Brian, it’s a real pleasure having you join us on Private Capital Call.

1. Pandemic Environment. You led private capital at Nuveen for five years, then in 2020 became the CIO of a major life and annuity business serving the middle market. What were the challenges of your new job coinciding with COVID 19?

February 2020 was certainly an interesting timing to start any new job in finance, particularly coming in as Kuvare’s first CIO! In a lot of ways, it was like going right from spring training to game seven of the World Series. I spent my first month getting to know our portfolio, the broader team at Kuvare and our external asset managers…