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FUTURE GENERATION AUSTRALIA LIMITED — Net Asset Value 2016
Feb 11, 2016
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Net Asset Value
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As at 31 January 2016
Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report
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Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures
| Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures | |
|---|---|
| NTA before tax 116.28c |
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| NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains 115.45c |
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| NTA after tax 115.36c |
The above figures are not diluted for 176,260,103 options on issue with an exercise price of $1.10.
Portfolio
In January, the investment portfolio continued its track record of outperformance against the falling Australian equity market. The investment portfolio decreased 2.5%, outperforming the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index, which fell 5.5%. In the financial year to date the portfolio has increased 8.5%, outperforming the benchmark by 13.5%, which decreased 5.0%. The spread between the three broad equities strategies – long equities, absolute bias and market neutral is currently 48.2% long equities, 24.1% absolute bias, 17.3% market neutral and 10.4% cash.
| Fund manager | Investment | Strategy | % of assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regal Funds Management | Regal Australian Long Short Equity Fund |
Long equities | |
| 10.0% | |||
| Bennelong Australian Equities Partners |
Bennelong Australian Equities Fund | Long equities | |
| 9.9% | |||
| Paradice Investment | Large/Mid Cap Funds (split out below) | ||
| 9.9% | |||
| Paradice Australian Equities Mid Cap Fund |
Long equities | ||
| 5.4% | |||
| Paradice Large Cap Fund | Long equities | ||
| 4.5% | |||
| Wilson Asset Management (International) |
Wilson Asset Management Equity Fund |
Absolute bias | |
| 8.2% | |||
| Watermark Funds Management | Watermark Absolute Return Fund | Market neutral | |
| 7.9% | |||
| Eley Griffiths Group | Eley Griffiths Group Small Companies Fund |
Long equities | |
| 7.5% | |||
| Tribeca Investment Partners | Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund | Absolute bias | |
| 6.9% | |||
| Optimal Fund Management Australia |
Optimal Australia Absolute Trust | Market neutral | |
| 4.9% | |||
| Cooper Investors | Cooper Investors Australian Equites Fund |
Long equities | |
| 4.8% | |||
| Sandon Capital | Sandon Capital Activist Fund | Absolute bias | |
| 4.0% | |||
| LHC Capital | LHC Capital Australia High Conviction Fund |
Absolute bias | |
| 3.5% | |||
| Discovery Asset Management | Discovery Australian Small Companies Fund |
Long equities | |
| 3.5% | |||
| Bennelong Long Short Equity Management |
Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund | Market neutral | |
| 3.1% | |||
| 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 | ||
| 10.4% | |||
Future Generation Investment Company Limited
| Company Limited | |
|---|---|
| ASX Code Established |
FGX Sept 2014 |
| Gross assets | $221.7m |
| Market cap Share price |
$218.8m $1.155 |
| Net assets per share (before tax) | $1.163 |
| Shares on issue | 189,447,553 |
| Options on issue | 176,260,103 |
| Management fees | 0.0% |
| Performance fees | 0.0% |
| Annual donation(% of NTA) | 1.0% |
Investment objectives
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Provide a stream of fully franked dividends
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Achieve capital growth
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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
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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Maiden interim dividend – fully franked 2.0 cents per share
The Board of Directors announced on Tuesday 12 January a fully franked 2.0 cents per share interim dividend to shareholders. The interim dividend announcement follows the payment of the Company’s final fully franked dividend of 2.0 cents per share on 23 October 2015 and a $1.64 million donation to supported charities on 12 October 2015.
The Board is committed to paying an increasing stream of fully franked dividends to shareholders, provided the Company has sufficient profit reserves and franking credits and it is within prudent business practices. The Company’s ability to generate franking credits is dependent upon the receipt of franked dividends from investments and the payment of tax.
Key interim dividend dates
Last day to exercise options to be eligible for interim dividend*: 7 April 2016 Ex date: 13 April 2016 Record date: 14 April 2016 Last election date for dividend reinvestment plan: 18 April 2016 Payment date: 29 April 2016 Option expiry date: 16 September 2016
*As at 31 January, 5,380,601 options had been exercised for a total consideration of $5,918,661 with the remaining balance of outstanding options being 176,260,103.
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Fund Managers
Charities
Service Providers
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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: Optimal Australia
About Optimal Australia
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Optimal Australia is a specialist manager of absolute return investment strategies. The company was formed in 2008, in partnership with long-established Japan and Pan-Asia long-short equities manager, Optimal Fund Management. The company is wholly-owned by its investment management team.
Optimal’s flagship fund, the Optimal Australia Absolute Trust, is a long-short large-cap Australian equities strategy, launched in September 2008. The Fund’s objectives are to compound wealth through achieving positive returns under all market conditions, to maintain an overarching focus on capital protection, and to consider risk and return in absolute, not relative, terms.
Since inception, over 89 months through to 31 January 2016, the Fund has recorded an annualised return (net of all fees) of 9.0% per annum, with volatility at 3.7%, and a Sharpe ratio of 1.32. Of the Fund’s monthly investment returns, 82% have been positive, with the largest cumulative drawdown at 4.7%. By comparison, over the same period, the ASX 200 Accumulation Index has recorded an annualised return of 4.8%, with volatility of 14.3%, 54% positive monthly returns, and a maximum cumulative drawdown of 37%.
Optimal Australia’s investment style
Optimal’s investment strategy is based in fundamental research, and is expressed with low but variable net market exposure. The fund is not strictly market neutral, but its net market exposure has averaged slightly under 10% of NAV since inception. The fund has typically been unleveraged, and runs quite low individual investment concentration, usually holding 20-40 stocks long, and selling 15-25 stocks short.
The strategy has a low beta (market return) correlation (at slightly under 0.10), with the Fund’s returns very much driven by stock alpha, and by Optimal’s bottom-up stock selection process. Through detailed fundamental company and industry research, Optimal generates a ‘fair value’ range on a dynamic basis for its active universe of around 130 stocks at any point in time. The investment team seeks to better understand why variances exist between a company’s stock price and its assessed ‘fair value’, the returns expected from reversion to the fair value range, and the risk factors that may act to prevent such reversion. The team’s hard-won investment experience (an average 28 years per person in Australian equities) is key in assessing when the ‘fair value’ reversionary signals can be best actioned, or whether the resulting investment idea needs further maturation, and should better be inventoried.
Optimal Australia’s Market Outlook
The Australian share market has gone nowhere since February 2014. Those investors still chasing beta returns saw a type of volatility (in scale and nature) in January that should scare them. Markets were gripped by an emerging (and probably well overdue) crisis of confidence in the ability of central banks to continue to underwrite asset prices. In that context, it’s no wonder that risk-aversion is rising sharply. Our guess is that recent market volatility is here to stay, and that the best days of equity beta are behind us for the time being. We’ll continue to focus on stock opportunities, and for the time being, without embracing materially higher levels of market risk.
More information can be found at http://optimalaus.com/
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: Variety- the Children’s Charity
About Variety
Variety - the Children’s Charity is a national not-for-profit organisation
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committed to empowering Australian children who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs to live, laugh and learn. By giving practical equipment, programs and experiences, Variety helps children in need to overcome whatever obstacles they face & live life to the fullest.
Variety and FGX
Funding provided by FGX will contribute to the Variety Scholarship Program, helping talented children who are sick, disadvantaged or who have special needs, achieve their full potential. Scholarships are awarded to support children who have a talent or dream in the arts, sport, music and education. Scholarships are awarded to cover training costs, equipment and skills based courses.
Funding from FGX will have extensive impact on a national level, with a vast array of accomplished individuals being supported through the program. The Variety Scholarships Program’s impact is greatly multiplied as the positive effect it has on the child then reaches into their families, schools, and their wider support networks and communities.
Over the coming months, a report will be circulated to FGX with an update of the scholarship recipients that FGX has helped support. As part of the scholarship process, recipients are required to give an update as to how the scholarship has helped them achieve their dream.
A number of past successful scholarship recipients have been able to achieve beyond what could have been imagined, performing dance and music on the world stage and representing our country as proud Paralympians and elite athletes.
Q&A with Tam Johnston, CEO
What is your driving motivation in your current role?
Variety’s mission is to help children who are sick, disadvantaged or have special needs to reach their full potential. I think we all want this for the children in our own lives, and the opportunity to help support other families is incredibly rewarding. For me, the most motivating moments are when you are spending time with parents, who just love their kids and want the best for them – often in the face of significant challenges, be that physical, medical or financial. It’s a real privilege to be a part of their journey in supporting their little ones.
What is the most challenging aspect of your role?
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Many of the gorgeous kids we work with at Variety face very significant challenges in life. In some cases they have conditions which are life limiting. It’s always personally challenging to see children suffering or having a difficult time. It does inspire me, however, in our role of helping supporters and donors come alongside these children and help them out when they need it the most.
What does it mean to Variety to have the support of FGX?
We’re so grateful for the support for FGX – it’s critical to the success of our work. It’s only through this sort of financial support that we’re able to help children and families. Last year this support translated in to scholarships for children who demonstrated commitment and potential but just needed an extra hand to succeed. What a gift to give a child – the gift of opportunity, acknowledgement and support. Thank you to all the FGX team for the difference that you’ve made!
More information can be found at http://www.variety.org.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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