Earnings Call Excerpt
Delphi Financial Group Inc. (DFG)
Q1 2008 Earnings Call
April 23, 2008 11:00 am ET
Executives
Robert Rosenkranz - Chairman of the Board and CEO
Bernie Kilkelly - Vice President of Investor Relation
Donald A. Sherman - President and Chief Operating Officer
Robert Smith - Executive Vice President
Analysts
Beth Malone - KeyBanc
Michael Grasher - Piper Jaffray
Eric Berg - Lehman Brothers
Jukka Lipponen - KBW
Leo Harman - FMA
Mark Finkelstein - FPK
Randy Binner - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey
Presentation
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Delphi Financial Group First Quarter Earnings. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. (Operator Instruction). As a reminder this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Robert Rosenkranz. Please, go ahead.
Robert Rosenkranz – Chairman of the Board and CEO
Welcome to Delphi Financial's first quarter 2008 conference call. Our earnings release was distributed last evening and posted on the company's website along with our first quarter financial supplement. This call is also being broadcast live on our website at www.DelphiFin.com.
Participating in the call this morning with me are Don Sherman, Delphi’s President and Chief Operating Officer; Bob Smith, Executive Vice President; Anita Savage, Vice President of Finance; Bernie Kilkelly, Vice President of Investor Relations, and our colleagues at Reliance Standard Life, Safety National and Matrix.
Bernie will now read Safe Harbor Statement.
Bernie Kilkelly – Vice President of Investor Relation
Thanks Bob and good morning everyone. For those listening to a replay of this call, it is being held on April 23, 2008. It contained time sensitive information that is current only as of this date.
Statements made in this call relating to the future operations, performance, goals and expectations of the company as opposed to historical facts are forward-looking statements under the Federal securities laws. These statements are based on assumptions and estimates by the Company that are subject to various uncertainties and contingencies.
Discussions of these risk factors can be found in our first quarter earnings release yesterday and our 2007 Form 10-K. These factors could cause the company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made during this call and should be considered carefully. The company specifically disclaims any duty to update forward-looking statements made in this call.
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