Earnings Call Excerpt
Fifth Street Finance Corp. (FSC)
F4Q08 Earnings Call
December 10, 2008 5:00 pm ET
Executives
William Craig – Chief Financial Officer, Chief Compliance Officer
Leonard Tannenbaum – Chief Executive Officer, President
Bernard Berman – Executive Vice President, Secretary
Stacey Thorne – Vice President, Investor Relations
Analysts
Greg Mason - Stifel Nicolaus & Company, Inc.
David Chiavarini – BMO Capital Markets
Chris Harris – Wachovia
Roger Brown – Brown and Brown
Brian [Gunig] – [Sunvest]
Brian [Noveling] – DRW Investments
[Yaz] – [Hugo News]
David [Roser] – Tedco Inc.
Dr. Eugene Stricker – Fifth Avenue Capital
Ron Silverton - Asgard
John Ellis – Private Investor
Presentation
Operator
Welcome to the Fifth Street Finance Corp. fourth quarter 2008 earnings conference call. Today’s conference is being recorded. At this time I’d like to turn the conference over to Mr. William Craig, Chief Financial Officer.
William Craig
Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome everyone. This is the conference call to discuss the results for Fifth Street Finance Corp. for the year ended September 30, 2008. My name is Bill Craig and I am the CFO and CCO of Fifth Street. I have with me this afternoon Len Tannenbaum, CEO and President; Stacey Thorne, VP Investor Relations and Bernard Berman, Executive VP and Secretary.
Before I begin I would like to reiterate this call is being recorded. Replay information is included in our press release today and is posted on our website. Please note that this call is the property of Fifth Street Finance Corp. Any unauthorized rebroadcast of this call of any form is strictly prohibited.
I would also like to call your attention to the customary Safe Harbor disclosure in our press release today regarding forward-looking information. Today’s conference call includes forward-looking statements and projections and we ask that you refer to our most recent filings with the SEC for important factors that would cause actual results to differ materially from these projections. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements unless required by law.
To obtain copies of our latest SEC filings please visit our website or call Investor Relations at (914) 286-6811.
The format for today’s call is as follows: Len will provide an overview. I will summarize the financials. Len will recap and then we will open the line for Q&A. With that I’ll turn it over to Len.
Leonard Tannenbaum
Thanks Bill. Welcome everyone to our year-end conference call and thank you for participating. It has been a very volatile year but a successful one for Fifth Street Finance Corp. We were able to complete our IPO at book value and deploy the proceeds in the best market for lending in decades.
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