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FUTURE GENERATION AUSTRALIA LIMITED Net Asset Value 2015

Aug 13, 2015

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Net Asset Value

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As at 31 July 2015

Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report

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Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures

Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures
NTA before tax
115.77c*
NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains
114.91c
NTA after tax
115.00c

*Includes a provision of $3.23m (1.76 cents a share) in tax relating to FY2015. The above figures are not diluted for 181,424,187 options on issue with an exercise price of $1.10.

Future Generation Global IPO closes 28 August 2015

Future Generation Investment Company Limited (FGX) shareholders with a registered address in Australia or New Zealand are entitled to a $110m priority allocation in the Future Generation Global Investment Company Limited (FGG) initial public offering (FGG Offer).

FGG will be Australia’s first internationally focused listed investment company with the dual objectives of providing shareholders with diversified exposure to selected global equities and improving the lives of young Australians affected by mental illness.

FGG will invest its capital with prominent global fund managers who have agreed to forgo their management and performance fees. Each year, 1.0% of FGG’s NTA will be donated to selected Australian charities that operate in the mental health area. The FGG Board is aiming to raise up to $550 million in the initial public offering (IPO).

Portfolio

The portfolio continues to outperform the market despite challenging conditions. In July 2015 the FGX portfolio rose 4.7%, again outperforming the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index, which increased 4.2%. The allocation to the managers has been structured to provide a spread between three broad equity strategies: long equities, absolute bias, market neutral and cash. The company is currently 49.7% long equities, 23.2% absolute bias, 16.1% market neutral and 11.0% cash.

Fund manager Investment Strategy % of assets
Paradice Investment
Management
Large/Mid Cap Funds (split out below)
10.5%
Paradice Australian Equities Mid Cap Fund Long equities
5.4%
Paradice Large Cap Fund Long equities 5.1%
Bennelong Australian
Equities Partners
Bennelong Australian Equities Fund Long equities
10.2%
Regal Funds Management Regal Australian Long Short Equity Fund Long equities 10.1%
Wilson Asset Management
(International)
Wilson Asset Management Equity Fund Absolute bias
7.8%
Watermark Funds
Management
Watermark Absolute Return Fund Market neutral
7.4%
Eley Griffiths Group Eley Griffiths Group Small Companies Fund Long equities 7.2%*
Tribeca Investment Partners Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund Absolute bias 7.0%
Cooper Investors Cooper Investors Australian Equites Fund Long equities 5.3%
Optimal Fund Management
Australia
Optimal Australia Absolute Trust Market neutral
4.7%
Sandon Capital Sandon Capital Activist Fund Absolute bias
4.0%
Discovery Asset
Management
Discovery Australian Small Companies
Fund
Long equities
3.6%
LHC Capital LHC Capital Australia High Conviction Fund Absolute bias 3.0%
Bennelong Long Short
Equity Management
Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund Market neutral
2.7%
Smallco Investment
Manager
Smallco Broadcap Fund Long equities
2.6%
Lanyon Asset Management Lanyon Australian Value Fund Absolute bias 1.5%
Qato Capital Qato Capital Market Neutral L/S Fund Market neutral 1.4%
Cash and Term Deposits Cash 11.0%

Future Generation Investment Company Limited

Company Limited
ASX Code FGX
Established Sept 2014
Total assets
Market cap
$215.0m
$208.0m
Share price $1.13
Net assets per share (before tax)
Shares on issue
Options on issue
Management fees
$1.16
184,099,404
181,424,187
0.0%
Performance fees
Annual donation(% of NTA)
0.0%
1.0%

Investment objectives

  • Provide a stream of fully franked dividends

  • Achieve capital growth

  • Preserve shareholder capital

Company overview

Future Generation Investment Company Limited gives investors the opportunity to gain unprecedented access to a group of prominent Australian fund managers in a single investment vehicle and also support Australian children’s charities, with a focus on children at risk.

Experienced Board

Chairman

Jonathan Trollip

Founder and Director

Geoff Wilson

Directors

Paul Jensen Gabriel Radzyminski Kate Thorley David Leeton Scott Malcolm David Paradice

Investment Committee

Geoff Wilson, Gabriel Radzyminski and Matthew Kidman

Joint Company Secretaries Sarah Maddox/Mark Licciardo

Corporate Affairs James McNamara

*Distribution reinvested 1 July 2015

Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 97 063 935 553 Phone 02 9247 9202 I Fax 02 9247 6855 I [email protected] I www.futuregeninvest.com.au

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As at 31 July 2015

Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report

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Portfolio performance to 30 June 2015

During FY2015, the investment portfolio outperformed the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation by 3.2%. The portfolio rose 3.9% while the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation increased 0.8%. This was achieved with extremely low volatility as the standard deviation of the investment portfolio was 7.0% while the market was nearly double that at 13.8%. The portfolio delivered a strong risk adjusted return in its first nine months of operation.

Investment strategy allocation (% of assets)

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Cash
11.0%
Long equities
Absolute
Market neutral
bias Long equities
23.2% 49.7% Absolute bias
Cash
Market
neutral
16.1%
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Fund Managers
Charities
Service Providers
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Fund manager in focus: Bennelong Australian Equities Partners

About Bennelong Australian Equities Partners

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Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP) is a boutique fund manager focused on Australian equities. It was founded in 2008 in partnership with Bennelong Funds Management and it is based in Sydney. BAEP manages three Australian equities funds: the Bennelong Australian Equities Fund, the Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities Fund, and the Bennelong ex-20 Australian Equities Fund. BAEP manages over $4 billion on behalf of retail and institutional clients.

Our investment style

BAEP is a genuinely active fund manager with a fundamental approach to stock picking that is biased towards quality.

Our investment philosophy is to selectively invest:

  • in quality companies;

  • with strong long term growth prospects;

  • with the earnings strength to be able to meet or outperform expectations; and

  • where the shares are mispriced, typically because the market underestimates the company’s quality or growth outlook.

Our investment process is research-intensive and is based around an extensive program of company and industry engagement, as well as other proprietary field research. Our bottom-up stock picking is also supported by economic and quantitative analysis and insights. Ultimately we seek out those select opportunities where we believe that a company’s earnings and longer term prospects are more favourable than is commonly perceived by the market.

Our market outlook

The Australian equity market has been on the rise now for six years but we believe that sentiment is far from buoyant. To be sure, the overall market will likely struggle to repeat the strong returns of the past few years, but there is still the opportunity to earn decent returns. Valuations overall appear reasonable, especially when compared to bonds and other asset classes.

As at the end of July 2015, the market trades on approximately 16x consensus earnings forecasts for the current financial year, and sports a dividend yield of almost 5%. It will be necessary to invest selectively, given prospects differ quite markedly across industries and economies. Headwinds face the two largest sectors of the market, with resource stocks yet to fully reflect the step down in resource prices, and the banks facing the prospect of higher capital requirements and other prudential regulation.

The broader Australian economy remains sluggish but there are pockets of optimism. Examples include in industries such as healthcare, infrastructure and leisure, and in the economies of the dominant states of NSW and Victoria, as well as the economies of the US and even select European economies. The best opportunities will likely be those companies exposed to these pockets of strength, or that can otherwise invest to grow earnings through sluggish times. The earnings season in August will reveal more about the health of the companies that make up our stock market, although it is worth pointing out that earnings expectations have been lowered significantly over the past year.

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Designated charity in focus: Giant Steps

About Giant Steps

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Twenty years ago, Giant Steps started a school for 12 children with autism. Today Giant Steps Sydney supports 92 children with a primary diagnosis of autism and their families. The children range in ages from three years in Early Learning to 26 years in the Community College. Children and young adults with autism have great difficulty sharing emotions, communicating and they display challenging behaviours often putting themselves and those around them in physical danger.

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Giant Steps has had remarkable success teaching children with autism to communicate more effectively, integrating them into mainstream schools, helping them develop functional life skills and providing them the opportunity to reach their potential. The additional support offered at Giant Steps Sydney caters specifically to the needs of children with autism thereby enabling our children to achieve milestones previously thought unattainable.

Giant Steps – supporting children with autism

Last year, Giant Steps established the Llewellyn-Jones Medical Clinic. This is the first such program in the world. Doctors and Giant Steps teachers, therapists and psychologists meet with the child and the parents in the familiar setting of the school instead of in the “hostile” environment of the doctor’s surgery or a hospital. The outcomes for the children and their families have been tremendous.

It costs nearly $80,000 per year to support each student. Government funding covers approximately half of this. No fees are charged for children to attend the school. To maintain this, we need to raise approximately $40,000 per student each year through tax-deductible donations and fund-raising events. All the money donated to Giant Steps is used to provide direct services for our children. Salaries, training and teaching resources account for over 90% of costs.

Giant Steps and Future Generation Global

Giant Steps values the support of the shareholders and fund managers at FGX, which will go a long way towards helping us achieve this task.

Next year, Giant Steps plans to open a school in Melbourne. We have leased a property in Kew and are going through the process of getting accreditation from the Victorian Department of Education. We already have a long list of families wanting to send their children to the Melbourne school.

The support from FGX and its shareholders will make the Melbourne school a reality.

For more information on Giant Steps go to www.giantsteps.net.au

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