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FUTURE GENERATION AUSTRALIA LIMITED — Net Asset Value 2016
Apr 13, 2016
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Net Asset Value
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As at 31 March 2016
Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report
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Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures
The following NTA figures are before the 2.0 cents per share fully franked dividend due to be paid on 29 April 2016. The shares traded ex dividend on 13 April 2016.
| NTA before tax 114.95c |
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| NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains 115.04c* |
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| NTA after tax 114.96c* |
The above figures are not diluted for 160,918,154 options on issue with an exercise price of $1.10. During the month of March, 11,717,961 options were exercised. This had a diluting effect of 0.3 cents per share. *These figures are after the payment of $1.5m (0.75 cents per share) in tax during the month.
Portfolio
The investment portfolio has outperformed the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 13.3% in the 12 months to 31 March 2016 and by 10.6% in the financial year to date. The investment portfolio increased 2.0% during March while the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index increased 4.7%. The spread between the three broad equity strategies is currently 45.2% long equities, 22.0% absolute bias, 15.9% market neutral and 16.9% cash.
Future Generation Investment Company Limited
| Company Limited | |
|---|---|
| ASX Code | FGX |
| Established | Sept 2014 |
| Gross assets | $239.0m |
| Market cap | $232.4m |
| Share price Net assets per share (before tax) Shares on issue |
$1.135 $1.149 204,789,502 |
| Options on issue | 160,918,154 |
| Management fees Performance fees Annual donation(% of NTA) |
0.0% 0.0% 1.0% |
Investment objectives
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Provide a stream of fully franked dividends
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Achieve capital growth
| Fund manager | Investment | Strategy | % of assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paradice Investment | Large/Mid Cap Funds (split out below) | ||
| 9.4% | |||
| Paradice Australian Equities Mid Cap Fund |
Long equities | ||
| 5.2% | |||
| Paradice Large Cap Fund | Long equities | ||
| 4.2% | |||
| Bennelong Australian Equities Partners |
Bennelong Australian Equities Fund | Long equities | |
| 9.3% | |||
| Regal Funds Management | Regal Australian Long Short Equity Fund |
Long equities | |
| 8.8% | |||
| Wilson Asset Management (International) |
Wilson Asset Management Equity Fund |
Absolute bias | |
| 7.6% | |||
| Watermark Funds Management | Watermark Absolute Return Fund | Market neutral | |
| 7.3% | |||
| Eley Griffiths Group | Eley Griffiths Group Small Companies Fund |
Long equities | |
| 7.3% | |||
| Tribeca Investment Partners | Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund | Absolute bias | |
| 6.4% | |||
| Optimal Fund Management Australia |
Optimal Australia Absolute Trust | Market neutral | |
| 4.7% | |||
| Cooper Investors | Cooper Investors Australian Equities Fund |
Long equities | |
| 4.6% | |||
| Sandon Capital | Sandon Capital Activist Fund | Absolute bias | |
| 3.7% | |||
| Discovery Asset Management | Discovery Australian Small Companies Fund |
Long equities | |
| 3.3% | |||
| LHC Capital | LHC Capital Australia High Conviction Fund |
Absolute bias | |
| 3.0% | |||
| Bennelong Long Short Equity Management |
Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund | Market neutral | |
| 2.8% | |||
| Smallco Investment Manager | Smallco Broadcap Fund | Long equities | |
| 2.4% | |||
| Lanyon Asset Management | Lanyon Australian Value Fund | Absolute bias | |
| 1.4% | |||
| Qato Capital | Qato Capital Market Neutral L/S Fund |
Market neutral | |
| 1.1% | |||
| Cash and Term Deposits | Cash | ||
| 16.9% | |||
- 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.
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
Chief Executive Officer Louise Walsh
Company Secretary Mark Licciardo
Corporate Affairs James McNamara
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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Investment strategy allocation (% of assets)
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Cash
16.9%
Long equities
Market neutral
Long equities
Absolute bias 45.2% Absolute bias
22.0%
Cash
Market
neutral
15.9%
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Bonus Option Issue
The options issued on the 8 September 2014 as a result of the capital raising via the prospectus dated 7 July 2014, are exercisable at $1.10 and can be exercised at anytime on or before the 16 September 2016.
As at 31 March, 20,900,028 options had been exercised for a total consideration of $22,990,031, with a remaining balance of outstanding options being 160,918,154.
Key interim dividend dates
Ex date: 13 April 2016 Record date: 14 April 2016 Last election date for dividend reinvestment plan (DRP): 18 April 2016 Last election date for dividend donation plan (DDP): 18 April 2016 Payment date: 29 April 2016 Option expiry date: 16 September 2016
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Fund Managers
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Charities
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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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Fund manager in focus: Paradice Investment Management
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About Paradice Investment Management
Paradice Investment Management is a privately owned fund manager established in 1999 in Sydney by David Paradice. We have offices in Sydney, Denver and San Francisco. Our product range includes three distinct Australian Equity strategies (Large, Mid & Small Caps) and one Global Equity strategy- Global Mid Small caps and we currently manage over $9.4 billion in funds. Currently the Global Small Mid Cap and Australian Mid Cap fund are available for retail investors with Large Cap to be our next offering and likely to be live in May this year.
The business is made up of a highly experienced team of 29 people, with 17 investment staff. We have a strong focus on providing consistent performance outcomes for our clients with a strict focus on capacity management across all our products.
Our investment style
The Paradice Mid Cap Equities fund employs a “bottom-up” approach to investment.
We believe that equity markets are inefficient and therefore offer excellent investment opportunities over time. The inefficiencies arise due to excesses in investor emotion, a focus on short term investment horizons and consistent focus on one of the least important aspects of a company’s financial health – it’s profit and loss statement.
One of the most important aspects of investing is objectivity. It is therefore possible to benefit from changes in market inefficiencies by focussing on logical, ordered and objective investment decisions based on known facts.
We aim to buy shares which it believes are under-priced and expect to grow at rates greater than the market. Our strategy is to favour well-managed, good value companies that have significant growth opportunities through their comparative advantage. This comparative advantage can be via a combination of a better product or service, a more efficient organisational model, a favourable niche or a commanding leadership position within their industry. We believe a good business requires good products and services and good execution.
The key to identifying these investment opportunities lies in Paradice’s extensive insight and analysis of companies and the industries to which they belong. This is achieved through an intense company visitation program and our experienced investment professionals using proven valuation techniques and models.
Our market outlook
The market has been very volatile in the past six months and we would expect this to continue in the short term. In the meantime we have returned to our extensive company visit schedule and different team members have made trips to both the USA and Asia in order to assess whether the bounce we have seen in the resource sector is sustainable or just another false dawn. The good news is that we are finding opportunities amongst the volatility.
More information can be found at www. paradice .com.au/.
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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Designated charity in focus: United Way
About United Way
United Way Australia unites business, government, philanthropy and social purpose organisations in collaborative action that improves outcomes in education, employment, health and housing for families and communities experiencing disadvantage. United Way does this by:
- Mobilising resources - securing the long-term investment of funds, skills and networks to build stronger communities.
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Acting collectively - convening activity, coordinating service provision, and incubating and delivering evidencebased initiatives in partnership with others.
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Influencing systems change - sharing learning and scaling solutions locally, nationally and internationally.
United Way and FGX
With the support of FGX, United Way has expanded our Ready to Read program into a new community in Mount Druitt in Western Sydney. Ready to Read is a highly targeted program combining free monthly age-appropriate book deliveries to children at home from birth until five years old, with early childhood resources for parents and carers, and community mobilisation via partnerships that raise awareness of the importance of shared reading with young children. The program centres around helping parents, carers and grandparents become their child’s first educator, from birth.
FGX’s support has funded a new Ready to Read program in Mount Druitt, enabling hundreds more children access to the program so they can start school ready to read, learn and succeed in life. Mount Druitt is a community in the City of Blacktown in NSW with almost 30,000 children under the age of five. In Mount Druitt 30.9% of these children start school ‘developmentally vulnerable’ – which is above the NSW average of 20.2%.
Q&A with Kevin Robbie, CEO
What is your driving motivation in your current role?
My driving motivation is to ensure that United Way is impact led. I’ve worked in the community sector for over two decades and seen many approaches that are not impact focused. Given the complexity and scale of social problems, we have to be focused on maximising approaches that will have the greatest impact. This type of thinking should be embedded right from the start in how we think about designing new initiatives, right through to ensuring we evaluate what we have done and learn from what worked (and what didn’t).
What is the most challenging aspect of your role?
The challenge is finding the funding to scale solutions that we know are working. For example, our early learning initiatives now reach 30+ communities across Australia with over 6,000 children having received support to date. Evaluations show this work is generating outcomes across multiple literacies and life skills that enable children to start school ready to learn and thrive. But we know there are still hundreds of communities and thousands of young children that need our support.
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What does it mean to United Way to have the support of FGX?
It is incredible as it has allowed us to expand into a new community, one of the most disadvantaged in NSW, and begin to work with the young children and families there to begin to close the gap around kids starting school developmentally vulnerable. It has also enabled learning around effective community engagement and collective impact practices that we can roll out to other communities. We also value the opportunity to engage FGX staff in skilled volunteering and discussion on how we can best leverage their networks to advocate for change.
More information can be found at http://unitedway.com.au/.
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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