TSE:ONEX Onex Q4 2025 Earnings Report C$116.40 +2.38 (+2.09%) As of 04:00 PM Eastern ProfileEarnings HistoryForecast Onex EPS ResultsActual EPSC$3.49Consensus EPS N/ABeat/MissN/AOne Year Ago EPSN/AOnex Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$307.97 millionExpected RevenueN/ABeat/MissN/AYoY Revenue GrowthN/AOnex Announcement DetailsQuarterQ4 2025Date2/20/2026TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, February 20, 2026Conference Call Time11:00AM ETConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress ReleaseEarnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by Onex Q4 2025 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrFebruary 20, 2026 ShareLink copied to clipboard.Key Takeaways Positive Sentiment: Convex acquisition: Onex closed the $7 billion Convex deal (Onex ~63%, AIG ~35%) with management rolling ~ $500M, and Convex reported 2025 net income of $711 million (Onex share ~ $423M), lifting tangible book to $3.8B and reducing Onex's effective acquisition multiple to ~1.8x TBV. Positive Sentiment: Strong underlying performance and scale opportunity at Convex: Convex grew gross premium written to $5.9B (+14% y/y) with an 89% combined ratio (third straight year <90%) and still only ~2% market penetration, while management expects to drive further earnings growth via operating leverage, asset/yield improvements and underwriting expansion. Positive Sentiment: Asset-management and FRE momentum: Fee-generating AUM rose to nearly $44B (+24% y/y), the credit team priced 28 CLOs raising >$6B of new AUM, credit run-rate FRE reached ~$60M, and management projects firm-wide FRE exiting 2026 at more than double the prior $17M run rate (guidance implies exiting >~$35M run rate while conservatively excluding Convex and only counting one-third of AIG commitments). Positive Sentiment: Capital recycling and realizations: Private equity platforms realized ~$8B in 2025 (driving >$800M to Onex), Onex Partners distributions were $7.7B, and the planned MACV should deliver ~ $310M and convert balance-sheet capital into fee- and carry-generating AUM. Positive Sentiment: Risk and liquidity posture: Onex says only ~4% of investing capital is in pure software (14% in tech-enabled), credit portfolios are underweight software/AI risk, and post-close liquidity (~$400M cash + $500M undrawn NAV revolver = ~$900M) plus modest unfunded PE commitments supports near-term funding needs. AI Generated. May Contain Errors.Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallOnex Q4 202500:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2xTranscript SectionsPresentationParticipantsPresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to Onex Q4 and full year 2025 Conference Call and webcast. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session with pre-qualified analysts. At that time, if you have a question, please press star one one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Jill Homenuk, Managing Director, Shareholder Relations and Communications at Onex. Please go ahead. Jill HomenukManaging Director, Shareholder Relations and Communications at Onex00:00:32Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us. We're broadcasting this call on our website. Hosting the call today are Bobby Le Blanc, Onex's Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Govan, our Chief Financial Officer. Earlier this morning, we issued our Q4 and full year 2025 press release, MD&A, and consolidated financial statements, which are available on the shareholder section of our website and have also been filed on SEDAR. A supplemental information package is also available on our website. As a reminder, all references to dollar amounts on this call are in U.S., unless otherwise stated. I must also point everyone to our webcast presentation for our usual disclaimer and cautionary factors relating to any forward-looking statements contained in today's presentation and remarks. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Bobby. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:01:28Good morning, everyone. In 2025, Onex delivered strong results and made meaningful progress on our business and capital allocation objectives to set the stage for accelerated value creation and earnings growth going forward. Most notably, our recently completed acquisition of Convex and our new strategic relationship with AIG has significantly enhanced our growth prospects and earnings outlook. Across Onex, we are entering 2026 with momentum and confidence. We're able to do almost 7 years of due diligence on Convex, given it was an Onex Partners V portfolio company. This is exactly the type of informational advantage that we look for as investors. Convex is expected to be Onex's largest contributor to value creation going forward, and the accelerated closing reflected a strong commitment and alignment across Convex, AIG, and Onex to complete the transaction on an expedited basis. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:02:44As a reminder, the transaction valued Convex at $7 billion, with Onex and AIG owning approximately 63% and 35%, respectively. In addition, the Convex management team demonstrated their alignment and conviction by rolling approximately $500 million of equity and accrued incentives, which is a major vote of confidence in our partnership and go-forward strategy. This morning, we released our year-end financial information for Convex. In 2025, the team delivered another outstanding year, continuing to demonstrate their ability to deliver industry-leading growth and profitability. You will find more information in our Q4 supplemental information package, but here are some of the highlights. For the year, Convex delivered $711 million in net income and an overall return on equity of 20%. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:03:51Net income increased 25% versus the $566 million Q3 latest twelve months figure we announced at the time of the acquisition and grew 40% from the $506 million delivered in 2024. This 2025 net income figure equates to $423 million for Onex, based upon our 63% ownership position, and is updated for Convex's pro forma interest cost on the $600 million of debt raised as part of the transaction. The team achieved $5.9 billion of gross premium written in 2025, growing 14% year-over-year. Convex's ability to scale to this level of gross premium written in less than seven years demonstrates the impressive business the Convex team has built and the value they provide to their customers. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:04:50Despite the significant growth, Convex has still only captured about 2% of its addressable market, which highlights the significant opportunity we and management continue to see for the business. Convex also delivered consistent and strong underwriting performance in 2025, with an 89% combined ratio, the third consecutive year of combined ratios under 90%. Management expects to continue growing earnings through-cycle by utilizing several structural levers, including, one, capturing further operating leverage as Convex continues to scale into its expense base. Two, growth and asset leverage. Three, growth and net underwriting profitability. And lastly, yield improvement on Convex's growing investment portfolio. This strong financial performance increased Convex's tangible book value to $3.8 billion at year-end, resulting in a reduction of Onex's effective acquisition multiple to 1.8x tangible book value and 10x 2025 net income. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:06:10In our supplemental information package, we outline more information, including Convex's structural competitive advantages, how management plans to continue to grow through-cycle, and how Convex should deliver significant value to Onex shareholders. When we announced the transaction, one of our commitments to shareholders was to ensure you receive transparency on our investment in Convex, so you can value it appropriately. Next month, in follow-up to today's earnings update, we plan to publish complete financial information for Convex, similar to the tables we provided at the time of our Q3 announcement. The addition of Convex as a core Onex platform, alongside private equity and credit, will play a pivotal role in our ongoing transition, where we continue to prioritize consistently growing net income and free cash flow to help drive overall enterprise value. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:07:11Our future capital allocation initiatives will align with this strategy, focusing on direct investments with strong risk-adjusted returns, low leverage, and longer hold periods in sectors where we have a right to win. While we continue to support our private equity and credit strategies to ensure continued alignment with our LPs and co-investors by participating in each fund up to a maximum of 10%, this capital-lighter model will enable a higher proportion of third-party capital in our funds. This, in turn, will contribute to ongoing growth in fee-generating AUM, fee-related earnings, and carried interest. Early in 2025, both of our private equity platforms, Onex Partners and ONCAP, completed successful fundraises. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:08:06Throughout the year, both made progress in continuing to return capital to their limited partners and co-investors, a total of $8 billion in realizations, and in securing new investment opportunities with high conviction value creation plans. Onex Partners had an active and successful year and has extended the momentum into 2026. OP announced $7.7 billion in total distributions in 2025, including $4.3 billion to its co-investors. Since 2024, OP has returned $10 billion of capital across 8 realizations and completed 6 new investments totaling $2 billion. Recently, OP entered into an agreement to create a $1.5 billion multi-asset continuation vehicle with leading global secondary funds and sovereign investors. The transaction is expected to close this quarter and deliver proceeds of approximately $310 million to Onex. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:09:15Importantly, we'll also bring DPI for Onex Partners V to 0.8, positioning it very favorably relative to other funds of this vintage. As you all know, there has recently been a lot of news around software and AI disruption. Looking at the percentage of our investing capital in technology-enabled businesses, we feel comfortable with our relative exposure and the embedded protections of our company's business models and competitive environments. Only 4% of Onex's total investing capital is tied directly to pure vertical software businesses. Looking at it from the broadest perspective, only 14% of Onex's total investing capital is invested in tech-enabled firms. All these businesses have proprietary data and significant competitive moats, sustained by regulatory barriers and B2B workflows occurring inside their systems. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:10:21Across our operating companies, we are not seeing any meaningful evidence of disruption, but rather, they're continuously improving their product value proposition through the adoption of AI and other data analytic tools. Turning to ONCAP, the team returned $270 million to investors, including Onex, in 2025, which was primarily driven by the partial sale of Precision Concepts. ONCAP also recently completed its leadership succession process, which resulted in two of its most proven leaders, Adam Shantz and Stephen Marshall, becoming co-heads of the platform. Michael Lay has transitioned into the role of ONCAP Executive Chair. Congratulations to each of them on this milestone, which ensures long-term leadership continuity for ONCAP. Our credit team had another outstanding year. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:11:20Within structured credit, where we are recognized as a global leader, we priced 28 CLOs across the U.S. and Europe, raising more than $6 billion of new fee-generating AUM and extending another $6 billion. Chris will get into more detail on fee-related earnings, but it's worth noting that the team's ability to increase fee-generating AUM has enabled them to exceed our Investor Day run rate FRE expectations. We have a reputation for delivering strong performance within our CLOs relative to peer firms through a proactive and diligent approach to portfolio management. By heavily investing in our underwriting processes and implementing state-of-the-art risk management tools and processes,... we were able to navigate the spread-challenged credit landscape and avoid involvement in some of the high-profile casualties like First Brands and Saks Global that impacted the broader credit market last year. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:12:27The credit team, to its credit, is also underweight software and AI risk credits across its portfolio. Across Onex, our success wouldn't be possible without the commitment and dedication of the people who make up the organization. I want to thank them for all they do and also for making Onex a great place to come to work every day. We have strong conviction in Onex's intrinsic value and are intensifying our efforts to have that value reflected in our stock price. In the supplemental information package, we've included how management views Onex's intrinsic value. At this stage of our capital allocation transition, we believe it is appropriate to utilize a sum of the parts framework. There are currently three distinct value drivers for shareholders: Convex, our asset management business, and our remaining balance sheet investments. The slide on the screen is a really important one to focus on. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:13:38As you can see, when utilizing first the acquisition for Convex, which we believe is conservative, given the strong recent performance, and then applying a 15x multiple to pro forma 2026 year-end run rate fee-related earnings, and then finally, looking at the value of our remaining investing capital at the Q4 valuation, we believe intrinsic value is $174. Importantly, our current estimate does not include the value we expect to generate for shareholders over time from reorienting realized proceeds from our private equity investments into one or two direct balance sheet investments similar to Convex, that ideally have a good strategic fit with Convex and our asset management business. These investments will use lower leverage and have attractive risk-adjusted return profiles to drive growth and enterprise value for Onex shareholders. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:14:48We will also provide significant transparency and financial KPIs similar to Convex on each investment to support our shareholders in measuring our performance. Having our intrinsic value properly reflected in our share price is a top priority, and we are committed to delivering the earnings growth, disciplined execution, and transparency to make this happen. I want to thank our shareholders for their ongoing support over the past year and for their confidence as we move forward. The pieces are in place for a solid year, and our team is laser-focused on driving enterprise and shareholder value. I'll now turn the call over to Chris. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:15:36Thanks, Bobby, and good morning, everyone. While most of my remarks will focus on our results for the quarter, I will also take some time to provide an update following the completion of the Convex acquisition. So let's start with our investing segment. Onex ended the year with investing capital per share of $124.70, a return of 3% in the quarter and 10% for the year. The five-year CAGR on investing capital per share is now 11%. Investing gains in the quarter were driven by strong returns from Onex Partners V and Onex Partners Opportunities of 4% and 7% respectively, and a 6% return across the ONCAP portfolio. Our credit investments were essentially flat in Q4, driven by spread compression on the CLOs' underlying portfolio of loans. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:16:28With spreads on the CLO's debt fixed in the short term, spread compression in the portfolio results in a reduction in the mark-to-market value of our CLO equity. However, it's important to note that our CLO investments continue to offer an attractive go-forward return and cash distribution profile. Moreover, we expect any mismatch in spreads to be eliminated by refinancing the CLO liabilities as they come out of their no-call period, which is typically one or two years. As Bobby discussed, 2025 was a strong year of private equity realizations for us, with the $8 billion of realizations across the platforms delivering over $800 million to Onex Corporation. Realizations in the Q4 included Onex Partners V sales of 54% of OneDigital and 25% of WestJet. In addition, Onex Corporation completed its final realization of Ryan Specialty, netting just over $200 million. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:17:28In total, the Ryan Specialty investment generated aggregate proceeds of $1.2 billion for Onex Corp over almost eight years, a multiple of capital of 3.8x and a 49% IRR. On the new investment front, activity in the Q4 included the acquisition of Integrated Specialty Coverages by Onex Partners Opportunities and ONCAP V's investment in CSN Collision. Onex Partners Opportunities also agreed to invest in its fourth portfolio company, a transaction that is expected to close later this quarter. On the asset management side of the business, Onex ended the quarter with nearly $44 billion of fee-generating AUM, an increase of 24% during the year.... The increase primarily reflects the issuance of new CLOs, commitments made to ONCAP V and Onex Partners Opportunities, and net write-ups in the PE portfolio. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:18:25The asset management segment generated earnings of $49 million in Q4, of which $2 million was fee-related earnings from our PE and credit platforms. After factoring in the costs associated with managing Onex Corporation's capital and maintaining the public company, firm-wide FRE was a loss of $4 million for the quarter and $3 million for the year. Looking forward, credit continues its strong FRE trajectory, ending 2025 with run rate FRE of $60 million. As Bobby noted, this is ahead of our 2023 Investor Day target. Consistent with the Q3 earnings call commentary, we ended the year with firm-wide run rate FRE of $17 million, which includes the benefit of the multi-asset continuation vehicle, or MACV, that Bobby mentioned. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:19:16At the time of the Q3 call, we expected the MACV to be signed up for the year-end, so its impact was included in the $17 million forecast. I should also note that since management fees on the MACV won't start accruing until the transaction closes later this quarter, we don't expect our quarterly FRE to reflect the $17 million annual run rate until Q2. With that in mind, we're projecting firm-wide FRE for 2026 in the low- to mid-$20 million range. More importantly, we expect to exit 2026 with firm-wide run rate FRE that is more than twice the $17 million from the start of the year. I think it's important to note, our assumptions around new fee-generating AUM in 2026 include only about one-third of AIG's $2 billion of expected commitments and no additional allocations from Convex. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:20:19As an aside, for those of you wondering about the MACV economics, from an investing capital perspective, Onex's expected proceeds from the sale represent pricing that is about 98% of where we had those investments marked at Q4. However, the MACV has a couple of other benefits. It converts Onex's capital into fee and carry generating AUM, and it extends the life of management fees and carry on third-party capital. So when we add the present value of these benefits to the sales proceeds, we think of the value to Onex being well above the Q4 marks. Now, as alluded to at the outset, I think it would be helpful for me to add some color around the final funding of the Convex transaction, as well as Onex's go-forward liquidity position. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:21:11At closing, Onex drew $700 million under a NAV loan facility, $300 million less than originally contemplated in a $1 billion draw. The reduced draw was possible due to incremental realizations and distributions from our private equity platforms. Following the close of the transaction, Onex retained approximately $400 million of cash and near cash and maintained access to $500 million of undrawn funds on the revolving portion of the NAV loan, providing total liquidity of approximately $900 million. As a reminder, Onex has almost $5 billion of PE investments relative to $735 million of unfunded commitments, of which only $330 million are to fund in their commitment period. So we're quite comfortable that this liquidity is sufficient to fund our capital needs, and we expect significant net PE realizations over the next few years. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:22:17With this being my final earnings call as CFO, I want to close by thanking all of my colleagues at Onex who have supported me over the last 11 years, including, of course, Bobby. Most importantly, thank you, Gerry, for building this wonderful company and giving me the opportunity to serve as its CFO. Finally, a warm welcome to Megan McClellan, Onex's next CFO. I look forward to supporting her during the transition. That concludes the prepared remarks. We'll now be happy to take any questions. Operator00:22:51Certainly. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have a question at this time, please press star one one on your telephone. If your question has been answered and you'd like to remove yourself from the queue, simply press star one one again. One moment for our first question. Our first question comes from the line of Graham Ryding from TD Securities. Your question, please. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:23:13Hi, good morning. There's, I appreciate the disclosure you provided on Convex. And I think you flagged some areas in your—in the presentation, slide 14, where you think could potentially offset what looks like it might be a softening or is a softening pricing environment. What areas do you think in particular are going to have the most impact here, and, and are you expecting Convex to continue to generate earnings growth in what might be sort of a, a later stage in the cycle? Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:23:42Yeah. Hi, Graham, it's Bobby. Like, we're viewing 2026 as a sort of -4%-ish rate environment for property and casualty. But just given where Convex is in its evolution, you know, we believe that those levers that we have to pull would more than offset that type of rate pressure. Those things include continuing to gain market share. Importantly, we are nowhere near growing into our expense base, so that operating leverage is going to continue as we continue to grow the top line. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:24:22And on the left side of the balance sheet, we've really never done anything to sort of optimize yield enhancement, if you will. I think there's a very good opportunity there without taking, you know, much incremental risk, by the way, including using some of the Onex products for, you know, a small portion of their balance sheet. And finally, you know, the way it works in insurance, as you grow into scale, you also grow into your asset leverage. And our asset leverage has meaningful upside from this point forward. So I feel quite good, you know, absent very strange catastrophic events, that you're gonna continue to see earnings growth in 2026 from Convex. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:25:06Okay, great. And, on the the FRE outlook, Chris, that you provided, appreciate the sort of ladder that you provided to sort of get you to $35 million as a run rate. Is that—should we interpret that as sort of Q4, you hit that, $35 million, like Q4 2026? And, did you say that one third of the $2 billion from AIG is part of that sort of exit run rate? Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:25:40Yeah, So I'll take a second part first. That, that's correct. Our, our budget, I'll call it, has about one third of that capital being allocated, this year. And so it would be fully in the year-end run rate, but obviously doesn't, fully impact in-year, revenues and profitability. In, in terms of when we expect to hit that 35, yeah, we're gonna hit it at year-end. But that, again, given, you know, it's a run rate, and so you have capital being raised constantly throughout the year, you know, you sort of we take the benefit of that all at year-end on an annualized basis. But y- you know, some of that revenue won't be fully impacting Q4. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:26:22So you really don't expect—we don't expect to hit our run rate in terms of in-quarter earnings until the following quarter. So you'd expect something close to a quarter of that in Q1 2027. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:26:38Understood. Thank you. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:26:39Yeah. And one other thing, Grant, that those numbers only are include a third of AIG, but they also include no dollars coming in from Convex, which I think is a very conservative assumption. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:26:54Understood. Operator00:26:57Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Bart Jurczyk from RBC Capital Markets. Your question, please. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:27:05Great. Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Wanted to ask around the software tech exposure. So thanks for giving that to us, Bobby. 4% invested capital. Just to confirm, is that also 4% of AUM? And could you split that between the exposure within private equity and private credit? Thanks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:27:25Yeah, so that is our overall NAV exposure to software is 4% and things that are on our balance sheet. Okay, so for that, it is mostly private equity and particularly two software companies that we have, PowerSchool and Unanet. So we are very underweight on the private equity side, software. On the credit side, to their, to... And I said credit twice on the- when I did the script, and I'll say it again, like they are meaningfully underweight software by more than 200 basis points against, you know, their concepts, which is great. And I'd be remiss just not to give that team a lot of credit, not only for being underweight software and AI risk-type loans, but they're meaningfully underweight in direct lending. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:28:18I'm sure you're watching and hearing all of the news around direct lending, particularly in the real retail front right now. And they were not in any of the major credits of Tricor, First Brands and Saks. Like, that team has done a very good job of... We overinvested in analysts, right? And we heavily invested in state-of-the-art risk management tools. But I also give credit just to the judgment and seeing where the puck was going, so to speak, and I'm really proud of, you know, all of our investment teams in terms of where we sit on a relative basis and an absolute basis with exposure to software. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:28:55Yeah, and Bart, just for a second, just on your total AUM question and the 4%, I don't have an exact number, but I know that the total private equity AUM, the exposure would be less than that 4%. We're a little overweight just in terms of allocations, and commitments to funds, compared to the platform as a whole. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:29:15Okay, great. Thank you. That's very helpful. And then just on the FRE guide, so thanks for unpacking that for us, Chris. And wondering, could you give us kind of the latest on fundraising, you know, OP VI? I think that fund has now been launched in Q1, if I'm not mistaken, but maybe just your latest thoughts, sizing, timing of that fund. Thanks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:29:39Yeah, I wouldn't call it officially launched, but we're certainly in the process of gearing up for fundraising, like, real-time. We're not gonna get into today's size and timing, but, you know, certainly we'd be looking to have a first close, at some point, in 2026. But there's really not much more we can say on that point. Ronnie's still in the market with his OSCO Fund. You know, we expect that to close sometime in the next quarter or two. I don't see ONCAP in market, in 2026, just given they're about halfway through on their investment period in their current fund. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:30:19As for the rest of our credit products, we're always in market, you know, vis-à -vis trying to sell every day because those are not traditional, you know, fund structured products or things that our LPs and other people can invest in every day. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:30:35Okay, great. And then just one more, if I may. You made an interesting point around, Convex coming into Onex, and so maybe just help us understand that, like, the duration of Convex's liabilities, what assets would they lend themselves to, to be managed by Onex? Like, how would that matching work? Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:30:54Yeah, so like, unlike life insurance, property casualty insurance has less asset leverage, if you will- Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:31:02Right. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:31:02which is why you see so many people going after these annuity blocks, which we looked at, by the way, and never really could get comfortable with the pricing. And we knew this asset so much better. It's just an easier place for us to begin. But it depends on the person investing the dollars into the funds. People, if insurance companies, which are firms, obviously, that we're trying to do business with outside of even AIG and Convex. For those that are overcapitalized, that can afford Risk-Based Capital charges, they may be more evenly split between PE and credit. But the riskier the asset, the higher the capital charge for an insurance company when they invest in alternative asset management. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:31:49So most focus on credit, but a lot also focus on PE and the percent of PE relative to credit or infrastructure, real estate or whatever asset class you want to talk about, depending on the risk profile and their capital base, they may be more aggressive or less aggressive. But they tend to lean more towards credit than PE. But for what we're looking at with AIG and Convex in the near term, I think it could be more balanced than you would expect from a PE and credit perspective, but we're working on that right now with AIG and Convex. So but you should also think about Convex in terms of, you know, how much of their asset base would be in sort of non-investment grade, high quality. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:32:34Like the current portfolio at Convex is like literally a double-A plus portfolio. You shouldn't be ever thinking that more than 10% goes into those type of assets. 90% of what Convex does will always be sort of double-A plus, pristine type assets that are assets matched up against liabilities. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:32:53Great. Very helpful. Thanks, Bobby. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:32:55Thank you. Operator00:32:57Thank you. This does conclude the question and answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to Bobby Le Blanc for any further remarks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:33:06Thank you very much, and thanks for participating on the call. Personally, we're going to try to get this to not be on a Friday, going forward. I think that'll be good for everybody. But before we close the call, I just want, once again, I want to thank you, Chris, for your partnership and all that you've done for Onex, you know, over your career here. You're not going anywhere, so I'm gonna start with that. But as your role changes, I just want to make sure we thank you for all you've done to date. And as for our new CFO, Megan McClellan, we look forward to her joining us, and she'll be on the next earnings call, and I look forward to introducing her then. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:33:47Until then, have a great day and a great weekend. Thanks again. Operator00:33:52Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. 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PresentationSkip to Participants Operator00:00:00Welcome to Onex Q4 and full year 2025 Conference Call and webcast. During the presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Afterwards, we will conduct a question-and-answer session with pre-qualified analysts. At that time, if you have a question, please press star one one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Jill Homenuk, Managing Director, Shareholder Relations and Communications at Onex. Please go ahead. Jill HomenukManaging Director, Shareholder Relations and Communications at Onex00:00:32Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thanks for joining us. We're broadcasting this call on our website. Hosting the call today are Bobby Le Blanc, Onex's Chief Executive Officer, and Chris Govan, our Chief Financial Officer. Earlier this morning, we issued our Q4 and full year 2025 press release, MD&A, and consolidated financial statements, which are available on the shareholder section of our website and have also been filed on SEDAR. A supplemental information package is also available on our website. As a reminder, all references to dollar amounts on this call are in U.S., unless otherwise stated. I must also point everyone to our webcast presentation for our usual disclaimer and cautionary factors relating to any forward-looking statements contained in today's presentation and remarks. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Bobby. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:01:28Good morning, everyone. In 2025, Onex delivered strong results and made meaningful progress on our business and capital allocation objectives to set the stage for accelerated value creation and earnings growth going forward. Most notably, our recently completed acquisition of Convex and our new strategic relationship with AIG has significantly enhanced our growth prospects and earnings outlook. Across Onex, we are entering 2026 with momentum and confidence. We're able to do almost 7 years of due diligence on Convex, given it was an Onex Partners V portfolio company. This is exactly the type of informational advantage that we look for as investors. Convex is expected to be Onex's largest contributor to value creation going forward, and the accelerated closing reflected a strong commitment and alignment across Convex, AIG, and Onex to complete the transaction on an expedited basis. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:02:44As a reminder, the transaction valued Convex at $7 billion, with Onex and AIG owning approximately 63% and 35%, respectively. In addition, the Convex management team demonstrated their alignment and conviction by rolling approximately $500 million of equity and accrued incentives, which is a major vote of confidence in our partnership and go-forward strategy. This morning, we released our year-end financial information for Convex. In 2025, the team delivered another outstanding year, continuing to demonstrate their ability to deliver industry-leading growth and profitability. You will find more information in our Q4 supplemental information package, but here are some of the highlights. For the year, Convex delivered $711 million in net income and an overall return on equity of 20%. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:03:51Net income increased 25% versus the $566 million Q3 latest twelve months figure we announced at the time of the acquisition and grew 40% from the $506 million delivered in 2024. This 2025 net income figure equates to $423 million for Onex, based upon our 63% ownership position, and is updated for Convex's pro forma interest cost on the $600 million of debt raised as part of the transaction. The team achieved $5.9 billion of gross premium written in 2025, growing 14% year-over-year. Convex's ability to scale to this level of gross premium written in less than seven years demonstrates the impressive business the Convex team has built and the value they provide to their customers. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:04:50Despite the significant growth, Convex has still only captured about 2% of its addressable market, which highlights the significant opportunity we and management continue to see for the business. Convex also delivered consistent and strong underwriting performance in 2025, with an 89% combined ratio, the third consecutive year of combined ratios under 90%. Management expects to continue growing earnings through-cycle by utilizing several structural levers, including, one, capturing further operating leverage as Convex continues to scale into its expense base. Two, growth and asset leverage. Three, growth and net underwriting profitability. And lastly, yield improvement on Convex's growing investment portfolio. This strong financial performance increased Convex's tangible book value to $3.8 billion at year-end, resulting in a reduction of Onex's effective acquisition multiple to 1.8x tangible book value and 10x 2025 net income. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:06:10In our supplemental information package, we outline more information, including Convex's structural competitive advantages, how management plans to continue to grow through-cycle, and how Convex should deliver significant value to Onex shareholders. When we announced the transaction, one of our commitments to shareholders was to ensure you receive transparency on our investment in Convex, so you can value it appropriately. Next month, in follow-up to today's earnings update, we plan to publish complete financial information for Convex, similar to the tables we provided at the time of our Q3 announcement. The addition of Convex as a core Onex platform, alongside private equity and credit, will play a pivotal role in our ongoing transition, where we continue to prioritize consistently growing net income and free cash flow to help drive overall enterprise value. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:07:11Our future capital allocation initiatives will align with this strategy, focusing on direct investments with strong risk-adjusted returns, low leverage, and longer hold periods in sectors where we have a right to win. While we continue to support our private equity and credit strategies to ensure continued alignment with our LPs and co-investors by participating in each fund up to a maximum of 10%, this capital-lighter model will enable a higher proportion of third-party capital in our funds. This, in turn, will contribute to ongoing growth in fee-generating AUM, fee-related earnings, and carried interest. Early in 2025, both of our private equity platforms, Onex Partners and ONCAP, completed successful fundraises. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:08:06Throughout the year, both made progress in continuing to return capital to their limited partners and co-investors, a total of $8 billion in realizations, and in securing new investment opportunities with high conviction value creation plans. Onex Partners had an active and successful year and has extended the momentum into 2026. OP announced $7.7 billion in total distributions in 2025, including $4.3 billion to its co-investors. Since 2024, OP has returned $10 billion of capital across 8 realizations and completed 6 new investments totaling $2 billion. Recently, OP entered into an agreement to create a $1.5 billion multi-asset continuation vehicle with leading global secondary funds and sovereign investors. The transaction is expected to close this quarter and deliver proceeds of approximately $310 million to Onex. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:09:15Importantly, we'll also bring DPI for Onex Partners V to 0.8, positioning it very favorably relative to other funds of this vintage. As you all know, there has recently been a lot of news around software and AI disruption. Looking at the percentage of our investing capital in technology-enabled businesses, we feel comfortable with our relative exposure and the embedded protections of our company's business models and competitive environments. Only 4% of Onex's total investing capital is tied directly to pure vertical software businesses. Looking at it from the broadest perspective, only 14% of Onex's total investing capital is invested in tech-enabled firms. All these businesses have proprietary data and significant competitive moats, sustained by regulatory barriers and B2B workflows occurring inside their systems. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:10:21Across our operating companies, we are not seeing any meaningful evidence of disruption, but rather, they're continuously improving their product value proposition through the adoption of AI and other data analytic tools. Turning to ONCAP, the team returned $270 million to investors, including Onex, in 2025, which was primarily driven by the partial sale of Precision Concepts. ONCAP also recently completed its leadership succession process, which resulted in two of its most proven leaders, Adam Shantz and Stephen Marshall, becoming co-heads of the platform. Michael Lay has transitioned into the role of ONCAP Executive Chair. Congratulations to each of them on this milestone, which ensures long-term leadership continuity for ONCAP. Our credit team had another outstanding year. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:11:20Within structured credit, where we are recognized as a global leader, we priced 28 CLOs across the U.S. and Europe, raising more than $6 billion of new fee-generating AUM and extending another $6 billion. Chris will get into more detail on fee-related earnings, but it's worth noting that the team's ability to increase fee-generating AUM has enabled them to exceed our Investor Day run rate FRE expectations. We have a reputation for delivering strong performance within our CLOs relative to peer firms through a proactive and diligent approach to portfolio management. By heavily investing in our underwriting processes and implementing state-of-the-art risk management tools and processes,... we were able to navigate the spread-challenged credit landscape and avoid involvement in some of the high-profile casualties like First Brands and Saks Global that impacted the broader credit market last year. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:12:27The credit team, to its credit, is also underweight software and AI risk credits across its portfolio. Across Onex, our success wouldn't be possible without the commitment and dedication of the people who make up the organization. I want to thank them for all they do and also for making Onex a great place to come to work every day. We have strong conviction in Onex's intrinsic value and are intensifying our efforts to have that value reflected in our stock price. In the supplemental information package, we've included how management views Onex's intrinsic value. At this stage of our capital allocation transition, we believe it is appropriate to utilize a sum of the parts framework. There are currently three distinct value drivers for shareholders: Convex, our asset management business, and our remaining balance sheet investments. The slide on the screen is a really important one to focus on. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:13:38As you can see, when utilizing first the acquisition for Convex, which we believe is conservative, given the strong recent performance, and then applying a 15x multiple to pro forma 2026 year-end run rate fee-related earnings, and then finally, looking at the value of our remaining investing capital at the Q4 valuation, we believe intrinsic value is $174. Importantly, our current estimate does not include the value we expect to generate for shareholders over time from reorienting realized proceeds from our private equity investments into one or two direct balance sheet investments similar to Convex, that ideally have a good strategic fit with Convex and our asset management business. These investments will use lower leverage and have attractive risk-adjusted return profiles to drive growth and enterprise value for Onex shareholders. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:14:48We will also provide significant transparency and financial KPIs similar to Convex on each investment to support our shareholders in measuring our performance. Having our intrinsic value properly reflected in our share price is a top priority, and we are committed to delivering the earnings growth, disciplined execution, and transparency to make this happen. I want to thank our shareholders for their ongoing support over the past year and for their confidence as we move forward. The pieces are in place for a solid year, and our team is laser-focused on driving enterprise and shareholder value. I'll now turn the call over to Chris. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:15:36Thanks, Bobby, and good morning, everyone. While most of my remarks will focus on our results for the quarter, I will also take some time to provide an update following the completion of the Convex acquisition. So let's start with our investing segment. Onex ended the year with investing capital per share of $124.70, a return of 3% in the quarter and 10% for the year. The five-year CAGR on investing capital per share is now 11%. Investing gains in the quarter were driven by strong returns from Onex Partners V and Onex Partners Opportunities of 4% and 7% respectively, and a 6% return across the ONCAP portfolio. Our credit investments were essentially flat in Q4, driven by spread compression on the CLOs' underlying portfolio of loans. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:16:28With spreads on the CLO's debt fixed in the short term, spread compression in the portfolio results in a reduction in the mark-to-market value of our CLO equity. However, it's important to note that our CLO investments continue to offer an attractive go-forward return and cash distribution profile. Moreover, we expect any mismatch in spreads to be eliminated by refinancing the CLO liabilities as they come out of their no-call period, which is typically one or two years. As Bobby discussed, 2025 was a strong year of private equity realizations for us, with the $8 billion of realizations across the platforms delivering over $800 million to Onex Corporation. Realizations in the Q4 included Onex Partners V sales of 54% of OneDigital and 25% of WestJet. In addition, Onex Corporation completed its final realization of Ryan Specialty, netting just over $200 million. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:17:28In total, the Ryan Specialty investment generated aggregate proceeds of $1.2 billion for Onex Corp over almost eight years, a multiple of capital of 3.8x and a 49% IRR. On the new investment front, activity in the Q4 included the acquisition of Integrated Specialty Coverages by Onex Partners Opportunities and ONCAP V's investment in CSN Collision. Onex Partners Opportunities also agreed to invest in its fourth portfolio company, a transaction that is expected to close later this quarter. On the asset management side of the business, Onex ended the quarter with nearly $44 billion of fee-generating AUM, an increase of 24% during the year.... The increase primarily reflects the issuance of new CLOs, commitments made to ONCAP V and Onex Partners Opportunities, and net write-ups in the PE portfolio. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:18:25The asset management segment generated earnings of $49 million in Q4, of which $2 million was fee-related earnings from our PE and credit platforms. After factoring in the costs associated with managing Onex Corporation's capital and maintaining the public company, firm-wide FRE was a loss of $4 million for the quarter and $3 million for the year. Looking forward, credit continues its strong FRE trajectory, ending 2025 with run rate FRE of $60 million. As Bobby noted, this is ahead of our 2023 Investor Day target. Consistent with the Q3 earnings call commentary, we ended the year with firm-wide run rate FRE of $17 million, which includes the benefit of the multi-asset continuation vehicle, or MACV, that Bobby mentioned. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:19:16At the time of the Q3 call, we expected the MACV to be signed up for the year-end, so its impact was included in the $17 million forecast. I should also note that since management fees on the MACV won't start accruing until the transaction closes later this quarter, we don't expect our quarterly FRE to reflect the $17 million annual run rate until Q2. With that in mind, we're projecting firm-wide FRE for 2026 in the low- to mid-$20 million range. More importantly, we expect to exit 2026 with firm-wide run rate FRE that is more than twice the $17 million from the start of the year. I think it's important to note, our assumptions around new fee-generating AUM in 2026 include only about one-third of AIG's $2 billion of expected commitments and no additional allocations from Convex. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:20:19As an aside, for those of you wondering about the MACV economics, from an investing capital perspective, Onex's expected proceeds from the sale represent pricing that is about 98% of where we had those investments marked at Q4. However, the MACV has a couple of other benefits. It converts Onex's capital into fee and carry generating AUM, and it extends the life of management fees and carry on third-party capital. So when we add the present value of these benefits to the sales proceeds, we think of the value to Onex being well above the Q4 marks. Now, as alluded to at the outset, I think it would be helpful for me to add some color around the final funding of the Convex transaction, as well as Onex's go-forward liquidity position. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:21:11At closing, Onex drew $700 million under a NAV loan facility, $300 million less than originally contemplated in a $1 billion draw. The reduced draw was possible due to incremental realizations and distributions from our private equity platforms. Following the close of the transaction, Onex retained approximately $400 million of cash and near cash and maintained access to $500 million of undrawn funds on the revolving portion of the NAV loan, providing total liquidity of approximately $900 million. As a reminder, Onex has almost $5 billion of PE investments relative to $735 million of unfunded commitments, of which only $330 million are to fund in their commitment period. So we're quite comfortable that this liquidity is sufficient to fund our capital needs, and we expect significant net PE realizations over the next few years. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:22:17With this being my final earnings call as CFO, I want to close by thanking all of my colleagues at Onex who have supported me over the last 11 years, including, of course, Bobby. Most importantly, thank you, Gerry, for building this wonderful company and giving me the opportunity to serve as its CFO. Finally, a warm welcome to Megan McClellan, Onex's next CFO. I look forward to supporting her during the transition. That concludes the prepared remarks. We'll now be happy to take any questions. Operator00:22:51Certainly. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, if you do have a question at this time, please press star one one on your telephone. If your question has been answered and you'd like to remove yourself from the queue, simply press star one one again. One moment for our first question. Our first question comes from the line of Graham Ryding from TD Securities. Your question, please. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:23:13Hi, good morning. There's, I appreciate the disclosure you provided on Convex. And I think you flagged some areas in your—in the presentation, slide 14, where you think could potentially offset what looks like it might be a softening or is a softening pricing environment. What areas do you think in particular are going to have the most impact here, and, and are you expecting Convex to continue to generate earnings growth in what might be sort of a, a later stage in the cycle? Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:23:42Yeah. Hi, Graham, it's Bobby. Like, we're viewing 2026 as a sort of -4%-ish rate environment for property and casualty. But just given where Convex is in its evolution, you know, we believe that those levers that we have to pull would more than offset that type of rate pressure. Those things include continuing to gain market share. Importantly, we are nowhere near growing into our expense base, so that operating leverage is going to continue as we continue to grow the top line. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:24:22And on the left side of the balance sheet, we've really never done anything to sort of optimize yield enhancement, if you will. I think there's a very good opportunity there without taking, you know, much incremental risk, by the way, including using some of the Onex products for, you know, a small portion of their balance sheet. And finally, you know, the way it works in insurance, as you grow into scale, you also grow into your asset leverage. And our asset leverage has meaningful upside from this point forward. So I feel quite good, you know, absent very strange catastrophic events, that you're gonna continue to see earnings growth in 2026 from Convex. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:25:06Okay, great. And, on the the FRE outlook, Chris, that you provided, appreciate the sort of ladder that you provided to sort of get you to $35 million as a run rate. Is that—should we interpret that as sort of Q4, you hit that, $35 million, like Q4 2026? And, did you say that one third of the $2 billion from AIG is part of that sort of exit run rate? Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:25:40Yeah, So I'll take a second part first. That, that's correct. Our, our budget, I'll call it, has about one third of that capital being allocated, this year. And so it would be fully in the year-end run rate, but obviously doesn't, fully impact in-year, revenues and profitability. In, in terms of when we expect to hit that 35, yeah, we're gonna hit it at year-end. But that, again, given, you know, it's a run rate, and so you have capital being raised constantly throughout the year, you know, you sort of we take the benefit of that all at year-end on an annualized basis. But y- you know, some of that revenue won't be fully impacting Q4. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:26:22So you really don't expect—we don't expect to hit our run rate in terms of in-quarter earnings until the following quarter. So you'd expect something close to a quarter of that in Q1 2027. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:26:38Understood. Thank you. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:26:39Yeah. And one other thing, Grant, that those numbers only are include a third of AIG, but they also include no dollars coming in from Convex, which I think is a very conservative assumption. Graham RydingManaging Director at TD Securities00:26:54Understood. Operator00:26:57Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Bart Jurczyk from RBC Capital Markets. Your question, please. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:27:05Great. Thanks. Good morning, everyone. Wanted to ask around the software tech exposure. So thanks for giving that to us, Bobby. 4% invested capital. Just to confirm, is that also 4% of AUM? And could you split that between the exposure within private equity and private credit? Thanks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:27:25Yeah, so that is our overall NAV exposure to software is 4% and things that are on our balance sheet. Okay, so for that, it is mostly private equity and particularly two software companies that we have, PowerSchool and Unanet. So we are very underweight on the private equity side, software. On the credit side, to their, to... And I said credit twice on the- when I did the script, and I'll say it again, like they are meaningfully underweight software by more than 200 basis points against, you know, their concepts, which is great. And I'd be remiss just not to give that team a lot of credit, not only for being underweight software and AI risk-type loans, but they're meaningfully underweight in direct lending. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:28:18I'm sure you're watching and hearing all of the news around direct lending, particularly in the real retail front right now. And they were not in any of the major credits of Tricor, First Brands and Saks. Like, that team has done a very good job of... We overinvested in analysts, right? And we heavily invested in state-of-the-art risk management tools. But I also give credit just to the judgment and seeing where the puck was going, so to speak, and I'm really proud of, you know, all of our investment teams in terms of where we sit on a relative basis and an absolute basis with exposure to software. Chris GovanCFO at Onex00:28:55Yeah, and Bart, just for a second, just on your total AUM question and the 4%, I don't have an exact number, but I know that the total private equity AUM, the exposure would be less than that 4%. We're a little overweight just in terms of allocations, and commitments to funds, compared to the platform as a whole. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:29:15Okay, great. Thank you. That's very helpful. And then just on the FRE guide, so thanks for unpacking that for us, Chris. And wondering, could you give us kind of the latest on fundraising, you know, OP VI? I think that fund has now been launched in Q1, if I'm not mistaken, but maybe just your latest thoughts, sizing, timing of that fund. Thanks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:29:39Yeah, I wouldn't call it officially launched, but we're certainly in the process of gearing up for fundraising, like, real-time. We're not gonna get into today's size and timing, but, you know, certainly we'd be looking to have a first close, at some point, in 2026. But there's really not much more we can say on that point. Ronnie's still in the market with his OSCO Fund. You know, we expect that to close sometime in the next quarter or two. I don't see ONCAP in market, in 2026, just given they're about halfway through on their investment period in their current fund. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:30:19As for the rest of our credit products, we're always in market, you know, vis-à -vis trying to sell every day because those are not traditional, you know, fund structured products or things that our LPs and other people can invest in every day. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:30:35Okay, great. And then just one more, if I may. You made an interesting point around, Convex coming into Onex, and so maybe just help us understand that, like, the duration of Convex's liabilities, what assets would they lend themselves to, to be managed by Onex? Like, how would that matching work? Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:30:54Yeah, so like, unlike life insurance, property casualty insurance has less asset leverage, if you will- Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:31:02Right. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:31:02which is why you see so many people going after these annuity blocks, which we looked at, by the way, and never really could get comfortable with the pricing. And we knew this asset so much better. It's just an easier place for us to begin. But it depends on the person investing the dollars into the funds. People, if insurance companies, which are firms, obviously, that we're trying to do business with outside of even AIG and Convex. For those that are overcapitalized, that can afford Risk-Based Capital charges, they may be more evenly split between PE and credit. But the riskier the asset, the higher the capital charge for an insurance company when they invest in alternative asset management. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:31:49So most focus on credit, but a lot also focus on PE and the percent of PE relative to credit or infrastructure, real estate or whatever asset class you want to talk about, depending on the risk profile and their capital base, they may be more aggressive or less aggressive. But they tend to lean more towards credit than PE. But for what we're looking at with AIG and Convex in the near term, I think it could be more balanced than you would expect from a PE and credit perspective, but we're working on that right now with AIG and Convex. So but you should also think about Convex in terms of, you know, how much of their asset base would be in sort of non-investment grade, high quality. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:32:34Like the current portfolio at Convex is like literally a double-A plus portfolio. You shouldn't be ever thinking that more than 10% goes into those type of assets. 90% of what Convex does will always be sort of double-A plus, pristine type assets that are assets matched up against liabilities. Bart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital Markets00:32:53Great. Very helpful. Thanks, Bobby. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:32:55Thank you. Operator00:32:57Thank you. This does conclude the question and answer session of today's program. I'd like to hand the program back to Bobby Le Blanc for any further remarks. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:33:06Thank you very much, and thanks for participating on the call. Personally, we're going to try to get this to not be on a Friday, going forward. I think that'll be good for everybody. But before we close the call, I just want, once again, I want to thank you, Chris, for your partnership and all that you've done for Onex, you know, over your career here. You're not going anywhere, so I'm gonna start with that. But as your role changes, I just want to make sure we thank you for all you've done to date. And as for our new CFO, Megan McClellan, we look forward to her joining us, and she'll be on the next earnings call, and I look forward to introducing her then. Bobby Le BlancCEO at Onex00:33:47Until then, have a great day and a great weekend. Thanks again. Operator00:33:52Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your participation in today's conference. This does conclude the program. You may now disconnect. Good day.Read moreParticipantsExecutivesBobby Le BlancCEOChris GovanCFOJill HomenukManaging Director, Shareholder Relations and CommunicationsAnalystsBart JurczykManaging Director at RBC Capital MarketsGraham RydingManaging Director at TD SecuritiesPowered by