Rudy Sankovic
Management
Afternoon and welcome to TD Bank Group's Second Quarter 2014 Investor Presentation. My name is Rudy Sankovic. I am the Head of Investor Relations at the Bank. We will begin today's presentation with remarks from Ed Clark, the Bank's CEO and Bharat Masrani, our COO; and after which Colleen Johnson, the Bank's CFO will present our second-quarter operating results. Mark Chauvin, our Chief Risk Officer will then offer comments on credit quality after which we will entertain questions from those present in the room and prequalified analysts and investors on the phone. Also here today to answer your questions are Tim Hockey, Group Head - Canadian Banking, Auto Finance and Wealth Management; Mike Peterson, Group Head - U.S. Banking, Bob Dorrance, Group Head - Wholesale Banking; and Riaz Ahmed, Group Head - Insurance, Credit Cards and Enterprise Strategy. Riaz is also responsible for the capital and treasury activities of the bank. Please turn to Slide 2. At this time, I would like to caution our listeners that the presentation contains forward-looking statements. There are risks that actual results could differ materially from what is discussed in that certain material factors or assumptions were applied in making these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements contained in this presentation represent the views of management and are presented for the purpose of assisting the banks' shareholders and analysts in understanding the bank's financial position. Objectives and priorities and anticipated financial performance forward-looking statements may not be appropriate for other purposes. [I probably should put my glasses on.] The bank uses non-GAAP financial measures to arrive at adjusted results to assess each of its businesses and to measure overall bank performance. The bank believes that adjusted results provide readers with a better understanding of how management views the bank's performance. Ed and Bharat will be referring to adjusted results in their remarks. Additional information on items of note, the bank's reported results and factors and assumptions related to forward-looking information are all available on our Q2 2014 report to shareholders. With that, let me turn the presentation over to Ed.