...Ladies and gentlemen, my name is William Connelly, and I'm the Chair of the Board of Directors of Aegon Limited. On behalf of Aegon, I welcome you to Aegon's 2025 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. I hereby open the meeting. I am pleased to welcome our shareholders participating in this meeting. Let me introduce the people present with me here at the table. Dona Young, Chair of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, Lard Friese, Executive Director and CEO; Duncan Russell, CFO; and Bieke Debruyne, Company Secretary. The other members of the Board of Directors as well as the directors, nominees are present here as well. Also present today are Onno van Klinken, our General Counsel; Yves Cormier, Head of Investor Relations; and [Sanja Nauta], the principal representative of the company. I hereby appoint Bieke Debryune as Secretary of this general meeting. She will keep the minutes of today's meeting Before we continue, I would like to make a few remarks. Shareholders who have...
