and michael conner executive vice presses at pimco. >> thank you for joining us. good to see ya'll again. so we'll revisit some of our presentation from june of 2016. but we're going to set a couple stones first. one is, you know, how do we define risk and think about risk? most importantly how does that translate to when we set a strategic asset allocation? and then we'll have a couple of examples of what are some broad approaches that one can use to manage risk? we'll go through a couple examples there. and then, you know, additionally we'll focus a little more closely on buying puts and what a dedicated put-buying program would look like if it's done in a passive fashion. and to steal the punch line of the rest of the portfolio, that's not something we're generally supportive of. we think a strategic asset allocation is the best solution to manage the broad spectrum of risk that exists in the market today. focusing on just down side risk and many ways ignores the real risk of not meeting long-term liabilities. there's a return target and a return expectation. t