Q3 2022 Arion banki hf Earnings Call Transcript
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Good morning, and a very warm welcome to this presentation of our third-quarter results. My name is Benedikt GÃslason. And with me here today to present the results and our operating environment are our Chief Economist, Erna Björg Sverrisdóttir; and our CFO, Ãlafur Höskuldsson.
To start with, a very strong quarter in terms of core income and a 10.5% ROE in the quarter, and almost 15% for the first nine months. This result is very much driven by the ongoing positive momentum in our core income, which increased by some 19% in the third quarter and almost 20% increase for the first nine months.
Now it was a challenging market -- capital markets in Iceland, which impacts our financial income in the quarter. These are financial losses on the investment portfolio of our insurance business, Vördur, and in our own market-making activities.
And that actually impacts our effective tax rate, again, which is unusually high at 36.5%, which is due to the combination of income and especially loss on equity positions. We are also
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