W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE:WRB) Q2 2024 Earnings Conference Call July 22, 2024 5:00 PM ET
Company Participants
Rob Berkley - President & Chief Executive Officer
Rich Baio - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Bill Berkley - Executive Chairman
Conference Call Participants
Elyse Greenspan - Wells Fargo
Rob Cox - Goldman Sachs
Josh Shanker - Bank of America
Michael Zaremski - BMO Capital markets
Mark Hughes - Truist Securities
Ryan Tunis - Autonomous Research
Andrew Kligerman - TD Cowen
David Motemaden - Evercore ISI
Brian Meredith - UBS
Meyer Shields - KBW
Operator
Good day, and welcome to W. R. Berkley Corporation's Second Quarter 2024 Earnings Conference Call. Today's conference call is being recorded.
The speakers' remarks may contain forward-looking statements, some of which forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words, including, without limitation, believes, expects, or estimates. We caution you that such forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by us that the future plans, estimates, or expectations contemplated by us will, in fact, be achieved.
Please refer to our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2023, and our other filings made within the SEC for a description of the business environment in which we operate and the important factors that may materially affect our results. W. R. Berkley Corporation is not under any obligation and expressly disclaims any such obligation to update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
I would now like to turn the call over to Mr. Rob Berkley. Please go ahead, sir.
Rob Berkley
Krista, thank you very much. We appreciate you getting us through that marathon of a safe harbor statement. And good afternoon to all, and welcome to our Q2 call. Thank you for finding the time, and thank you for the interest in the company.
Along with me on the call, you have Bill Berkley, Executive Chair, as well as Rich Baio, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the group. We're going to follow our typical agenda where momentarily I'll be handing it over to Rich, he'll run through some highlights for you all, he'll then flip it back to me, I'll offer a few of my own observations on both the industry as well as our quarter, and then we'll be pleased to open it up for Q&A.