Sprott Inc. (NYSE:SII) Q2 2022 Earnings Conference Call August 2, 2022 10:00 AM ET
Company Participants
Whitney George - Chief Executive Officer
Kevin Hibbert - Chief Financial Officer
John Ciampaglia - Chief Executive Officer of Sprott Asset Management
Conference Call Participants
Graham Ryding - TD
Geoffrey Kwan - RBC
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to Sprott Inc.'s 2022 Second Quarter Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, we will conduct a question-and-answer session. Instructions will be provided at that time for you to queue up for questions. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded today August 2, 2022.
On behalf of the speakers that follow, listeners are cautioned that today's presentation and responses to questions may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Canadian provincial securities law.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. Certain material factors or assumptions are implied in making forward-looking statements and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. For additional information about factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from expectations and about material factors or assumptions applied in making forward-looking statements, please consult the MD&A for the quarter and Sprott's other filings with the Canadian and US securities regulators.
I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Whitney George. Please go ahead, Mr. George.
Whitney George
Good morning, everybody. Thank you for joining us today. On the call with me today is our CFO, Kevin Hibbert; and John Ciampaglia, our CEO of Sprott Asset Management our largest business unit. Our second -- our 2022 second quarter results were released this morning and are available on our website, where you can also find the financial statements and MD&A.
I'd like to start on slide four this morning. We delivered strong second quarter operating results despite a very challenging market, which everybody is well aware of. We've continued to build scale in our ETF business. We completed the acquisition of URNM in the second quarter. And this morning we announced the launch of Sprott ESG Gold Fund, a new and very innovative ETF that I'm sure John will tell you all about in a bit.
We continue to strengthen our management team with the notable addition of Steven Schoffstall, who is now Director, ETF Product Management. He is an extremely experienced ETF executive with many years of service at much larger competitors.