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The funds we advised through our External Investment Manager continued to experience favorable performance in the fourth quarter, resulting in significant incentive fee income for our asset management business for the ninth consecutive quarter and, together with our recurring managementfees, a significant contribution to our net investment income.
We'll also provide an update on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. Net asset value, or NAV -- or NAV, increased by $0.77 per share or 2.6% times and 2.1
reflecting our lower volume and lower average sales price leverage. The Hopper is a comprehensive suite of systems and procedures used to operate and manage the acquisition, financing, and development of land assets at scale, designed and refined by Lennar over the past 20 years. They were a natural external manager.
PGIM, our global investment manager had higher asset managementfees, driven by favorable investment performance, contributions from the Deerpath Capital acquisition and market appreciation. It's looking at opportunities for flow or new sales financing, as well as third-party blocks.
And since becoming a public company, we have had 13 consecutive quarters of managementfee and FRE growth, highlighting both the stability and strength of our business. Managementfees are up 21% and 92% of these managementfees are from permanent capital vehicles. AUM not-yet-paying fees was $15.9
We reported another strong quarter of results for Blue Owl this morning with 12 straight quarters in consecutive managementfee and FRE growth since we've been a public company. In direct lending, for instance, we provide financing solutions to sponsors for their portfolio companies. Thank you very much, Ann.
I'll also provide updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates.
We're also providing updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. After which, we'll be happy to take your questions.
Importantly, private credit markets are expanding rapidly beyond financing M&A, and we're seeing a dramatic increase in demand for all forms of investment-grade private credit, including from many of the largest insurance companies and institutions in the world. Fee-related earnings were $1.2 How much is driven by placement fees?
By using proceeds from equity and debt financings, as well as cash flows from our operations, we strategically accumulate bitcoin and advocate for its role as digital capital. We leverage our development capabilities to explore innovation and bitcoin applications, integrating analytics expertise with our commitment to digital asset growth.
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We're also providing updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. As of today, I would characterize our lower middle market investment pipeline as above average.
These spreads are based on our short-term nominal cost of capital that measures the year-one dilution from utilizing external capital and excess free cash flow on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume. Our leverage, as measured by net debt to annualized pro forma adjusted EBITDA was a healthy 5.4
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Just the assets under managementfees. Brian Feroldi: If a company is actually generating a break-even profit on the bottom line and is no longer dependent on investors and bankers to finance themselves, revenue growth is often very high here. Froglet or in business terms, operating leverage.
During this call, certain comments and statements we make may be deemed forward-looking statements within the meaning prescribed by the securities laws, including statements related to the future performance of our portfolio, our pipeline of potential acquisitions and other investments, future dividends and financing activities. Good morning.
Revenues benefited from a stronger gain on sale margin compared to the same quarter last year due to the mix of transaction activity that was weighted more heavily toward agency financing volume this quarter. We are leveraging our data and technology to understand those deals, meet with those customers, and win their business.
Asset & Wealth Management reported net income of $1 billion with pre-tax margin of 28%. Excluding net investment valuation gains in the prior year, revenue was up 5% driven by higher managementfees on strong net inflows and higher average market levels, partially offset by lower NII due to deposit margin compression.
As a 27-year veteran of Prudential, Yanela is a seasoned executive who brings a deep understanding of our business and industry as well as significant finance, operations, and leadership experience. PGIM, our global investment manager, had lower other related revenues driven by lower incentive fees and agency income, and higher expenses.
These flows reinforce the benefits of our large and strategic global client relationships and the power of our mutually reinforcing business system to grow our asset managementfees. Additionally, higher incentive fees and seed and co-investment income resulted in an increase in other related revenues.
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In the first quarter, we announced the launch of Sculptor Loan Financing Partners, the firm's first captive CLO equity investment platform. So, in other words, as we grow our CLO business and we create managementfees for Sculptor or we make investments in other things, whether it would be alongside Sculptor or actually in Sculptor.
But you mentioned their equities trading, which was really strong, their investment banking fee growth, which was 29% year over year, which came from a very low bar, but now more companies are going public, more M&A activities happening, and the banks are a big beneficiary of that. Ricky Mulvey: Just so I'm setting the table a little bit.
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million at the end of the third quarter with net leverage of about 1.5x. It's fully functional in everything we're just doing a lot of financing enhancements and one-off. We ended the quarter with $68.7 million of cash. Inventory at the end of the quarter totaled $396.9 Total debt was $429.3 Thank you for sneaking me in.
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