John F. Barry III – Exec. Chairman Mr. M. Grier Eliasek – Pres, Chief Operating Officer Mr. W. Montgomery Cook – Managing Director Mr. William E. Vastardis – Chief Financial Officer Mr. John S. Hopely – Investment Personnel

Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. Robert Dodd – Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc. Robert Carlson - Janney Montgomery Scott David Fried - Fried Asset Management Mr. Gustave – Independent Investor

Hello and welcome to the Prospect Capital Second Fiscal Quarter Earnings Release. All participants will be in Listen Only mode. There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions at the end of today’s presentation. (Operator Instructions) John F. Barry III: Joining me in the call today are Grier Eliasek, our President and COO, Bill Vastardis our CFO, and Robert Kleinman, our SVP of Finance, making his maiden. Rob, thank you. Before we begin, Bill will review a few legal matters.

Forward-looking statement within the meaning of the securities Law. All such statements are intended to be subject to Safe Harbor Protection. Actual outcomes and results could differ materially from those forecasts due to the impact of many factors. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking unless required by law. For additional disclosure, VR earnings press release and our 10-Q filed previously. Now, I will turn the call back over to John. John F. Barry III: Our net investment income for the second fiscal quarter adjusted for nonrecurring items was $11.1 million or 48 cents per weighted average number of shares for the quarter, an increase of approximately 146% and 45% from the prior year-over-year quarter on dollars and per share basis respectively. We estimated our net investment income for the current Third Fiscal Quarter, ended March 31, will be $0.45 to $0.53 per share. We expect to announce our Third Fiscal Quarter dividend in March. Now, Grier Eliasek comment on our investment activity.

On December 31, the fair value of our portfolio was approximately $440 million and 32 long-term portfolio companies. As of December 31, our portfolio generated current yield of 15.3% across all of our long-term debt and equity including dividend, net profit interest, and realty income. Last quarter, we completed seven new investments which consisted of Resco, Unitech, Maverick, Shears, Qualitest, Deb Shops, IEC, and ARS, as well as follow on investments and existing portfolios totaling approximately $121 million. This was the record investment quarter for us. Additionally, we monetized two positions, CIE and Advantage for a higher grade of $9.1 million in principal proceeds, not including interest payments. As of today, we now have 32 portfolio companies aggregating approximately $440 million of assets calculated as of December 31 investment portfolio, plus additional investments in every payment. On December, we announced that we engage RBC’s Financial Adviser to explore strategic alternative including a potential sale of our largest 100% control investment Gas Solutions, a midstream gathering and processing business in East Texas. Gas solutions is currently generating approximately $26.5 million of adjusted EBITDA as an annualize run rate. We expect to conclude that process over the next few months and hope to see a significant growth in shareholder value. Currently, we are pleased with the reward to risk characteristics of potential transactions under evaluation. With the retreat of credit providers in the marketplace, even with the drop in LIBOR, we are seeing diminished competition and attractive spreads across all of our direct corporate lending, sponsor and finance, and single-stock buyout investment strategies. The vast bulk of our portfolio is at a fixed-rate loan or flowing rate loans with a fixed flow as a protection against LIBOR reductions. We expect an active calendar year 2008 after a calendar year 2007, with approximately twice the investment pays over the prior year.

On December 31, borrowings under our credit facility stood at approximately $107 million. We are currently in discussion to increase the size of our $200 million facility to at least $400 million in Size. On October 17, we priced a secondary offering of 3.5 million shares of common stock at $16.34 per share, raising $57.2 million in gross proceeds. On November 13, the underwriters exercised the over-allotment option raising an additional $3.3 million in gross proceeds when 0.2 million shares of common stock were issued. John F. Barry III: We can now answer any questions.

Our fist question, I believe, comes from Robert Dodd at Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc. Robert Dodd – Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc.: Could you go over the nonrecurring expenses that you talked about? I assume that it is with the legal side. Then, could you tell us what happened with CIE last quarter is carried at a cost and there did not seem to be any issues with. In this quarter, it was written down and sold. Thirdly, on Gas Solutions, could you give us any more color about what is going on there in terms of the number of, if you can disclose that, indication of indications of interest etc? John F. Barry III: I will start with the two items that I will cover and Bill Vastardis will cover the expense items. In the case of CIE, that is an ethanol facility in Southern Illinois that has been under construction for some time. We were not fully aware of the difficulties that were being generated there, and the fundamental problem being that Lergy which is the contractor, was that odds with the management. Once they started fighting, it created pressure elsewhere in the system including, with respect to the farmers’ willingness to live up to their subordination obligations under the corn delivery agreements. What we discovered was the situation rapidly unraveled and so, we were part of the process of trying to get everybody back to the table and in our view, act reasonably and complete the plant, which did not work. And, when that did not work, we put our position up for sale. Even though it was after the bankruptcy, we were able to get, I think, 65 cents on the dollar, right, Grier? Mr. M. Grier Eliasek: Correct. John F. Barry III: So, that is the story there. We seem to have gotten out ahead of bunch of other people who took even bigger loses. With respect to gas solutions and the sale of energy, we can not comment in detail on exactly where those processes stand because, of course, they are fluid. People are looking at gas solutions at the facility. They are reviewing materials. We do not have any bids yet. We do not expect any for a while. We expect that to proceed over the next few weeks and possibly maybe a month or two. We are not able to predict exactly how quickly these things go. In the case of energy, it is moving along more slowly than gas solutions in part because the company just purchased and merged with Dynafab. Therefore, they have had to take some time to get their numbers in order. Is that adequate on those two questions, Robert? Robert Dodd – Morgan, Keegan & Company, Inc.: Just on gas solutions, would you be expecting anything to be done before the end of this quarter or will we be looking at next quarter? John F. Barry III: Well, it is hard to predict the future particularly when it is in the hands of other actors. Looking at this quarter, we are halfway through February. We are talking 45 days. I think it is reasonable to expect that we will know an often lot more by the end of March. I do not think it is a reasonable expectation to think that we would have closed on the transaction. Typically, as I am sure, everybody in this phone call knows that you go out with materials. People come back with indicative bits. Then, there are some back and forth with the top X, Y, Z percent of those indicative bids. They come back again. The flock is thinned. You get down to four or five people that you are interested in talking to, and the process does take time. I just do not know. I am not seeing any processes conclude in 60 days. I have seen them, it takes six months. Now, Bill will comment on expenses.

With respect to the nonrecurring items for this quarter, as we mentioned in the previous quarter, there is a case being handled through the arbitration process and there were some additional cost to this quarter related to that back at the large majority of the nonrecurring that relates to that. And of course, we adjusted that expense for the performance of the impact and the net is what we lift in our earnings release. John F. Barry III: Thanks Robert, did that answered your question? Robert, we hope we answered your question adequately, did we?

Our next question comes from James Bellessa at D.A. Davidson & Co. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: I am looking at these losses that you realized, and if I heard you right, you took that 65 cents on the dollar for CIE. Is that $2.8 million loss than if you have a cost basis of $8 million, is that how you calculate that? John F. Barry III: That is very close. It is about $2.9 million. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: On Advantage Oil Field Group, you said that had $18.6 million of total realized losses in the quarter and so, the bulk of the losses evidently came from AOG. John F. Barry III: Correct. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: But, I can not track down the numbers precisely and so, just see if you have any help there. John F. Barry III: Yes, let me help you with that. We had that on our books for about $10.6, 930, and we took a further, deducted realization of $6.7 million in the past quarter. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: How do you get to the total of $18.6 million? John F. Barry III: That is the original cost. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: And so, you have gone from unrealized losses to realized losses, does that abolish to the other, your report unrealized losses and gains during the period? Does that get reduced, the amount of unrealized losses get reduced during the quarter when you take the loss, actually, realize the losses, what happens?

That is correct. The AOG unrealized loss from the previous quarter or the accumulative unrealized loss was converted to realize loss. Therefore, while we had approximately $15 million in realized losses for the quarter on AOG, there was an increase of unrealized appreciation of approximately $8 million which was how we helped, so far, we had written it down. That $8 million helped us during the quarter with our positive unrealized appreciation. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: And that turned out to be just about $5 million so you must have had depreciations occurring.

On other security, that is correct. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: And you identified those in the queue by saying those were in Genesis, Whymore, and WECO.

Correct. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: And you want to comment on any of those or…

Sure, I am happy to comment on those since I spend a fair amount of time on them. They are my “babies” now. In the case of Genesis, Genesis is profitable more days than that which is an improvement from where we were, and that is just based off of 2007 pricing going to early 2008 pricing which is yet to reflect the significant run up in coal prices. Whymore has been more profitable more often than Genesis. Whymore also has yet to reprise its coal supply agreements and we are looking at what we can do to get something more like the $70.00 a ton that people are now quite suddenly paying. The coal prices have gone up to 50% over what time period? James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Over the last three months.

So, we have struggled with these two companies and we have struggled on a fundamental basis to get them to be profitable with the old pricing we have encountered every conceivable surprise and difficulty, including engineering reports overstating how much coal, how much ash is there, the size of the partings. Honestly, every conceivable thing. If you want a training in fixing companies, this is where you would be sent. So, we have maintained these companies cash flow breakeven to now positive, and we have told them we are not giving them any more money. We hope that will stick, and we are looking to see the improved situation and at the way it continue to improve. Also, we continue to look at other properties and we have other opportunities that are potentially synergistic with those two. We are not giving up and we still have them on the books although severely written down. And, every time we give them any more money, that is immediately written off as well. Hopefully that is behind us. In the case of WECO, WECO also has been at test of patience in that all of the predictions by then engineers and by the consultants, how quickly that would be amortizing debt and paying dividends have not come to past. But, we have ***** approached the point where we can see exactly what we need to do instead of having a punch list of 100 things to do. We are now down two, three, or four and what they are is, this weekend, the boiler pre-feed water heater is being changed over so that we will more often be above 20 megawatts than below 20 megawatts. That is important. Number two, while we have in front of us expenditure for the condensers, we need to modernize the condensers there. And if we do that, we think we will be exceeding 21 megawatts, maybe not every second everyday, basis has been on a fairly consistent basis. The third thing we need to do is have our average price of wood be $34.00 per green pan. It is currently in the market at $34.00 per green pan but we need to have our own in-house wood supply operation so that we are not perceived as being vulnerable to all the wood suppliers up there that we can actually harvest our own wood and the problem we have had to date is that our own wood operation has not been as efficient as the people in the marketplace. The pros have been doing this for years and years, which is not that surprising. We revamp the wood operation in the last month and we have gotten our prices down. I think last, it was 44 bucks right, Grier? Mr. M. Grier Eliasek: Yes.

If it is a significant decrease from where we were. So, when we look at the grids that we have received our engineer, they show 21 megawatts, $34 fuel, and a significant EBITDA, a few of the exact number is. That is where we are trying to get. It has taken at least a year longer that we were led to believe but every month, we make this turn of progress. Is that responsive, Jim? James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Thank you very much. On the queue, you have a weighted average borrowings, I had not noticed it before. Is this the first time I am showing up and if it is the first time, is there a historical chart or table that can be provided to see what the average weighted borrowings were per quarter?

Yes, we did this at this new for the first time and we will in the future queues put a table in for comparison purposes. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Is there something for us to help and know what the average weighted borrowings were before the past quarters or do we have to wait for them to be reported in the future?

I do not have that information here with me today. Unfortunately, you will have to wait. We do show a comparison from Q2 of ’08 versus Q2 of ’07. John F. Barry III: As you know, we have run our business with almost no leverage historically or diminished leverage as a bridging to build the equity-based of the company and we are only now reaching a critical size and mass allowing us to have long-term leverage outstanding as a means of driving the dividend and we are just now entering that positive pace of our business which we hope and believe will be a significant dividend driver going forward. So, we wanted to have this weighted average number to be helpful in a going-forward basis. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: In that regard, you talked about having about $100 million line of credit to see if the credit facility is $107 million in the balance sheet, and your cash position was a little over $26 million. Why did you not have any cash? John F. Barry III: Well, we maintain cash liquidity at all times, of course it is a balancing act between appropriate liquidity to run the business on a day to day basis and not excess liquidity a drag on yield. There will be some timing differences which might make that cash number move up or down based on where we are in a particular month. For example, we take money out of the special purpose vehicle where our credit facility are non-recourse secured credit facility for Prospect Capital, LLC - Prospect Capital Corporation which is the borrower for the - Bank facility. We take distributions out of that once per month. So, there will be timing differences which might have a slightly larger cash number depending upon what part of the month we are in. But in general, our goal is to strike the right balance between appropriate short short-term liquidity in longer term. Of course, just liquidity in general, we have plenty of liquidity as a company, both to make new investments, as well as to run the business on a day by day basis. We also have that capital to, at the end of that quarter, of course, in part to pay the dividend that was paid something like a week later. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Okay. I have not heard of any new investments that you made in this quarter, the March quarter yet. So, after paying that dividend that you paid down some of your credit facility or did you keep the facility where it was and maintain your cash position? John F. Barry III: Again, we used some of that for the dividend which I think it is under $10 million keeper take, so we maintained some cash for other uses. We have not made a significant number of long-term investments in the last 30 or so days but that is not at all indicative of the opportunity set that we have in front of us right now which were very happy with. We are looking at array of opportunities for sorting through them at the buyer’s market in a number of ways and we are making sure we a high-grading this opportunities to select the absolute best and of course, new closings in this business can be monthly rehab. No closings in a particular period and then you will have three or five closed at ounce. So, we have a very active pipeline and expect this to be inactive over the year in general. John F. Barry III: The sense that we have on some of the transactions that we are being sold is the price gets better the slower we move and we have seen continued reprising in this indicative loan market, we have seen continued reprising in the sponsor market, and we have seen continuing reprising in the market in which we invest. So, as we track our feed on some of these deals, what we find is the pricing improves and frankly, our time to look at them improves also. What we do not want to be doing is investing in front of a reprising and so far, we have been able to avoid the brunt of that.

We have also made an investment, to follow investment deep down on one of our existing portfolio companies for the last day of the quarter of approximately $6 billion, some of the cash receives for that as well. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Okay. Thank on that. [Audio Break] the pace of investment this year will be twice perhaps the last year’s. Are you talking about calendar year there when you say years?

Yes. I was quoting calendar years. We put out about $150 approximately in calendar year 2006 and in calendar year 2007. It was approximately twice closer to $300 million in aggregate. If you annualize the $120 million that was invested in the last quarter, that points towards about $500 million pays which is an uptake. We are not promising that exact pays to be some deviations because - opportunity driven in all cases, but I think that is a reflection of broadening our reach. It is a reflection of having a larger team to capitalize in opportunities. It is a reflection of the opportunities that we are seeing in the marketplace. James Bellessa – D.A. Davidson & Co.: Let us just suppose you are able to find half of that amount, $250 million, did you say that you are trying to get your credit facility expanded? Is that what I heard?

We are currently working on at least doubling the sides of our existing facility from $200 million to $400 million. We will have additional disclosure if that progresses. Those are immediate processes. They take time and effort to achieve, but we are happy to have a supportive lender and look forward to growing our facility. That is an - 75 facility which at today’s LIBOR is approximately 5% money. We are interested in prudently maximizing that, we are limited to not more than 1:1 leverage. And now, as we continue to build up our equity base, filed up our asset, capital base, our goal is to use that diversity to get closer to 1:1 and drive the dividend further. John F. Barry III: As you know, Jim, Ravo is either the only or one of the only financial institutions out there that triple-A-rated and we view our relationship with the people there as a very valuable asset for the company.

Our next question comes from Henry Coffey at Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: In going through this, I certainly understand how the numbers work but I want to get them tied down. With Avantage, what was the original carrying value of that loan and how much did you write down and of course, the same question for Central. John F. Barry III: 18.6 original costs carried in our books, 930… Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: No, 18.6 was the original cost, not the value. John F. Barry III: Correct, carried on our books, 930 at 10.6, written down by approximately 6.7. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: Central Illinois is the same? John F. Barry III: Central Illinois’ original cost, eight on our books for 8 to 930, written down 2.9. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: Okay, and then we asked you about the rest of the realized losses, you started talking about Genesis and WECO, filling in the remaining of almost $10 million of realized losses. John F. Barry III: Henry, there were no other realize losses, 2.9. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: Net realized losses all at investments of $18.6 million, is that figure correct? John F. Barry III: That is correct. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: So, you wrote AOG down by 6.7? This is what I am trying to get to. I am trying to allocate that 18.6 and obviously 6.7, 2.9 do not equal 18. John F. Barry III: Well, if we go through the accounting. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: Okay. What does this focus on the realized losses from? John F. Barry III: The realized losses were entirely those two, $2.9 million of it was CIE, and the rest was AOG.

[Audio Break] Henry is that there has been a reversal where you add back prior unrealized depreciation that has already been taken in prior quarter and had shown ****it is just a movement of categories from what it has already been written. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: In the realized loss column, you had previous realized losses? I am just looking at the 18.6.

Henry, they moved from unrealized to the realized category. So, you are seeing kind of accumulative number there on the realized side. It includes prior quarters and then unrealized has to compensate for something that we had already taken a mark in prior… Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: I understand the unrealized portion, I am just trying to figure out, so you lost $3 million on CIE and then the other $50 million was written down on Advantage, is that the way to understand it?

On accumulative basis which is approximately six to seven of it, we had already taken… Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: I am not paying attention to that. Okay, I got it done. The next question is of course, you talked a little bit about what is going with Gas Solutions, I assume it is the same process with NRG.

Yes, it is. As I said, Henry, the energy process is moving more slowly because NRG purchased and merged Dynafab into NRG which requires… Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: Was Dynafab one of your companies or one of a new company?

It was a new company. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: In the past, you sort of given us LTM EBITDA information on both, can you give us that and update that and to include the Dynafab number.

For Gas Solutions, the run rate which is approximately in the last quarter annualized is about 26.5. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: What is that in an LTM basis?

ATMI, I believe, is approximately closer to about $20 million. The 26 - run rate is up from just under 25 a couple of months ago. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: Right, I remember that.

Energy, I do not have at my fingertips, Henry. That one is a step slower because of the integration of the acquisition that had been done. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: And Dynafab was added at the EBITDA?

Yes. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: On a historical basis not on a…

Yes, it was a follow on acquisition done, something like a three times multiple. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: When was that done?

We had a press release about that last quarter. I believe it was on October if I am not mistaken. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: Obviously, you can not sit down and show us your pitch book and give us full list of all the people that you have talked to, and company notes and the like. Can you give us some expectation, sense of what your expectations are in terms of how these businesses should be valued? At what point would you just walk away from the sales process?

Henry, I think I had answered the question but I will try again. We do not have an opinion that is any different from what is in our financials and in the evaluations that we go through each quarter. We are going through a process that will possibly lead to a realization with either none of those businesses, both of those businesses, more than both of those businesses, one of them. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: So, do you think that when you sell it, the combined value for Gas Solutions or the total enterprise value would be $47.5 million plus whatever bank that is out there?

I am not making any prediction. Where is the $47.5 million coming from? Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: It is on page 8 of your 10 queue.

Look, we go through it, we discuss at length in prior quarters… Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: Right, I know. I am just trying to get that.

Henry, we can not be making predictions about the future. We are very careful running a full process here. We may have potential interested buyers on this phone call. Suffice to say, we are looking to maximize shareholder value. I would not necessarily say where the asset happens to be, in particular on our books, is a reflection of where we would or we are not. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: I am just trying to get your sense of how large a potential there between what is on the books and what you are likely to get. Is it really a business that is worth 10 or 12 times EBITDA? You are obviously valuing it at four or five, or is it a business that you are valuing at four of five, but it is really worth five or six times EBITDA.

We are not making any predictions. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc: market and lots of regulatory noise?:

Henry, all the finances and businesses payday lenders and alike, regional is a business pay-day lenders and alike, regional is a business for you to loan to a private equity sponsor and this business is striving, as you can imagine, with the pull back in credit ranging from, mortgagers, to credit cards, to sort of you name it, that credit crunch has opened up a wide array of additional business in a market place and installment lending business that has not changed its underwriting standards in decades and as you know these are companies that are spin offs and virtually as the people are from world except in Southern Greenbelt, South Carolina which has been using same standards in the early 80’s.: Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: They have not gotten caught up and in the credit cycle their customers are holing up?:

They are doing very well, because they have always been cash flow based, very, very different from artificial access inflation associated with that.: Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: What were currently saying, December versus where they were a year ago, you do not have to give this to obviously the absolute number but what were the trends like?:

You know, I do not have the specific numbers in my fingertips and I have to careful that the company we do not control this specific disclosure like that on but, I have got to say we are happy on how the company is doing.: Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: And nothing on the regulatory front?:

Nothing, Henry well, I would tell you the company has a budget and a forecast and since we made our investment, I think every month or every quarter, since then they have been above forecast with the exception of either one month or one quarter and I think that was something involving one particular office where there was some deep allocations or something like that.: Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: But I mean it is a great company and so they are continuing to kind of hold up in the midst of all these as what you are telling me, you are right.

We are not getting any news that there is any problem there and as you know, they are not lending against homes. Henry Coffey – Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.: Yes, I know what they do with it, but you are seeing any spill down into those subnets of lending then holding up nicely.

We are not and we have I think 40% equity underneath this and that deal which would bear any lumps should that happen, which is not happening. Well, I think also as you know, if you take the numbers back, these companies do somewhat better in recessions relative to the rest of financial services.

Our next question comes from Robert Dodd at Morgan, Keegan. Robert Dodd – Morgan, Keegan: Hi guys, turning back to the credit facility, are we talking about a true revolving credit facility this time or another, I lack of a better term, a bucket list where you have to carefully allocate and restricts your ability to deploy capital in some cases?

Yes and yes, I mean, we have a revolver right now and that will continue, the three-year revolver and going forward we might have a four-year revolver. Even when we had it non balance sheet, non securitized conduit facility previously before this $200-million existing facility to be closed in June, we are still subject to various covenants, diversification concentration limits and alike. So I think that pretty comes with the territory. We do not mind that because we like having diversified tool anyways as risk management strategy, but I think what will happen is as the capital base of the business grows.: Our ability to those concentration limits will be easier not harder because the larger base will get some of those buckets lifted and will be at a close $25 million deal without a $5 million deduct, for example here or there, which happens from time to time. Folks can see all of our concentration limits. Sometimes they can be larger and some they are limited in our existing facility. So I think that flexibility will increase along with scale. Robbery will be a kin of a two-for-one benefit.:

(Operator Instructions) Our next question comes from Robert Carlson at Janney Montgomery Scott.: Robert Carlson - Janney Montgomery Scott: Just a real quick question regarding interest rates since it has come down so dramatically. Does that impede you from the getting the return of its going forward and also to the people we’ve went to have the ability to refinance these ones.:

Well, two things we would say. The first one is that we are not lowering our return expectations from these loans but we are increasing our mental note for the possibility of defaults and lower recoveries. So as rates go down we are not following them because we are thinking of recession. There is more possibility of difficulty for these companies.’: Number two, we have a portfolio that is mostly has either fix rated loans or fix rated floors so that we will continue to earn absolutely terms that we need to earn in order to pay the dividend.: Number three, can they refinance? They can refinance in the vast majority of our loans. To refinance requires the payment of a so called yield maintenance premium which makes us whole in part for some of the lost earnings that we do with somebody who refinances before maturity, clear?: Robert Carlson - Janney Montgomery Scott: Yes, we have basically to more than compensate for LIBOR drops and allotted the market, which is a big positive for us and we are looking at a lot of portfolios. We are looking at floating rates of market now, which is a various market and we are pricing deals based on one percent LIBOR just looking at the bottom of point to the lowest downturn, so the priced deals on that basis, for many periods that are a greater LIBOR than that, either on the front end or in the backend of any said loosening or tightening strategy. So we are always mindful of yield around here and focus our strategies accordingly.:

Our next question comes from David Fried of Fried Asset Management.: David Fried - Fried Asset Management: Good morning gentlemen, the process to get on the cloths a little bit rough and I got on just about a minute before your guys said “Are there any questions, so forgive us if you have covered it?” Make a comment about the dividend for the coming year.:

David, we did not comment on the dividend and typically do not provide a projection of the dividend, it is not certainly not out of full year, but we do attempt to do to give people some visibility into the future is to provide the investment income guidance and we have done so in our press release, there was a file this morning in which John had some excerpted comments on at being in the call. And our existing, on March quarter that we are in, we give ranges that is $0.45 to $0.53 that was a range with an uptake from our guidance range of last quarter up $0.43 to $0.49 and we came it at $0.48 adjusted, $0.46 unadjusted in the December quarter. We will be announcing our dividend for March in the coming quarters.: I will also point out that as a business development company, we need to distribute at least 90% of our income and short term capital gains over the course of the tax year and then there is a spill back period after the tax year gets complicated but suffice to say that we had at least a 90% - to maintain our tax event status and then there is some element of further tax optimization beyond that with a smaller 4% excise tax, one tries to minimize that you can, like going to 98% distribution. So hopefully the distribution requirements and the guidance give you some indication. We have increased the dividends 13 consecutive quarters and our objective is to continue doing that, we are not saying that is an absolute promise on this call, but that is certainly our objective.: John F. Barry III: David this is John, these two policies that we try very hard to adhere to, they could perhaps give you some guidance. One is that, we tried to pay our dividend only out of net investment income and in fact, I do not know, on the last 14 dividends, I think just a few pennies were not paid out of net investment income and if you look at the dividend that we have been paying and the net investment that we have been earning, the dividend is currently lagging the amount of the net investment income, which for us is a conservative technique of conservatism that we would like to keep a cushion in between the net investment income and the amount of the dividend but as Grier points out, at the end of the year we do have to be sure to have distributed really 98% of our net investment income.: The second policy that is important to us is to protect this dividend to that in every quarter we are able to at least pay this modest amount and we have done so with 13 consecutive quarters, we would like to keep that winning going as long as we can and so we evaluate the whole business. We will get far to the future as we can each time we raise the dividend because we know that in our mind of the permanent raise.:

Robert Dodd – Morgan, Keegan & Company: Just one more, in the dividend income in the quarter, can you give us some column where that came from and particularly how much did came from gas solutions? John F. Barry III: The dividend income in the quarter was $2.2 million. I believe gas solutions were about 1.6 and energy of $600,000.: You will see there that even where we have equity positions, they can often times be yield answers, but often times the yielded answers in our portfolio.:

(Operator Instructions) Our next question comes from Mr. Gustave and independent investor.: Mr. Gustave – Independent Investor: What percentage of portfolio is not performing the loans?:

When you say non-performing what specifically are you referring to?: Mr. Gustave – Independent Investor: In most, they show you a grade of from 1 to 5 and 1 to 4 and you know, we have 5% net gain, 70% as you know to receive full payment…:

We have approximately at least 1.1% of the portfolio non-accrual.:

At this time we shall have no further questions. Would you like to make any closing comments?: John F. Barry III: Thanks to all, time for lunch right? Bye.:

Thank you for attending that does conclude the conference you may now disconnect.: