Jason Steward

“In terms of leverage and portfolio repayment activity, I guess just one, if you could clarify, I get about a penny of fee income from repayments in the third quarter, if that seems right to you, if you could just clarify that.”

“Looking at new investment activity, I think perhaps the IRON transaction skewed these statistics a little bit, if that was included. But could you just talk through maybe some of the larger kind of KPIs in there in terms of average investment size?”

“If I could ask a question on rates, I know you talked about the cycle historically and the underlying portfolio companies performing quite well, going from, say, zero to five.”

“Going back to the dividend, when you have that discussion with the board, what factors are most important? Is it incremental returns? Is it how much credit you think the stock is getting for the dividend, which is obviously quite low?”

“In terms of the MFIC transaction, is it your anticipation that it's all going to be funded within ARCC or whether, you know, it's going to go to any IAM vehicles?”