, about $8.6 million of that number is the performance fee. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: Okay, it was not collected.

No, it’s been collected at this point but it wasn’t December 31. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: Last quarter, you talked about the new subadvisory relationships. Of all your subadvisory relationships you have been awarded, were they all funded the third and fourth quarter? Were there any left to be funded?

Yes, we do have another one yet to be funded. Bob Mitchell – Conestoga Capital: Do you expect that to happen in the first half of this year?

Yes.

At this time, I have no more questions in queue.

Okay, if there are no more questions, once again, we appreciate your time today. Bill and I are available anytime if you want to give us a call or certainly visit our website at westwoodgroup.com where we have all of our financials and other articles of interest posted. Have a great day. Thanks.