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FUTURE GENERATION AUSTRALIA LIMITED Net Asset Value 2017

Jun 13, 2017

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Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report

As at 31 May 2017

Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures

Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures
NTA before tax
114.29c
NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains
114.29c
NTA after tax
113.46c

Portfolio

In May, the FGX portfolio performed solidly, outperforming the S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index by 2.2%. The FGX portfolio has outperformed the market cumulatively by 4.9% in the four negative months since July 2016. Since inception, the investment portfolio has increased 8.6% per annum, outperforming the benchmark by 3.0%. The investment portfolio's outperformance has been achieved with less volatility as measured by standard deviation, 7.2% versus the market’s 13.5%.

The spread between the three broad equities is 40.9% long equities, 36.3% absolute bias, 14.5% market neutral and 8.3% cash.

Fund manager Investment
Strategy
% of
assets
Paradice Investment Large/Mid CapFunds(split out below) 11.0%
Paradice Australian Equities Mid
CapFund
Long equities
6.1%
Paradice Large Cap Fund
Long equities
4.9%
Bennelong Australian Equities
Partners
Bennelong Australian Equities Fund
Long equities
10.4%
Regal Funds Management Regal Australian Long Short Equity
Fund
Absolute bias
9.0%
Wilson Asset Management Wilson Asset Management Equity
Fund
Absolute bias
8.5%
Watermark Funds Management Watermark Absolute Return Fund
Market neutral
7.6%
Tribeca Investment Partners Tribeca Alpha Plus Fund
Absolute bias
7.1%
Eley Griffiths Group Small/Emerging Companies Funds
(split out below)
5.7%
Eley Griffiths Group Small
Companies Fund
Long equities
5.0%
Eley Griffiths Group Emerging
Companies Fund
Long equities
0.7%
Cooper Investors Cooper Investors Australian
Equities Fund
Long equities
5.3%
Sandon Capital Sandon Capital Activist Fund
Absolute bias
4.2%
Bennelong Long Short Equity
Management
Bennelong Long Short Equity Fund
Market neutral
3.4%
Optimal Fund Management
Australia
Optimal Australia Absolute Trust
Market neutral
2.9%
L1 Capital L1 Capital Long Short Fund – Retail
Class
Absolute bias
2.9%
CBG Asset Management CBG Asset Australian Equities Fund
Long equities
2.5%
Vinva Investment Management
Limited
Vinva Australian Equities Fund
Long equities
2.4%
Discovery Asset Management Discovery Australian Small
Companies Fund
Long equities
2.0%
LHC Capital LHC Capital Australia High
Conviction Fund
Absolute bias
1.8%
Centennial Asset Management The Level 18 Fund
Absolute bias
1.7%
Smallco Investment Manager Smallco Broadcap Fund
Long equities
1.6%
Lanyon Asset Management Lanyon Australian Value Fund
Absolute bias
1.1%
Qato Capital Qato Capital Market Neutral L/S
Fund
Market neutral
0.6%
Cash and Term Deposits 8.3%

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Future Generation Investment Company Limited

Company Limited
ASX Code
Established
FGX
Sept 2014
Gross assets $403.1m
Market cap $377.6m
Share price $1.080
Net assets per share (before tax) $1.143
Shares on issue 349,663,801
Management fees 0.0%
Performance fees 0.0%
Annual donation (% of NTA) 1.0%
Annualised fully franked dividends
(FY2017)

4.2c
Fully franked dividend yield 3.9%

Investment objectives

  • Provide a rising 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 charities, with a focus on children and youth at risk.

Chairman Jonathan Trollip

Founder and Director Geoff Wilson

Directors

David Leeton David Paradice Gabriel Radzyminski Kate Thorley Scott Malcolm

Investment Committee Bruce Tomlinson David Smythe Gabriel Radzyminski Geoff Wilson Matthew Kidman Chief Executive Officer Louise Walsh

Company Secretary Mark Licciardo

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
8.3%
Long equities
Absolute bias 40.9%
36.3%
Market
Long equities
neutral
Market neutral
14.5%
Absolute bias
Cash
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Long equities – investing in a portfolio of equities based on the expectation that the underlying equities will increase in value within a certain time horizon. Each equity represents an ownership claim in an underlying company which is generally listed on a public stock exchange. Market neutral – an investment strategy that generally involves the simultaneous purchase and sale of equities, to generate returns that are not linked to the performance of underlying equity markets.

Absolute bias – an investment strategy that seeks to generate returns, irrespective of the performance of traditional asset classes. These strategies use innovative investment techniques to profit from rising and falling markets, providing portfolio protection in the event an equity market experiences a significant fall.

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Fund Managers
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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: Watermark Funds Management

Watermark is a boutique hedge fund manager, founded in 2004 by Justin Braitling. As a specialist market neutral investor, Watermark uses its skill and experience in identifying mispriced securities to construct long and short portfolios populated with its best investment ideas.

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Investment style - Equity Market Neutral

By constructing two portfolios of roughly equal size and composition, Watermark ensures that its market neutral funds have little or no net exposure to the share market. The return in a market neutral strategy emerges when the long portfolio outperforms the short portfolio, creating a positive differential or ‘spread’. Watermark employs a fundamental research process to identify strong, well-managed companies that it will look to buy on occasions when the shares are undervalued. Similarly, it will look to short-sell the shares of low-quality businesses when they are overvalued. Fund returns will be determined entirely by the extent to which the ‘winners’ or longs, do better than the ‘losers’ or shorts, with no correlation to the return from the broader share market.

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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Market Outlook

One luxury afforded a market neutral investor is that we need not spend our time trying to decipher where share markets are headed. With no net exposure to the share market, returns from Watermark’s funds will ultimately be determined by our ability to pick the correct ‘winners and ‘losers’. Having said that, we see several risks ahead for share markets, which are reflected first and foremost in their price. Over the nine years since the GFC, risk assets such as shares have benefitted from ultra-easy monetary policy and coordinated stimulus from Central Banks. Not surprisingly, the prices of risk assets following this reflation phase are high, which makes them risky. Irrespective of whether the global economy can withstand deflationary pressures, geopolitical instability and the withdrawal of stimulus by Central Banks, we expect that returns from shares will be low in the medium-term.

Watermark Fund Management Performance

Watermark Market Neutral Trust performance has been stable in recent months, despite a challenging environment for stock pickers.

Our strategies rely on being able to find dispersions between the share prices of high quality and low-quality companies, within and across sectors. With volatility in the share market languishing at very low levels and sentiment being driven to a large extent by macroeconomic factors, dispersions have been compressed, limiting our opportunity set. Fortunately, with a broad investment universe that includes international shares, our team have been able to apply their fundamental research process in identifying a range of compelling opportunities. Given the fund’s hedged position, and track-record of strong performance in falling markets, we are well placed to deal with the challenges that may lay ahead.

A more comprehensive analysis of fund performance and our views on the outlook for shares can be found in the recent edition of our quarterly report – The Leading Edge.

1 Mth 6 Mths Financial
YTD

1 Yr
2 Yrs (p.a) Since inception
(p.a)
WMNT (net return) 0.6% 1.8% 2.3% 4.1% 11.3% 12.7%
RBA Cash Rate 0.1% 0.8% 1.4% 1.6% 1.8% 2.3%
Outperformance 0.5% 1.0% 0.9% 2.5% 9.5% 10.4%

For more information on Watermark, please visit http://wfunds.com.au/.

Charity in focus: United Way Australia

About United Way Australia

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United Way Australia (UWA) brings communities, business, philanthropy, government and social purpose organisations together to ensure every Australian community thrives. We believe the postcode people are born into should not determine their destiny, and the evidence is clear that no single organisation can solve the complexities underlying community disadvantage alone. We work collaboratively in 35 communities to improve education and employment for families and communities experiencing disadvantage.

United Way Australia and FGX

FGX is a vital partner in our early childhood initiatives, supporting 300 vulnerable children at risk of starting school developmentally vulnerable, in Acacia Ridge QLD, Mount Druitt NSW, Doveton VIC and children living in Out of Home Care in VIC.

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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This early intervention builds the skills children need to start school prepared to learn and thrive through:

  1. Book distribution – providing 0-5 year-olds with free monthly home-delivered books through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL).

  2. Supporting parent behaviour change – providing parents and carers with resources and opportunities to support them as their child’s first teacher.

  3. Community mobilisation – working collaboratively with early years’ service providers, communities, educators, local government and business to develop shared goals, avoid duplication and improve outcomes for local families.

This initiative is making a huge difference to children and their families with survey feedback showing:

  • More than 85% of parents/carers report a positive difference to reading with their children.

  • More than 90% of parents/carers report using the books to increase children’s general knowledge, numbers, sounds, shapes and rhyming.

Q&A interview with Clayton Noble, CEO

What is your driving motivation in your current role?

I joined United Way as CEO because I wanted to be part of an organisation that creates sustainable social change. My motivation is to connect like-minded people and organisations across diverse sectors to improve outcomes for communities. There are many people in the private, public and social purpose sectors wanting to personally help to create brighter futures for people in communities of disadvantage. I see this ‘coming together’ happening every day and it gives me great satisfaction to be part of creating integrated solutions.

What is the most challenging aspect of your role?

The social purpose sector, governments, businesses, funders and communities all know that key indicators of communities thriving are not improving in

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Australia despite many decades of funding, programs and good intentions. We all know that we need to do things differently, and that means it is not business as usual, which can be confronting. Funding real social change requires a deep understanding that sustainable social change takes time, and must be driven by communities. Only some funders appreciate this complexity and necessity, but not all. Funding sustainable social change, the work that United Way does, is challenging.

What does it mean to have the support of FGX?

FGX is a crucial partner for United Way, deeply understanding the complexity of social change and the importance of funding stability to drive lasting positive outcomes. FGX’s support enables our team to engage communities that are often ‘unheard’ or ‘misunderstood’ and ensure their voice, their aspirations, concerns and strengths, are at the table to guide our collaborative work. Through building a movement that starts with and is driven by communities themselves, we are beginning to see the dial move for some of Australia’s most complex social issues.

For more information about United Way Australia, visit www.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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