Kemper Corporation (NYSE:KMPR) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call May 8, 2023 5:00 PM ET

Company Participants

Karen Guerra - Vice President, Investor Relations

Joe Lacher - President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Jim McKinney - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Matt Hunton - Executive Vice President and President, Kemper Auto

Duane Sanders - Executive Vice President and President, P&C

John Boschelli - Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer

Conference Call Participants

Matt Carletti - JMP

Greg Peters - Raymond James

Brian Meredith - UBS

Paul Newsome - Piper Sandler

Operator

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Kemper’s First Quarter 2023 Earnings Conference Call. My name is Jason and I will be the coordinator today. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded for replay purposes. I would now like to introduce your host for today’s conference call, Karen Guerra, Kemper’s Vice President of Investor Relations. Ms. Guerra, you may begin.

Karen Guerra

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to Kemper’s discussion of our first quarter 2023 results. This afternoon, you will hear from Joe Lacher, Kemper’s President and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman; Jim McKinney, Kemper’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Matt Hunton, Kemper’s Executive Vice President and President of Kemper Auto. We will make a few opening remarks to provide context around our first quarter results, followed by a Q&A session. During the interactive portion of our call, our presenters will be joined by Duane Sanders, Kemper’s Executive Vice President and President of the P&C division; John Boschelli, Kemper’s Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer.

After the markets closed today, we issued our earnings release and published our earnings presentation, financial supplement and Form 10-Q. You can find these documents on the Investors section of our website, kemper.com. Our discussion today may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

These statements include, but are not limited to, the company’s outlook and its future results of operations and financial conditions. Our actual future results and financial condition may differ materially from these statements. These statements may also be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. For information on additional risks that may impact these forward-looking statements, please refer to our 2022 Form 10-K as well as our first quarter earnings release.

This afternoon’s discussion also includes non-GAAP financial measures we believe are meaningful to investors. In our financial supplement, earnings presentation and earnings release, we defined and reconciled all non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP, where required in accordance with the SEC rules. You can find each of these documents on the Investor Relations section of our website, kemper.com. All comparative references will be to the corresponding 2022 period unless otherwise stated.