Marci, great to have you with us. Thanks so much for joining us. How how is your reaction to the recent turmoil, Laura, on private credit, but about around private assets in general.I just interestingly enough, I'm here at an event with my head of private equity and the chief investment officer, and we're having this conversation yesterday. And, you know, on the private credit side, we've been very specialized and working only with, you know, high quality managers. We had a 8% allocation to private credit, ...

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