Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE:BBDC) Q2 2023 Earnings Conference Call August 10, 2023 9:00 AM ET

Company Participants

Jeff Chillag - Head of Investor Relations

Eric Lloyd - Executive Chairman & CEO

Ian Fowler - President

Elizabeth Murray - CFO, COO & Controller

Bryan High - Head of Capital Solutions and Co-Portfolio Manager

Conference Call Participants

Kyle Joseph - Jefferies

Finian O'Shea - Wells Fargo

Robert Dodd - Raymond James

Casey Alexander - Compass Point

David Miyazaki - Confluence Investment Management

Operator

At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Barings BDC Inc. Conference Call for the Quarter ended June 30th, 2023. All participants are in a listen-only mode. A question-and-answer session will follow the company's formal remarks. [Operator Instructions] Today's call is being recorded and a replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the call on the company's website at www.baringsbdc.com under the Investor Relations section of the website.

At this time, I’ll now turn the call over to Jeff Chillag, Head of Investor Relations for Barings BDC. Please proceed.

Jeff Chillag

Thank you, operator and good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us on the call. Please note that this call may contain forward-looking statements that include statements regarding the company's goals, beliefs, strategies, future operating results and cash flows. Although the company believes these statements are reasonable, actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.

These statements are based on various underlying assumptions and are subject to numerous uncertainties and risks, including those disclosed under the sections titled Risk Factors and forward-looking statements in the company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30th, 2023 is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Barings BDC undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements unless required by law.

I’ll now turn the call over to Eric Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer of Barings BDC.

Eric Lloyd

Thanks, Jeff. Good morning, everyone. I also want to apologize if you hear some background noise. We're having quite the thunderstorm here in Charlotte, North Carolina. So if you hear some thunder and stuff in the background, apologize for any of that noise, but obviously not anything we can do about it. I appreciate everybody joining them. Please note that throughout today's call, we'll be referring to our second quarter 2023 earnings presentation that is posted on the Investor Relations section of our website. On the call today I'm joined by Barings’s Co-Head of Global Private Finance and President of Barings BDC, Ian Fowler; Barings Head of Capital Solutions and Co-Portfolio Manager of the BDC, Bryan High; and that’s thunder and lightning I was talking about. And the BDC's Chief Financial Officer, Elizabeth Murray.