ABACUS GROUP — Capital/Financing Update 2013

Nov 17, 2013

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ASX Market Announcements ASX Limited Level 4, Exchange Centre 20 Bridge Street SYDNEY NSW 2000

18 November 2013

Notice under sections 708A(5)(e) and 1012DA(5)(e) of the Corporations Act 2001

This notice is given by Abacus Group Holdings Limited (ABN 31 080 604 619) ( AGHL ), Abacus Group Projects Limited (ABN 11 104 066 104) ( AGPL ), Abacus Storage Operations Limited (ABN 32 112 457 075) ( ASOL ) and Abacus Funds Management Limited (ABN 66 007 415 590) ( AFML ) in its capacity as responsible entity of the Abacus Income Trust (ARSN 104 934 287) and the Abacus Trust (ARSN 096 572 128), and Abacus Storage Funds Management Limited (ABN 66 007 415 590) ( ASFM ) as responsible entity of the Abacus Storage Property Trust (ARSN 111 629 559) (together with the Abacus Income Trust and the Abacus Trust, the Trusts ) (all entities collectively, Abacus Property Group ) under sections 708A(5)(e) and 1012DA(5)(e) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Corporations Act ).

Abacus Property Group has today issued 33,482,143 fully paid stapled securities ( New Securities ) to existing and new institutional and sophisticated investors pursuant to a placement, the results of which were announced to ASX on 12 November 2013. The New Securities comprise new fully paid ordinary shares in AGHL, AGPL and ASOL and new fully paid units in each of the Trusts, each of which will be stapled together on a one-for-one basis in accordance with the constitutions of AGHL, AGPL, ASOL and the Trusts. Abacus Property Group advises that:

• (a) the New Securities were issued without disclosure to investors under Part 6D.2 of the Corporations Act and without a Product Disclosure Statement for the New Securities being prepared under Division 2 of Part 7.9 of the Corporations Act;

• (b) this notice is being given under paragraphs 708A(5)(e) and 1012DA(5)(e) of the Corporations Act;

• (c) as a disclosing entity, Abacus Property Group is subject to regular reporting and disclosure obligations;

• (d) as at the date of this notice, Abacus Property Group has complied with:

  • (1) the provisions of Chapter 2M of the Act as they apply to each of AGHL, AGPL, ASOL and the Trusts respectively; and

  • (2) section 674 of the Corporations Act as it applies to each of AGHL, AGPL, ASOL and the Trusts respectively; and

• (e) as at the date of this notice, there is no excluded information of the type referred to in subsections 708A(7), 708A(8), 1012DA(7) and 1012DA(8) of the Corporations Act

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Ellis Varejes

Company Secretary

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