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      "text": "I would like to touch on the management fee reduction we announced in December. First of all, the Erie Indemnity Company Board of Directors sees the management fee as a tool to balance the interest of the shareholders, of the Erie Indemnity Company with the policyholders of the exchange. Keep in mind the exchange assumes 94.5% of the total underwriting risk and is the only corporate customer of the Erie Indemnity Company. Given the strong revenues and earnings growth of the Erie Indemnity Company and the underwriting loses we are experiencing at the exchange, the Board opted this past December to reduce the management fee from 25 to 24. — Jeffrey Ludrof, Former President",
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