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FUTURE GENERATION GLOBAL LIMITED Net Asset Value 2018

Feb 13, 2018

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Investment update

As at 31 January 2018

Snapshot

Pre-tax net tangible assets Gross assets 123.8c $368.7m

futuregeninvest.com.au ABN 52 606 110 838

Management and performance fees 0%

Future Generation Global Investment Future Generation Global Investment
CompanyLimited
ASX code FGG
Date of listing Sep2015
Gross assets $368.7m
Market cap $373.1m
Shareprice $1..26
NTA before tax $1.24
Shares on issue 296,112,380
Management fees 0.0%
Performance fees 0.0%
Annual donation(% of NTA) 1.0%
Fully franked dividends
(FY2017)
1.0c

Investment objectives

  • Provide a stream of fully franked dividends.

  • Achieve capital growth.

  • Preserve shareholder capital.

Net Tangible Assets (NTA) figures

NTA before tax 123.81c
NTA after tax and before tax on unrealised gains 124.55c
NTA after tax 120.17c

After tax NTA figures have been calculated at a corporate tax rate of 27.5%

Investment portfolio

In January, the investment portfolio increased 1.7% while the MSCI AC World Index (AUD) rose 2.5%. Since inception, FGG’s investment portfolio continues to deliver sound performance with lower volatility than the benchmark.

The spread between the three broad equities strategies is currently 58.2% long equities, 31.4% absolute bias, 3.8% quantitative strategies and 6.6% cash.

Company overview

Future Generation Global Investment Company (ASX: FGG) provides:

Shareholders with exposure to leading global fund managers without paying management or performance fees.

Charities primarily focused on children and youth mental health with a stream of annual donations.

Fund managers with a unique opportunity to make a positive difference to Australia’s future generations.

Chairman Belinda Hutchinson AM

Founder and Director Geoff Wilson AO

Chief Executive Officer Louise Walsh

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Cash
6.6%
Absolute bias Long equities
31.4% 58.2%
Quantitative strategies
3.8%
Long equities Quantitative strategies
Absolute bias Cash
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Directors

Frank Casarotti Karen Penrose Susan Cato Sarah Morgan

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. The long equities portion of the portfolio includes exposure to large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks.

Investment Committee

Sean Webster, Chair Chris Donohoe Aman Ramrakha Sean Webster Geoff Wilson AO

Company Secretary Kate Thorley and Mark Licciardo

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 (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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Investment update As at 31 January 2018

Fund manager Investment Strategy % ofportfolio
Cooper Investors Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) Long equities 10.3%
Magellan Asset Management Magellan Global Fund Long equities 10.0%
Ironbridge Capital Management Ironbridge Global Focus Fund Long equities 8.8%
Antipodes Partners Antipodes Global Fund Absolute bias 8.3%
Marsico Capital Management Marsico Global Fund Long equities 8.0%
VGI Partners VGI Partners Funds Absolute bias 7.4%
Caledonia Caledonia Fund Long equities 6.9%
Nikko Asset Management Australia Nikko AM Global Share Fund Long equities 6.0%
Manikay Partners Manikay Global Opportunistic USD Fund Absolute bias 4.7%
Ellerston Capital Ellerston Global Mid Small Cap Fund Long equities 4.6%
Morphic Asset Management Morphic Global Opportunities Fund Absolute bias 4.5%
Neuberger Berman Australia Neuberger Berman Systematic Global Equities Trust Quantitative strategies 3.8%
Paradice Investment Management Paradice Global Small Mid Cap Fund Unhedged Long equities 3.6%
Avenir Capital Avenir Global Fund Absolute bias 3.6%
Antipodes Partners Antipodes Asia Fund Absolute bias 2.9%
Cash and Term Deposits Cash 6.6%

Fund managers

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Fund manager in focus: Paradice Investment Management

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Paradice Investment Management is a privately owned Australian boutique funds management business established in 1999. Paradice has offices in Sydney, Denver and San Francisco.

For more information, visit www.paradice.com.au

Our investment philosophy

The strategy employs a long term bottom–up approach. Paradice believes that equity markets are inefficient and offer excellent investment opportunities over time. The inefficiencies arise due to excesses in investor emotion, a focus on the short term and consistent focus on one of the least important aspects of a company’s financial health – its profit and loss statement. Paradice believes that one of the most important aspects of investing is objectivity. It is possible to benefit from changes in market inefficiencies by focusing on logical, ordered and objective investment decisions based on facts. Paradice aims to buy shares which it believes are underpriced and expects to grow at rates greater than the market. Paradice’s 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 industry leadership position. Paradice believes 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 experienced investment professionals using proven valuation techniques and models.

Our market outlook

The predominant narrative today is of a synchronised global expansion. The caution that characterised the half-decade following the global financial crisis has given way to more widespread optimism among investors. With US tax reform passed, eyes now turn to a potential infrastructure plan that could inject yet more stimulus into an economy where interest rates are already highly accommodative and unemployment is at 17-year lows. If a big US infrastructure push doesn’t cause inflation to finally rear its head, we’re not sure what will.

In recent years, the absence of upward wage pressures has fuelled robust profit margins, and those profits have been funnelled into share buybacks and M&A financed by cheap debt. This has been great news for retirees and executives receiving stock-based compensation, but less so for working-age people who would prefer a raise to a rising equity market. This unhealthy imbalance poses long-term threats to both the economy and the social fabric. Xenophobic politics and the cryptocurrency craze both appear to be symptoms of this underlying issue of everyday people being left behind. The above observations do not easily lend themselves to an actionable investment strategy, but do underline reasons for caution. As usual, we are leaning defensive in terms of business quality, balance sheets, and valuation. We also seek out management teams keen to avoid procyclical behaviour such as levering up and overpaying for late cycle acquisitions. We remain focused on our goal of compounding capital over a full cycle, and continue to scour the globe for underappreciated businesses that can help us attain that goal.

Since
3 1 inception
Performance as at 31 January2018 mths yr %p.a(Jan-13)
Paradice Global Small Mid Cap Fund- Class A 4.6% 23.8% 19.4%
S&P Global 1B -5B Gross Return Index 3.0% 17.9% 17.8%
Outperformance +1.6% +5.9% +1.6%

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Charity in focus: beyondblue

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About beyondblue

beyondblue is an independent, not-for-profit organisation working to ensure all Australians achieve their best possible mental health. Our services, programs and campaigns work to improve the lives of individuals, families and communities affected by anxiety, depression and suicide. In 2017, beyondblue was ranked as Australia’s third most reputable and third most innovative not-for-profit.

beyondblue and FGG

FGG has funded several beyondblue projects to support the mental health and wellbeing of our youngest – from birth to 12 years old. Childhood should be the ‘wonder years’, but we know half of all lifelong mental health issues begin before the age of 14. A 2015 survey found over half a million Australian children had experienced a mental health condition in the previous year. The more we support children and their families, the greater the opportunity to nurture resilience and prevent mental illness later in life.

In 2016, with FGG’s backing, we launched the Healthy Families website, to give parents and other family members the information, confidence and access to support to raise mentally healthy kids and take care of themselves along the way. www.healthyfamilies.org.au has already helped over 550,000 people to support the mental health and wellbeing of an estimated 1 million children and young people.

FGG’s generosity has also funded national research to establish a new evidence base on what works to build resilience in children. We used this research to develop a free practice guide for professionals working with children, including early childhood educators, teachers and maternal child health nurses, available from beyondblue.org.au/resilience-guide .

For more information, visit www.beyondblue.org.au

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Q&A with beyondblue CEO Georgie Harman

What is your driving motivation in your current role?

I love my job. It’s a privilege. And with three million Aussies living with depression and anxiety, and eight suicides every day in Australia – double the national road toll – we have so much more to do. Poor mental health often starts early in life – and over half a million Australian children experience a mental health condition each year. Behind each of these numbers are families and people – just like us – and doing better for them is my burning motivation. We have a real focus on smashing stigma and discrimination, and giving people practical tools that assist them to achieve their best possible mental health.

What does it mean to have the support of FGG?

It means a lot. FGG’s contributions have helped parents and professionals improve the mental health of the next generations of Australians. In addition to building www.healthyfamilies.org.au – which has already been accessed by over half a million mums and dads, grandparents, aunties, uncles and carers – beyondblue undertook a world first piece of research designed to define and illuminate a concept that is fundamental to the mental health of us all, especially our children’s resilience.

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Charities

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Service providers

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