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EUR 120.45 For Business Accounts Only

Aussie Equities Month in Review (June 2018)

  • The Aussie stock market saw another strong month and remains one of the best-performing markets in the world year-to-date.
  • During June, Energy was the best performing sector and we are positioned overweight in this sector.
  • Our recently released model portfolio update saw us move to neutral on property from being underweight.
  • Earnings revisions are providing the market with a tailwind and June saw the upgrades: downgrades ratio for the market still above the long-run average.
  • Australia's good outperformance over the past few months means valuations are becoming stretched in several sectors including Industrials and Healthcare.

 

Underlyings
APN Outdoor Group Ltd.

APN Outdoor Group Limited is an Australia-based provider of advertising services. The Company operates in the Out-of-Home advertising market segment. The Company supplies Out-of-Home media and advertising services at sites in Australia and New Zealand. It offers digital billboards, static roadside billboards, transit advertising, rail advertising and airport advertising. It has a geographically diversified outdoor advertising network, which operates in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, the Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania and New Zealand.

Ardent Leisure

Ardent Leisure invests in and operates leisure and entertainment businesses in Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. Co. is organised into the following divisions: Marinas, which comprises seven d'Albora Marina properties, located in New South Wales and Victoria; Family entertainment centres, which comprises of 27 Main Event sites in the U.S.; Bowling centres, which comprises 48 bowling centres and six amusement arcades located in Australia and New Zealand; Theme parks, which comprises Dreamworld and WhiteWater World in Coomera, Queensland and the SkyPoint observation deck and climb in Surfers Paradise, Queensland; as well as Health clubs, which comprises 76 clubs in Australia.

Azumah Resources

Azumah Resources is a Perth-based mineral exploration company focused on exploring and developing its 100%-owned Wa Gold Project in northwest Ghana, West Africa.

Challenger Limited

Challenger is an investment manager with offices in Australia and London. Co.'s operating segments are: Life and Funds Management (FM). The Life segment comprises Challenger Life Company Limited (CLC), a provider of annuities and guaranteed retirement income products, and Accurium Pty Limited, a provider of self-managed superannuation fund actuarial certificates. The FM segment comprises Fidante Partners and Challenger Investment Partners (CIP). Fidante Partners provides administration and distribution services. CIP develops and manages assets under Co.'s brand for CLC and third party institutional investors. The investments managed by CIP are mainly in fixed income and commercial property.

Credit Corp Group

Credit Corp Group is engaged in debt purchase and collection as well as consumer lending. Co.'s segments are comprised of: debt ledger purchasing, which is comprised of purchases of consumer debts at a discount to their face value from credit providers with the objective of recovering amounts in excess of the purchase price over the collection life cycle of the receivables; and Consumer lending, which provides various financial products to credit-impaired consumers.

Domino's Pizza Enterprises Limited

Domino's Pizza is engaged in the operation of retail food outlets and the operation of franchise services. Co. operates in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Japan. Co.'s reportable segments are focused on the geographical location in which it operates in: Australia/New Zealand, Europe, and Japan. As of Jul 3 2016, Co.'s total network store count was 714 in Australia and New Zealand, 816 in Europe and 453 in Japan.

Electric Connector Technology (A)

G8 Education Limited

G8 Education is engaged in the operation of early education centres owned by Co., and ownership of early education centre franchises. Co. operates in Australia and Singapore.

Gateway Lifestyle

Gateway Lifestyle Group is engaged in providing affordable lifestyle solutions to senior Australians. Co. acquires, manages and integrates manufacturing home estate (MHE) to provide affordable accommodation to senior Australians. Co. is organized into two operating segments: manufactured home operations, which collects rental from sites; and manufactured home development, which sells a manufactured home to a resident. As of June 30 2016, Co. had 53 MHEs in its portfolio, with 38 based in New South Wales, 12 in Queensland and three in Victoria.

Graincorp Limited Class A

GrainCorp is a food ingredients and agribusiness company. Co. focuses its activities on three main grains (wheat, barley and canola). Co.'s reporting segments are: Storage and Logistics, which include grain receivals, transport, testing, storage of grains and other bulk commodities; Marketing, which markets grain and agricultural products and operates grain pools; Malt, which produces malt products, provides brewing inputs and other malting services, sells farm inputs, and exports malt; and Oils, which includes the processing and crushing of oilseeds. Co. also has a 60.0% joint venture interest in Allied Mills Australia Pty Ltd, a supplier of milled edible flour for human consumption.

Greencross

Greencross is a pet care company providing veterinary services. Co. provides a network of retail stores, veterinary clinics, grooming salons and dog-wash facilities across Australia and New Zealand. As of June 30 2016, Co. had over 220 stores operating under the brands Petbarn and City Farmers and over 150 clinics including general practices, specialty and emergency centres. Co. also provides a range of additional pet care services such as crematoria, pet adoption, puppy behavioral training, pet insurance and pet hotels. In addition to selling pet food and accessories via its store and clinic network, Co. also has an online business serving the Australian and New Zealand pet care market.

Healthscope Ltd.

Healthscope is a private healthcare provider, with 45 private hospitals and 48 medical centres and skin clinics across Australia, as well as 56 international pathology laboratories. Co. is also a provider of pathology services in New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia. Co.'s reportable segments are Hospitals Australia, which provides management and surgical and non-surgical private hospitals; Pathology New Zealand, which provides pathology services in New Zealand; and Other, which provides pathology services in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam and practice management services in medical centres in Australia.

HT&E

HT&E is a media and entertainment company with assets in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Co. has six reportable segments: NZME Publishing, which is engaged in newspaper, magazine, online publishing and events in New Zealand; NZME Radio, which operates radio networks throughout New Zealand; GrabOne, which is engaged in e-Commerce business in New Zealand; Australian Regional Media, which is engaged in newspaper and online publishing in Australia; Australian Radio Network, which is engaged in metropolitan radio networks throughout Australia; and Outdoor, which is engaged in street furniture, billboard, transit and other outdoor advertising.

InvoCare Ltd.

Invocare is a provider of services in the funeral industry in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore with smaller operations in Hong Kong and the U.S. Through its associate, Co. provides online memorial services to allow families and communities to celebrate the life of a loved one.

IOOF Holdings Ltd

IOOF Holdings is engaged in the financial services industry. Co. provides a range of wealth management solutions for Australians, including: financial advice and distribution services via its network of financial advisers and stockbrokers; platform management and administration such as superannuation and investment administration platforms for advisers, their clients and employers in Australia; investment management products that are designed for investors; and trustee services, including estate planning and administration, personal trustee services, self-managed super fund solutions and corporate trust.

Link Administration Holdings Ltd.

Link Administration Holdings provides technology-enabled outsourced administration services to companies, asset owners, and trustees in Australia. Co. operates through Fund Administration, Corporate Markets, and Information, Digital, and Data Services segment. The Fund Administration segment provides administration services to superannuation funds; Corporate Markets offers a comprehensive and integrated corporate market offering that connects issuers with their stakeholders; and Information, Digital, and Data Services provides core services of development and maintenance of proprietary IT systems and platforms.

Mayne Pharma Group Limited

Mayne Pharma is a pharmaceutical company focused on applying its drug delivery capabilities to commercialize branded and generic pharmaceuticals. Co. operates in four business units: Generic Products, which develops, manufactures, markets and distributes generic pharmaceutical products in the U.S.; Specialty Brands, which markets and distributes specialty branded pharmaceutical products in the U.S.; Metrics Contract Services, which provides contract pharmaceuticals development services and analytical services to third parties; and Mayne Pharma International, which develops, manufactures, markets and distributes branded and generic pharmaceutical products globally, excluding the U.S.

Metcash Limited

Metcash is a wholesaler and distributor, supplying and supporting independent retailers across the food, grocery, liquor and hardware industries. Co.'s reportable segments are as follows: Food and Grocery, which comprises the distribution of dry grocery, perishable and general merchandise supplies to retail outlets; Liquor, which comprises the distribution of liquor products to retail outlets and hotels; as well as Hardware, which comprises the distribution of hardware supplies to retail outlets and trade customers.

National Storage REIT

NNational Storage is an owner and operator of self-storage centres. Co. is engaged in the operation and management of storage centres in Australia and New Zealand. Co.'s portfolio of owned and managed centres comprised of 105 centres, managing 59,200 storage units around Australia and New Zealand as of June 30 2016. Of the 105 self-storage properties in Co.'s portfolio, ownership is as follows: 60 self-storage centres owned by National Storage Property Trust; 16 self-storage centres operated as long-term leasehold centres (Leasehold Centres); 26 self-storage centres managed for the Southern Cross Storage Group (Southern Cross); and three third party managed centres.

Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited

Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings is engaged in the television broadcasting and program production and digital, internet, subscription television, and other media sectors. Co. manages its business based on two reportable segments: television, which includes free to air television activities; and digital, which includes its Nine Digital Pty Limited subsidiary and other digital activities.

Reliance Worldwide Corp. Ltd.

Reliance Worldwide Corporation is a limited liability company. Co. is principally engaged in the design, manufacture and supply of high quality, reliable and premium branded water flow and control products and solutions for the plumbing industry. Co. manufacturers brass Push-to Connect (PTC) plumbing fittings, sold under the SharkBite brand. Co. operates through the following four product segments: Fittings and Pipe, Control Valves, Thermostatic Products and Other Products. Co. has 12 manufacturing facilities across Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and Spain.

Retail Food Group

Retail Food Group is engaged in the intellectual property ownership; development and management Co.'s Brand Systems throughout the world, whether directly managed and/or as licensor for all Brand Systems excluding Esquires Coffee Houses; and development and management of coffee roasting facilities and the wholesale supply of coffee and allied products to existing Brand Systems and third party accounts. Co. is organized into seven operating divisions: Donut King Brand System; Michel's Patisserie Brand System; Brumby's Bakery Brand System; QSR Systems; Mobile Systems; Coffee Retail Systems; and Coffee and Allied Beverage. As at June 30, 2016, Co. had 2,530 outlets.

Sandfire Resources Limited

Sandfire Resources is a mining and exploration company. Co. is engaged in the production and sale of copper, gold and silver; and the exploration and evaluation of mineral tenements and projects in Australia and overseas. Co. has two operating segments: The DeGrussa Copper Mine, a copper-gold mine located in the Bryah Basin mineral province of Western Australia; and Exploration and evaluation, which includes exploration and evaluation of the mineral tenements in Australia and overseas, including exploring for potential repeats of the DeGrussa Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide mineralised system at the Doolgunna Projects and Co.'s investment in Tintina Resources Inc and WCB Resources Ltd.

Syrah Resources Limited

Syrah Resources is a resource company based in Australia. Co.'s principal activities consisted of the development and construction of the Balama Graphite Project in Mozambique; continued assessment of the use of graphite from the Balama Graphite Project as an input into the production of spherical graphite and recarburiser products; and ongoing exploration and evaluation studies, including further technical investigations into the potential to extract and produce vanadium from the Balama Graphite Project ore body.

Tassal Group Ltd.

Tassal Group is a salmon grower and salmon and seafood processor, seller and marketer.

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