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FUTURE GENERATION GLOBAL LIMITED — Net Asset Value 2017
Aug 13, 2017
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Net Asset Value
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Investment Update & Net Tangible Assets Report
As at 31 July 2017
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Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures
| Net Tangible Assets(NTA) figures | |
|---|---|
| NTA before tax 112.76c |
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| NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains 113.58c |
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| NTA after tax 112.43c |
The above figures are not diluted for 269,325,380 options on issue with an exercise price of $1.10. After tax NTA figures have been calculated at a corporate tax rate of 27.5%.
FGG Options
FGG optionholders can increase their shares at the exercise price of $1.10, on par with the 14 August 2017 share price of $1.10, without incurring brokerage fees. The options last traded at 0.1 cents. The options cease trading on 11 September 2017 and expire on 15 September 2017.
Future Generation Global Investment Company Limited
| ASX code | FGG |
|---|---|
| Established | Sept 2015 |
| Gross assets | $319.5m |
| Market cap | $309.7m |
| Share price | $1.105 |
| Net assets per share (before tax) Shares on issue |
$1.128 280,315,003 |
| Options on issue | 269,325,380 |
| Fully franked final FY16 dividend | 1.0c |
| Management fees | 0.0% |
| Performance fees | 0.0% |
| Annual donation (% of NTA) | 1.0% |
Portfolio
In July, the investment portfolio decreased 1.5% while the MSCI World Index (AUD) fell by 1.1%. The equity portion of the investment portfolio performed in line with the Index for the month. The appreciation of the AUD against the USD cash holding impacted the investment portfolio during the month.
The spread between the three broad equities strategies is currently 54.3% long equities, 32.5% absolute bias, 3.9% quantitative strategies and 9.3% cash.
| Fund manager Investment Strategy |
% of portfolio |
|---|---|
| Magellan Asset Management Magellan Global Fund Long equities |
10.1% |
| Ironbridge Capital Management Ironbridge Global Focus Fund Long equities |
9.5% |
| Cooper Investors Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund(Unhedged) Long equities |
9.1% |
| Antipodes Partners Antipodes Global Fund Absolute bias |
8.7% |
| Marsico Capital Management Marsico Global Fund Long equities |
7.7% |
| VGI Partners VGI Partners Funds Absolute bias |
7.6% |
| Nikko Asset Management Australia Nikko AM Global Share Fund Long equities |
6.1% |
| Manikay Partners Manikay Global Opportunistic USD Fund Absolute bias |
5.1% |
| Ellerston Capital Ellerston Global Mid Small CapFund Long equities |
4.8% |
| Morphic Asset Management Morphic Global Opportunities Fund Absolute bias |
4.6% |
| Neuberger Berman Australia Neuberger Berman Systematic Global Equities Trust Quantitative strategies |
3.9% |
| Paradice Investment Management Paradice Global Small Mid CapFund Unhedged Long equities |
3.6% |
| Avenir Capital Avenir Value Fund Absolute bias |
3.6% |
| Cooper Investors Cooper Investors Asian Tiger Fund Long equities |
3.4% |
| Antipodes Partners Antipodes Asia Fund Absolute bias |
2.9% |
| Cash and Term Deposits Cash |
9.3% |
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 Global Investment Company Limited (ASX: FGG) is Australia’s first internationally focused listed investment company (LIC) with the dual objectives of providing shareholders with diversified exposure to selected global fund managers and changing the lives of young Australians affected by mental illness.
Chairman
Belinda Hutchinson
Founder and Director Geoff Wilson
Chief Executive Officer Louise Walsh
Directors
Frank Casarotti Karen Penrose Susan Cato Sarah Morgan
Investment Committee Chris Donohoe Amanda Gillespie Aman Ramrakha Sean Webster Geoff Wilson
Company Secretaries Kate Thorley and Mark Licciardo
Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 52 606 110 838 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
9.3%
Absolute bias
32.5% Long equities
54.3%
Quantitative strategies
3.9%
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Long equities Quantitative strategies Absolute bias Cash
Long equities – investing in a portfolio of equities based on the expectation 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. Quantitative strategy – a style of investment management where quantitative techniques are used to analyse markets in order to ascertain information about future price movements. These are generally rules-based and applied in a systematic manner. A quantitative strategy seeks to replicate a fundamental investor without human biases influencing investment decisions.
Absolute bias – an investment strategy that seeks to generate returns, irrespective of the performance of traditional asset classes. These strategies use innovative investment techniques (including but not limited to short selling and leveraging) 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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Charities
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Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 52 606 110 838 Phone 02 9247 9202 I Fax 02 9247 6855 I [email protected] I www.futuregeninvest.com.au
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Service Providers
Fund manager in focus: Antipodes Partners
About Antipodes Partners
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Antipodes Partners is a pragmatic value manager of global equities (long only and long-short) founded in 2015 by Jacob Mitchell, former Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Platinum Asset Management, together with a number of former colleagues and like-minded value investors.
Our investment style
Our approach seeks to take advantage of the market’s tendency for irrational extrapolation around change, identify great businesses that are not valued as such, and build high conviction portfolios (30-60 holdings) with a capital preservation focus.
Our market outlook
Minsky’s assertion that the longer things are stable, the more unstable they become echoes against the current backdrop of extended low cross-asset volatility, one which we believe has created a false sense of security as investors confuse today’s low volatility environment with low risk.
Central bankers have somewhat cornered themselves. Increasingly, political and economic pressure to normalise interest rates or withdraw stimulus is likely to trigger volatility and widen credit spreads (our analysis suggests that U.S. high yield, or junk bond issuers are most vulnerable to this risk – see our research paper titled “The Global Corporate Debt Unwind”). Whilst the low-volatility regime may endure, investors have grown too comfortable with the central bank reaction function, extending the illusion of stability.
At Antipodes Partners, we do not attempt to predict or time regime change. While a poorly constructed building may eventually collapse, the cause, timing and degree is challenging to predict. As investors, we seek to identify where fragility exists and build a resilient portfolio with asymmetric payoffs at the stock, cluster and portfolio level, i.e. a safer building. At the core of our investment philosophy we seek in our long investments both attractively priced businesses (margin of safety) and investment resilience (characterised by multiple ways of winning), with the opposite logic applying to our shorts, i.e. no margin of safety and multiple ways of losing. Whilst the investment case will always be predicated on idiosyncratic stock factors such as competitive dynamics, product cycles, management and regulatory outcomes, we seek to amplify the investment case by taking advantage of style biases and macroeconomic risks and opportunities.
In summary, we’re encouraged by the growing valuation dispersion within and across markets (region/sector/factor) as we think this is indicative of broadening pragmatic value opportunities, both long and short. Further, investment strategies which are seeking idiosyncratic alpha (rather than passive beta), are flexible and risk-aware should outperform in an environment where volatility awakens from temporary hibernation.
Performance as at 30 June 2017
Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 52 606 110 838 Phone 02 9247 9202 I Fax 02 9247 6855 I [email protected] I www.futuregeninvest.com.au
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| Since | ||||
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| Since | Inception* | |||
| 1 Year | Inception* | p.a | ||
| Antipodes Global Fund | Portfolio | 20.3% | 29.1% | 13.6% |
| MSCI AC World Net Index | Benchmark | 15.3% | 14.6% | 7.0% |
| Outperformance | 5.0% | 14.5% | 6.6% | |
| *From1 July 2015, when the current stategy was adopted. |
For more information, visit www.antipodespartners.com.
Charity in focus: headspace
headspace is the National Youth Mental Health Foundation, providing early intervention mental health services to 12-25 year-olds. headspace services cover four core areas: mental health, physical health (including sexual health), work and study support and alcohol and other drug services. Young people and their families can access services face-to-face at one of 99 headspace centres across the country at headspace.org.au , or for online or over-the-phone support contact eheadspace at eheadspace.org.au .
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headspace and FGG
Through FGG’s funding, headspace has piloted an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traineeship Program. This program contributes to the development of a sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and wellbeing workforce in regional and remote areas of Australia to ensure all young people can access culturally relevant, appropriate and effective mental health services.
This program has employed an Aboriginal Project Coordinator and two Youth Trainees in the Northern Territory, and is supported by headspace Darwin. The trainees are expected to graduate from their Certificate IV in Mental Health in late 2017 and future employment opportunities are already being explored and supported by the Project Coordinator and headspace Darwin.
Since January 2017, through a range of youth and community engagement activities, the trainees have assisted in supporting almost 300 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, 170 family and community members and more than 50 professionals providing services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people.
Q&A with Jason Trethowan, CEO
What impact will the FGG funding have on your organisation?
FGG funding will enable the continued rollout of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traineeship program by employing two new trainees in the Northern Territory, as well as the potential expansion of the program in either regional Queensland or Western Australia. We hope that FGG’s funding support for this vital program will positively impact the engagement and reputation of headspace within rural Aboriginal communities. By raising awareness, increasing mental health literacy, and accessing mental health services, young people will be holistically supported which benefits them and their wider community network now, and into the future.
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Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 52 606 110 838 Phone 02 9247 9202 I Fax 02 9247 6855 I [email protected] I www.futuregeninvest.com.au
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What is the biggest challenge for the organisation?
Like much of the mental health sector, our challenge is the prioritisation of headspace resources. There are so many areas of youth mental health that warrant our attention and expertise but we can’t be everywhere, all the time. It is important to constantly assess where we are focusing our efforts and if we are using the wealth of headspace knowledge and experience at an optimum level to achieve the best outcomes for the young people of Australia.
What’s a burning issue for youth mental health in Australia?
That’s a tough question. For many in the mental health sector a key driver for what we do is the sobering statistic that suicide is the number one cause of death for young people in Australia. This is a statistic that the sector must reverse. Everything we do at headspace is dedicated to helping young Australians going through a tough time.
Whose work in the mental health space inspires you?
It really is the countless young people who come into headspace centres across the country, and who seek advice through eheadspace. The work that these young people do in taking that vital first step to seek help is a true inspiration. I am also in the extraordinarily fortunate position where I get to see so many of them grow and take on advocacy work representing headspace at a local, national and even international level.
For more information visit www.headspace.org.au .
Save the date for our November 2017 Shareholder Presentations
We look forward to seeing you at our next Shareholder Presentations in November.
Investor conference call
Shareholders have the opportunity to take part in an investor conference call. FGX and FGG Founder and Director Geoff Wilson and CEO Louise Walsh will be joined by FGX fund manager Matthew Kidman from Centennial Asset Management and FGG fund manager Rob Luciano from VGI Partners to provide their views on the market and top stock picks.
Date: Tuesday 5 September 2017 Time: 11.00am – 12.00pm (AEST)
To register, please visit futuregenerationinvestorcall.eventbrite.com.au .
Level 11, 139 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 I GPO Box 4658 Sydney NSW 2001 I ABN: 52 606 110 838 Phone 02 9247 9202 I Fax 02 9247 6855 I [email protected] I www.futuregeninvest.com.au
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