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GPT GROUP — Director's Dealing 2010
Dec 19, 2010
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Director's Dealing
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GPT RE Limited GPT Management ABN 27 107 426 504 Holdings Limited as Responsible Entity of ABN 67 113 510 188 General Property Trust AFSL 286511
Level 52 T: +61 2 8239 3555 MLC Centre F: +61 2 9225 9318 19 Martin Place E: [email protected] Sydney NSW 2000 www.gpt.com.au Australia
20 December 2010
Ms Suzanna Dabski Adviser, Issuers (Sydney) ASX Markets Supervision Pty Ltd 20 Bridge Street Sydney NSW 2000
By electronic lodgement
Dear Suzanna
Re: Securities Dealing Policies
In accordance with the new Listing Rule 12.9, please find attached a copy of GPT’s Personal Dealing Policy which contains GPT’s policy on dealing with GPT securities.
Yours sincerely
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James Coyne Company Secretary
GPT Securityholder Service Centre
T: 1800 025 095 F: +61 2 9287 0303 E: [email protected] www.gpt.com.au
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Personal Dealing Policy
GPT RE Limited and GPT Management Holdings Limited December 2010
Background
GPT has issued this Policy as part of its Risk Management System for minimising risks associated with:
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insider trading
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breaches of confidentiality
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conflicts of interest.
Employees of GPT are governed by the Corporations Act 2001 , the Australian Stock Exchange Listing Rules, the ASX Corporate Governance Council’s ‘Principles for Good Corporate Governance’ and the General Property Trust Compliance Plan.
As employees within the investment management industry, GPT employees must recognise that their actions must at all times withstand scrutiny from within the GPT Group, Securityholders, joint venture partners, regulators and the general public when considering personal investment opportunities.
Therefore, some rights associated with the confidentiality of personal financial dealings are given up to ensure that each employee and GPT as a whole comply both with the formal regulatory environment referred to above and with the spirit of these rules and the standards of moral and ethical behaviour expected of us.
This Policy applies to all directors and employees of GPT, and extends to an employee’s broader family, related parties or associates, including related corporations, superannuation funds or investment vehicles (“ employees ”). This extension applies where the employee has influence over the related parties’ judgement in relation to investment decisions made by these parties.
All employees are required to be aware of this Policy.
If at any stage employees are in doubt as to their freedom to deal in Securities, they are to consult the Compliance Manager or the Company Secretary.
Personal Advantage
No employee should derive any advantage personally or for another, from information which is not generally available and which has been obtained by reason of, or in, the course of that person’s employment. This includes information obtained from joint venture partners, or others with whom GPT is conducting business.
Conflict of Interest
Employees are prohibited from engaging in transactions that may involve, or appear to involve, a conflict of interest between the employee, GPT or its Securityholders.
Insider Trading
Employees are not permitted to buy or sell Securities, whether for themselves or for another person, if they have special knowledge or other price sensitive information in respect of that security (or company) which is not otherwise available to the general public. Information is not otherwise available to the general public until it has been made known in a manner that would, or would be likely to, bring it to the attention of persons who commonly invest in Securities of a kind where price or value might be affected by the information and, since it was so made known, a reasonable period for it to be disseminated among them has elapsed (eg through an ASX announcement).
Specific rules regarding dealings in GPT Securities are set out below.
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Issue Date: December 2010
Personal Dealing Policy
Dealing in GPT Securities
Employees may only deal in Securities in the GPT Group for the six week period beginning three days after:
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the announcement of the GPT Group’s annual results;
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the announcement of the GPT Group’s half year results; or
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the provision by the Board of forecasts in an offer document released to the market.
Even during this six-week period, a person must not deal in GPT Securities at any time he or she is in possession of unpublished information which, if generally available, might have a material impact on the GPT Group’s Security price. For this reason, employees are required to notify the Company Secretary prior to any dealing to ensure there are no insider trading issues.
Employees may not deal at any time in financial products issued or created over GPT Securities by third parties, such as warrants, options or futures contracts.
Employees may not at any time enter into transactions in products which have their primary aim of limiting the economic risk of their holding of GPT Securities acquired as part of the GPT Employee Incentive Scheme.
Notwithstanding the trading windows referred to above:
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Link Market Services Limited (as administrator of the GPT Employee Incentive Scheme) may acquire Securities on behalf of executives who are participating in the GPT Employee Incentive Scheme following the Annual General Meeting of Securityholders. Any such acquisition is dependent on Securityholders approving proposals put to them in respect of the GPT Employee Incentive Scheme at the Annual General Meeting.
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The following types of trading may be undertaken:
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Transfers of GPT Securities already held into a superannuation fund in which the employee is a beneficiary and where the employee does not exercise any influence or discretion over trading and the trading policy.
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An investment or trading in units of diversified fund where the assets of the fund are invested at the discretion of a third party.
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Trading in GPT Securities by a trust of which the employee is a trustee but not a beneficiary of the trust where any decision to trade during a prohibited period is taken independently of the employee.
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Undertakings to accept, or the acceptance of, a takeover offer.
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Trading under an offer or invitation made to all or most of the Securityholders, such as, a rights issue, a security purchase plan, dividend or distribution reinvestment plan and an equal access buy-back, where the plan that determines the timing and structure of the offer has been approved by the Board. This includes decisions relating to whether or not to take up the entitlements and the sale of entitlements required to provide for the take up of the balance of the entitlements under a renounceable pro rata issue.
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The exercise (but not the sale of GPT Securities following exercise) of an option or a right under the GPT Employee Incentive Scheme, or the conversion of a convertible security, where the final date for the exercise of the option or right, or the conversion of the GPT Security falls during a prohibited period and GPT has been in an exceptionally long prohibited period or has had a number of consecutive prohibited periods, and the employee could not reasonably have been expected to exercise it at a time when free to do so.
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Disciplinary Action
Any breach of this policy or failure to act within the spirit of this policy will be viewed seriously and will be subject to disciplinary action which may include termination of employment with GPT.
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Issue Date: December 2010