Q4 2020 TriState Capital Holdings Inc Earnings Call
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Representing Tristate capital Holdings today are Jim Getz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Brian is better off President and CEO of Tristate capital Bank.
They will be joined for the question and answer session by David Demas, Chief Financial Officer at this time I would like to turn the conference over to Mr. Getz.
Good morning, and thank you for joining us.
2020 was a defining year for tristate capital.
Total revenue net interest income of noninterest income reached their highest annual levels in the company's history.
We grew total loans and deposits by double digit rates for the seventh consecutive year.
As both of our private banking and commercial banking business has responded in exceptional ways to meet our clients' needs.
Our Chartwell investment partners asset manager delivered strong performance during the year and leveraged its excellent distribution capability to grow assets under management and dramatically improve its profitability in 2020.
I am very proud of how our three businesses and each member of this company work together during an extraordinary year to deliver for our clients and shareholders. The results of the referenced prove what we have long said.
That this company is designed to outperform in any environment.
And while 2020 created challenges never seen before.
It also significantly accelerated the growth of progress of many significant parts of our business.
Bolstered by the additional capital we secured in 2020, we are well positioned for meaningful success in 2021.
Chartwell continues to be the largest contributor of our noninterest income revenue.
The delivered very strong investment performance in 2020.
The leveraged its exceptional distribution capabilities.
Assets under management al exceeds $10 billion, expanding organically by 6% from the end of 2019 and 34% for the market's trough on March 23rd 2020.
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Through the third quarter of last year.
Positive net flows of $152 million across our institutional and retail businesses in 2020 compared of net outflows of $771 million in 2019.
Chartwells run rate revenue as of year end was nearly $36 million up 6% during the fourth quarter.
And the success of our strategic efforts to sustainably enhance chartwell profitability is paying off chartwell in 2020 grew annual net income by 15% and fourth quarter earnings by 89% over the year prior.
As we begin 2021, Chartwells institution of new business pipeline stands at $115 million.
And the unfunded commitments.
We have high expectations for chartwell and its ability to contribute to the overall company's top and bottom lines in 2021 on.
Our marketing and distribution support for its investment strategies continues unabated.
As just one example, we're focusing significant marketing efforts around Chartwells short duration high yield product. The strategy is uniquely positioned to perform in this environment and attract both institutional and retail clients.
And with nearly $2 $8 billion on assets under management, the short duration double the discipline combines critical mass with solid long and short term track records, making the strategy very attractive for our business.
Tristate Capital Bank also continued to outperform in 2020 <unk>.
Delivering robust annual total loan and deposit growth of.
The 25% and 28% respectively.
We achieved this meaningful growth through deep and expanding relationships with our private banking and commercial bank business.
Private banking loans grew by $1 1 billion on 30% during the year for.
For <unk> 8 billion at year end.
These loans, which are primarily collateralized by marketable securities make up more than 58% of total loans and we see ample runway to continue growing this business and dominating the our position in this market.
Private banking loan applications and two in 2020 were up 60%.
Year over year, almost twice the rate of growth in 2019, and we expanded our referral network the 249 financial intermediary firms.
The business contributes meaningfully to our company's exceptional asset quality metrics.
And low credit costs.
Commercial loans grew 19% during the year on an annualized 29% during the quarter through broad based growth in many of our strategies.
Commercial and industrial growth during the quarter outpaced our real estate lending.
With continued strength and established an enhanced products, including equipment finance and our offerings for financial service companies.
Commercial real estate lending continued to grow meaningfully as we supported our existing and new clients.
Turning to credit quality and depth of of our commercial lending relationships and our fundamental underwriting are also important factors in our sound credit quality.
Our commercial and industrial and commercial real estate portfolios remain well diversified by product as well as by geography.
We historically had limited exposure to some of the businesses that have been more negatively impacted by COVID-19, like hotels and shopping centers.
Additionally, we are pleased that the overwhelming majority of our clients we work with to provide COVID-19 deferral agreements, we're able to exit these arrangements.
The year end.
The 13 remaining deferrals as of December 31, two.
Total in the $84 $5 million for 1% of total loans.
As planned and previously communicated we adopted the CSO as of December 31, 2020, and reported an allowance for loan losses of just under $35 million.
Representing 101 basis points of commercial loans, our reserves reflect our differentiated and high quality loans portfolio.
Our loan growth was matched by strong deposit growth, reflecting continued progress and the strengthening and broadening of our overall client based on channels. We achieved record annual deposit growth in 2020 and delivered annualized quarterly deposit growth of more than 14 per.
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Treasury management deposits grew nearly 36% during the year on an annualized 32, 5% for the fourth quarter.
Our strong loan growth and deposit cost and volume management contributed to our expanding net interest margin in the fourth quarter and more importantly, supported record net interest income of nearly $138 million in 2029.
9% from 2019.
Quarterly net interest income grew more than 30% annualized from the linked third quarter and our margin expanded by seven basis points during the fourth quarter.
The strong net interest income growth along with performance of Chartwell.
Continued swap the activity and feeds from our growth in Treasury management services led to 7% annual total revenue expansion for the company's highest level yet.
For 2020 in the rear view, our confidence in our unique business model has been reinforced.
It was tested and proven and were eager and optimistic about the significant opportunities ahead.
We raised more than $200 million in capital in 2020 alone, we're well positioned to accelerate tristate capital's growth in 2021.
More specifically we are focused on the following financial performance goals in 2021.
Growing total revenue of 15% to 20% rate over 2020.
Managing expense growth to a double digit rate over 2020.
Continuing to generate positive net asset inflows at chartwell.
Continuing to expand Chartwell segment profit margins continuing to grow net interest income dollars through volume and net interest margin expansion.
Ganic loan growth of 15%, 20%, while maintaining superior asset quality and organic deposit growth of some 15 to 20 per se.
Before turning to Q&A I'd like to introduce Tristate capital Bank, President and CEO, Brian Fedoroff, who will be touching on technology initiatives underway, which we anticipate will have a significant impact on our success in 2020 and beyond Brian Alright.
Thanks, Jim Good morning, everyone went on.
As Jim mentioned, we wanted to share with you a deeper dive into our bank technology strategy and investment approach, including what we have planned for 'twenty one of.
These are all also included in the financial goals of Jim shared this morning.
As a quick backdrop to investment decision process, we always start with addressing why what and how whereas our favorite phrase from Jim would be what needs to exist to make it happen.
Reorder of these a bit here for this presentation.
So start off why do we invest in technology.
It is important to note that our clients on financial intermediary network are at the heart of every decision that we make.
We are constantly driven to meet and exceed their needs and expect expectations and the find every feasible way to accomplish this we prioritize our investments that provide clients with the user experience and level of personal interaction that they prefer and.
Help them the more effectively manage their business and financial lives and make it increasingly easier for them to do business with us refer business to us and engage for meaningfully with us.
Our high performing team and culture of major Differentiators for us to achieve the standards of client experience.
We're always looking for ways to improve our ability to personally engage with our clients on meaningful needs and through continuous process improvement.
We accomplish this guided by our continuous goal for best in class scalable operating and risk management platforms for not only protect and benefit our own business, but also those of our clients and relationships as well.
So how do we invest in tech our agile tech strategies of major tool, we use to meet these goals and help each of these stakeholders.
We believe our technology investments have a stronger term because we target them to directly maximize our competitive advantages help us address are more complex and value add target markets target niche user experiences and empower our branchless business model.
Yes.
Also we approach our tech development strategy using of design model, which maximizes our internal expertise and provides us access the best in class external expertise, we worked with the perspective of our premier clients, we overlay our industry expertise and our niche markets. We have developed over the life of our company.
And we apply our exceptional product design and project management capabilities to create the most impactful solutions.
We ultimately outsource the actual tech and software development phase by partnering with top firms to deliver on our design vision. So.
So we believe that our approach is the most cost effective framework to deliver the best customized solutions future scalability maximum optionality and minimum legacy constraints for the future on Jim's talked a lot about dealing with those.
The past.
So what have we done so far as we've shared with investors before our proprietary Paris technology empowers us to deliver premier of risk and compliance management through daily monitoring of the securities of collateralized, our private bank loans. This is a game changing investment.
Early on in the lifecycle of Tristate capital the dramatically contributed to our ability to dominate this business in the independent channel growing loan balances by 277% just over the last five years and growing even more significantly the number of clients and intermediaries and loans booked at that time.
Our investment in our Treasury management Tech platform has positioned us to compete with the services and experiences provided by the best in class large banks, while maintaining our focus on high touch with our clients since we initiated our specialized focus on growing this business in 2016, we have delivered the scale and customization for clients with the opera.
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In addition to our 36% PM deposit for us in 2020 alone we have grown the number of <unk> clients by over 400%.
Sorry, ATM accounts by 400% in TM clients by over 100% just since June 2016 alone.
So we've also talked about the release of our digital lending platform for our private bank lending. We designed this to position the financial intermediaries and our clients for better liability management in parallel with their <unk> Festival asset management we.
We designed the DLP to provide the independent broker dealer Advisory and Trust company channels with the securities based lending experience that exceeds what they might have we're actually may have had for those transitioning advisors at of wire house for Banco on securities firm.
The DLP has been totally embraced and private bank applications increased by a record 60% last year compared to 2019. The DLP was also integral to how we were able to communicate and help. These advisors worked with their clients to manage the market volatility in 2020 with perfect maintenance execution.
We are continuously improving each of these platforms, but clearly davis and establish as powerful for the future and established our ability to be agile and effective investors in technology.
So what are we going to do next and what are we going to invest in.
We couldnt be more excited as we look forward to 2021 and beyond as Jim mentioned 2020 accelerated many aspects of our business and this acceleration has confirmed the business and use cases supporting on a rapid and impactful investment in Tech solutions.
Some of the highlights for our 21 initiatives include our Paris, two pointed out which is our 2020% of 2022 initiatives primarily the reinforces its state of the art functionality and performance, but also enhances and scales, our analysis monitoring and loan origination capabilities for the huge opportunities. We see ahead of us on.
The expansion of our front end technology is continuing with particular focus on self service self analysis and communication capabilities for the private bank lending through the DLP and our Treasury management and high net worth deposit clients for online banking.
So on an initiative we introduced in 2020, we are growing the robotic process automation on our middle and back office, and our risk and compliance management environments with the goal of being entirely digital.
We are enhancing our commercial loan system by partnering on development with five serves to facilitate our growing commercial and private bank loan portfolios support our growth and more specialized products such as equipment Finance and fund finance that Jim mentioned.
And more efficiently service, our growing opportunities to agent lending transactions for our larger clients.
And finally through an initiative of introduced in 2020, we are building our data manage the building out our data management and the analytics capabilities through enhanced modern and scalable technology platforms. As we look to help our clients and partners as well as us to capture revenue opportunities.
This is the power. This is really powerful now, especially as we've reached critical mass in the numbers of clients transactions and engagement in our business the.
Technology plans I've mentioned are incorporated into the 'twenty, one financial goals. The Jim shared this morning, and there are a significant contributor to the positive operating leverage that we see in 'twenty, one and there are significant contributor to the development and growth of our business on the top line.
We are of great team of innovative people working on delivering this we are pleased with our success. So far we've never we're never satisfied with where we are but we are more excited than ever by the potential we have.
With that Jim I'll turn it back to you.
Thank you Brian.
We are well positioned to deliver even stronger performance moving forward as we sustain our investments in the proprietary technology and superior talent that distinguish us from peers and the industry.
Tristate capital was built to endure and we firmly believe that this company's best years.
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First question comes from Matt Olney of Stephens. Please go ahead.
Great. Thanks, Good morning, guys.
Alright.
So to start with I guess with the the adoption of seasonal would love to hear more about expectations for provision expense in 'twenty, one and obviously, it's going to be a function of loan growth, but just want to understand other other key factors that could impact us, especially with the.
The unique loan portfolio of the Tri state has with the the private banking loans.
Yeah, Matt we're pleased with how our investment in the talent and our unique culture.
In terms of our approach the credit pays dividends in terms of the strong credit quality we have.
Because of that discipline and the investments we make we expect our annual credit costs will remain well below peers.
Our allowance as Jim had indicated sort of just below $35 million at year end.
We've not seen any notable defaults or losses emerge to date.
As Jim indicated our clients continue to navigate the current mixed economy quite well.
And so while we remain comfortable with our credit book and are proud of the the history of only $34 million of charge offs in the past 10 years.
We want to continue to make sure that we're well positioned to handle any potential issue with respect to.
The economy and things that may emerge.
We provided guidance in 2020.
With respect to provisions primarily because of the seasonal implementation and our election to defer that implementation I don't think we're going to provide.
On Crete guidance. This year I would tell you that we would expect credit costs to be significantly lower in 'twenty one versus 'twenty.
The primary factors that we focus on driving net termination are anticipated improvements in unemployment and anticipated improvements in GDP.
Matt. This is Jim I would also indicate to you that is one of our financial performance goals. We noted that we.
We foresee the loan portfolio of growing 15 two.
The 20% and we fully believe that the.
Private banking portfolio make up about 60% of this portfolio with the end of the.
At the end of the year.
Okay. That's helpful. Thank you for that.
And then I guess shifting over the other financials.
It looked like the tangible book value per share was higher than my expectations and I think the consensus as well any more color you can give us as far as the tangible book value per share as of 12 31 and is there any more incremental dilution or impact on the capital raise and <unk> or all of these fully captured.
In the <unk> number.
Now it should be fully captured in the <unk> number of Matt what will change between Q4 and Q1 is the number of average shares outstanding which will impact some of those calculations of the.
Average shares outstanding will probably move up near the 32 million shares outstanding for the for the first quarter versus what was probably closer to $29 million in Q4.
Okay. Thank you very much.
The next question is from Daniel Tamayo of Raymond James. Please go ahead.
Good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question.
Just wanted to talk about the the margin net interest margin you saw some nice expansion in the fourth quarter with deposit costs coming down and loan yield is hanging in there as you as you mentioned that the wood.
Can you talk about what you expect to see from here kind of assuming.
On a similar rate environment.
Do you still expect to be able to get back to the the 170% range by the end of the year.
Okay.
Daniel we do as you saw we were able to deliver on what we shared with you last quarter, which was margin expansion in the fourth quarter I think Jim mentioned the margin expanded seven basis points.
Even in this flat environment, we do see expansion in 'twenty, one primarily driven by deposit cost reduction so where you were at about 67 basis points on deposit costs in the fourth quarter, we see that dropping too low of <unk> by yearend and anticipate the average for the year will be somewhere around 55 base.
At this point.
On NIM, specifically, we see a NIM of approximately 170 basis points by year end for the bank and probably in the mid $1 <unk> for the holding company.
Yes, I would just add to that.
Obviously nims of function of.
Yes.
Asset size as well as deposit size as well as the rate right. So obviously I think.
What we've demonstrated in 2020 was our ability to raise liquidity when we wanted it and then also to manage those levels of the liquidity by working really highly engaged with or.
With our clients. So our goal in 'twenty one is to continue to match.
The liquidity with our ability to put it to work, but yet really meaningfully grow our deposit franchise.
As we have so.
I think there are two levers there that we demonstrated in the fourth quarter of that will continue to be really good at in the in 'twenty one.
That's terrific.
This is more of a modeling question, but the the other.
Other noninterest expense line.
It ticked up a little bit more than I expected in the quarter what was in that that was the driver of that increase.
Daniel if you'd allow me to step back and just to put expenses and context for the year. The I'd be happy to answer your question.
It's important to start with the mandate, we set out for ourselves at the beginning of the year, which was the chief of expense growth under 10%, we were able to do that we achieved the lowest expense rate growth.
In our company's history since 2013.
We were able to do that while making investments to build and grow our company invest in people and technology focused on regulatory compliance and delivering a distinctive client.
The experience.
Revenue was a bit challenged in 2020 of which led to some higher efficiency ratios.
But with the growth in revenue that we anticipate on our focus to drive operating leverage.
In 'twenty, one we expect to grow expenses by about 10% to 12% and naturally drive a lot of operating leverage which will improve the efficiency ratio and the ratio of noninterest expenses to average assets with respect to other expenses specifically there are a couple of things in there on the provision for unfunded.
Credit costs, given the Cecil implementation drove some of that increased expenses associated with the tax credits as you highlighted in your piece last night drove some of those increases COVID-19 related expenses drove some of those increases and then to a much smaller extent fees associated with running a larger investment.
On volume driven loan expenses drove some of that increase as well.
Dan.
This is Jim what do you want to keep in mind is debt.
We're still building this company for the future.
Stone by stone by stone, so youll notice on our income statement.
And that's the reason why we are.
Bryan Bryan just went over what he did with you we highlight.
Ongoing technology.
And.
For our business to continue to grow drew.
Dramatically, we really have to.
Gear up the technology that we have.
The we need the need to put in place along with the people and Thats where were investing at this time you will see the.
Expense on top of insatiable, having gone up we've hired about 39, new people this year.
Alone, but we're also investing in the robotics that Bryan Bryan indicated that we can complete a lot of the mundane tasks that the people have been completing the past when we put this company together and started doing this private banking business.
It was of paper driven business now.
Now, it's the technology driven business. Thanks to the investments that we've made and you take a look at our growth that we're experiencing on the commercial side.
We've linked up with the right partner and <unk> and we're actually partially underwriting the end.
Their investment in the development of the new system for our.
The commercial lending <unk> lending area.
All of that's contained within the technology number that you see in front of you there.
That's really helpful. I appreciate it.
The next question is from Michael Perito of <unk>. Please go ahead.
Hey, good morning, guys.
Good morning, happy new year.
I appreciate all the color so far.
I think it's an interesting discussion right the technology investments, but the future scalability of the all in I know.
David You mentioned that you guys expect to improve the efficiency ratio and I think that that makes sense. When you kind of look at everything you laid out but that also doesn't seem like the maybe the best metric to kind of look at the company relative to peers right because of the AUM business, which I know runs a little higher so I'm. Just curious if you could maybe spend a second telling us a little bit more about how you think.
Some of the scalability of that you guys expect to experience in 2021 should impact mother return metrics like ROA and ROE.
How we should think about the improvement in this this year.
So Mike as we think about ROA, and ROE will likely see ROE E increase before or away.
We believe the yields on interest bearing assets will be range bound for a period of time here, particularly as we grow on investments at the same.
At the similar rate as loans.
Earnings will grow from sort of what we describe as our responsible growth strategy and will generate a return on the capital that we were able to raise in 2020 and deploy that capital.
Jim mentioned that we are a growing company and you need to keep in mind that the.
The lag of return there's a lagging the return on that growth. So if you think about the contributions of sort of of solid loan book. It takes time for that revenue to materialize, obviously of the increases overtime pay for the cost of client acquisition capital provisioning for C. So.
As well as the cost of growing liquidity to fund all of this this will increase over time the.
On the sub debt expense is also a component of interest expense and it takes time to deploy that so.
We've got the economics of of growing bank as Jim pointed out a minute ago and some of the expense structure that we've put in place of 2020 will pay dividends in 2021. So.
ROE improvement before on ROA.
And I think with.
I'd take you back to Jim's goals for the year in terms of revenue growth expense growth and what we what we plan to do in terms of the balance sheet.
Sure understood and then just.
Of clarification question on the 10% to 12% of expense growth for the year.
Are you guys, assuming that off of kind of like 123 million ish jump right. Here on 2020 are there any other adjustments we should be mindful of.
No I think if you just took our annual expenses for 2020 and.
Grew that by low double digits as Jim indicated.
That's what we would expect for the year.
Got it great. Thank you guys.
Thanks for.
Again, if you have a question. Please press Star then one the next question comes from Steve Moss of B Riley Securities. Please go ahead.
Hi, Good morning, guys good morning, Steve.
On just on the loan growth guidance here, 15% to 20%.
Little bit below kind of what you've done the last couple of years.
The even relative to this past quarter, just kind of curious to give some color as to the.
How to think about that I heard you Jim when you said business.
The private once you get the 60%.
But just kind of curious as to how you think of the pipeline and growth over the course of the year.
Yes, I think.
Ryan.
Yes, I think the.
The 15% to 20% probably.
Very safe base line number, but we would expect to probably push that more in the 20% to 25% range, but I think another way to think about 15 to 20 percentage probably on an average.
Loan growth basis, so as we look at that more on Yelp.
The hope growing that across the.
Across the year, but we.
We believe that we have probably the best loan growth opportunities than we've ever had as we approach the next year or so.
So we thought.
But we would expect to be over that 20% number again I think if we look at 15% to 20% revenue, we will certainly get part of that from the.
The margin expansion, we talked about obviously, we will put it put some additional money to work on the investment side.
Then growing the loans over 20% support that revenue growth.
Okay. That's helpful and then in terms of just.
Maybe following up on on the reserve ratio and credit costs here.
I hear you guys on the economy improving.
Helped drive the provision expense down.
Alright.
How do we think about maybe debt reserve ratio of heading back towards what we saw.
Pre COVID-19 in terms of maybe how long it will take to get back towards those levels.
Well I think we're.
Yes, I think were looking.
Looking at our various sort of flat economy, and I mean from a reserve perspective, I think in 'twenty two for 'twenty one.
As David mentioned right. So that's going to be a multiyear process from our perspective, we're not necessarily in a rush to do any of this but.
Again, the loans, we put on in 'twenty, one again and the pride of revert back to your answer from last time.
Net private bank loans, we will continue to look to grow 25% to 30%. So out of that number that we gave to you about 15% to 25% loan growth.
Significant part of that will be on the private bank side and.
And then.
On the commercial side of the loans, we put on this year, we think we will.
Yes, it will be favorable on under Cecil treatment. So we would expect that yes. This is going to be a pretty modest year from a contribution but of revert.
So we will start obviously, reducing the percent loans.
The provision to loans.
Through our growth because of that will probably come on of it slower.
And then but in terms of actual releases I think for <unk>.
We're looking at a longer period.
So if David if you wanted to add to that I agree if you if you're on.
Targeting on your comment to releases I don't think Youll see us release reserves for a while but from a net average annual credit costs, we would expect to continue that.
Outperform relative to peers for sure you want to keep in mind what are.
The historical track record has been.
With regard to.
Credit Steve the we.
Haven't had a single net charge off in the past three years.
For the past five years, it's been $2 $6 million and then if you look back to the recession it was $37 million.
So.
We have a pretty credible.
The track record in that regard that the.
On the underwriting system that we've put in place has really delivered.
<unk> delivered the delivered to us and we continue to have confidence in that.
Right well. Thank you very much I appreciate all the color.
Thank you the next day.
The next question is from Russell Gunther of D. A Davidson. Please go ahead.
Good morning, guys.
Good morning, guys I wanted to.
Yes.
So on Chartwell nice finish to the year I was just wondering if you could share your revenue expectation for 2021 for that vertical and what the drivers would be.
Yes.
Youre going to Youre going to see there clearly is the.
Is the fact that their distribution network continues to perform they are credible investment performance.
Most of the flows that we reflected tia in the present presentation.
Came into our <unk>.
Short duration high yield product and also the.
The value products that we have the havent have in place at the.
At the company. So we anticipate a very robust year there based on.
Performance the quality of the distribution network and the client base that we've been able to establish both on the retail and the institutional side. If you look at the retail side of the business. Its now over 20% of the assets and it was.
Immaterial when we acquired the company in 2000.
14, and you look at the institutional side of the business and it continues to grow pretty handily that $115 million that I mentioned.
We will be should be converted over in the next 60 days and come into this.
This quarter.
Russell just to put some numbers behind the themes of Jim shared with you Chartwell was able to reduce our expenses by 12% in 2020.
And at the same time they are net income in 2020 was up 15% year over year.
Their run rate revenue right now is on pace to be about $36 million for 'twenty. One so they had a great 2020, and they are set up for a great 21.
Okay.
Jim David Thank you both for that and then just for my final question, hoping you could talk a little bit about trends within your commercial portfolios, both C&I and CRE and what drivers of growth for 2021 would be there. Thank you.
Yes, Thanks Ross.
I think if we look at what we were able to do in 'twenty on to roll that forward in 'twenty, one we'd be pretty happy, particularly the second half of that so.
On the C&I side we.
We would probably continue to see.
A significant portion of the the growth driven by equipment Finance and fund finance and these are aware agile products growing industry growing demand for we can engage pretty quickly and use our expertise in networks to engage.
Engage with clients certainly we want to be there to continue to grow our.
Fundamental.
C&I business as well I think it's really going to be around finding when people don't want to focus on.
Yes, making a transition on when they're comfortable to do that but in terms of our clients by the way I mean again I think Jim mentioned it in his script I mean, we've been inspired and just really impressed with how our commercial clients of manage their businesses as well as the real estate.
Development. So I think that there is certainly significant opportunities with current existing portfolio to grow along with our clients as well as we come out of this so we're excited by those three of those are probably the three primary drivers.
On the commercial real estate side.
We're still very excited about the opportunities that our key clients have in the geographies and the markets.
And again that includes sort of all of the Ohio.
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and some contiguous states so.
As we work with are known clients or non.
Our known prospects so it's a pretty.
<unk> of group of.
People that we work with certainly sponsored driven.
They are they are liquid and they're.
It's finding significant opportunities in this environment.
Asset classes of our loan types.
Pretty types of probably similar to what youre going to see other places and we continue to focus on.
On the industrial flex.
Multifamily and we might see some.
Yes.
Opportunistic investments for for our clients in other places, but we're fundamentally engage with them on the fundamentally new business I mean, the good the other good part of us.
We're really committed to keeping the the loans that we have from our <unk>.
Refinance perspective, and continue to keep adding the portfolio. So the activity we need to generate in 'twenty, one even though we are seeing it being a more competitive environment in 'twenty, we're still optimistic that we can minimize our our payoffs and.
We're more growth falls to the net side, so that's where we're going on.
You'll be able to have strong growth in 2021.
Yes.
This concludes our question and answer session I would like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Getz for closing remarks.
Thank you very much for your continued interest in Tristate capital on your participation today.
Look forward to updating you on our first quarter results in April have a great day.
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