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Introduction to GPS The Key to Investor Engagement & Governance April 2015
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Introduction
to GPS
The Key to Investor Engagement & Governance
April 2015
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I. Overview
II. Specialist Shareholder Services
III. Analytical, Retail & Institutional Expertise
IV. Governance & General Meetings
V. Summary
Table of Contents
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Overview
Section I
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The Key to Investor Engagement
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Overview
Independent shareholder engagement advisory firm
Founded on research and strong institutional links
Governance and voting strategies expert
Extensive institutional & retail investor engagement
Mandated in transactions valued at over $550 billion
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Specialist Shareholder Services
Section II
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Governance advice &
diagnostics; proxy
advisor support
program
M&A, defence, proxy & activist
strategies, IPOs and demergers
Capital raising investor participation
strategies
Share register profiling and
characterisation
Institutional and retail M&A solicitation
Institutional and retail opinion polling & discrete research
Specialist shareholder services
Shareholder engagement advice
at board and executive
management level
Independent business; expert team; active principals; no
hidden conflicts
AGM proxy strategies;
vote modelling
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Analytical, Retail & Institutional Expertise
Section III
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Analytical, retail & institutional expertise
Strong technical capability
highly qualified governance & proxy analysis team
co-publisher of the national GPS-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Shareholder Confidence
market-leading register profiling and interpretation
guardians of share registers in critical situations
Unrivalled institutional access
to fund managers, analysts, beneficial owners and governance specialists
deep proprietary institutional database and execution platform
based on transparency
hundreds of interviews annually with Australian & global investors
Retail investor engagement specialist
share register analysis and investor profiling
precise and targeted proxy vote and takeover solicitation
tailored SPP and capital raising strategies based on pay-for-performance
outstanding record of achievement in scheme and general meetings
All skills & resources in-house
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Corporate Governance & General Meeting Programs
Section IV
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Corporate Governance Diagnostics
Expert governance advice
GPS provides expert governance advice and can undertake an end-to-end corporate governance diagnostic covering all aspects: directors/board composition, disclosure regime, executive remuneration, compliance with best market practice (FSC, ACSI, ASX Principles, ICGN).
Our value proposition is to reduce vulnerability to shareholder agitation or activism and to build
shareholder support and loyalty by mitigating perceived investment risk through the implementation of market leading corporate governance frameworks and disclosure practices – backed by expert governance advice.
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Communicate proxy adviser focus points and sensitivities
Support engagement with proxy advisers and provide comparative proxy adviser matrices (ISS, GL, OM/ACSI)
Develop engagement plan and program leading up to an AGM,
Scheme or EGM
Proxy adviser engagement & support
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AGM proxy vote specialists
Annual General Meeting Program
Achieving highest
possible vote approval across all resolutions
Target
group
analysis
Bespoke institutional
proxy solicitation
Obtaining early and accurate
voting data
High-level investor
engagement
Voting
outcome
forecast
Proxy adviser engagement
Thorough
and
effective
Investor
Contact
Quantifying and
managing dissenting
votes Audit trail
and vote
reconcil-
iation
Methodical approach to
voting process, governance
dependencies and
influencers
Real-time voting
tabulations
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Summary
Section V
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Summary
Blue-chip clients, outstanding success
record
Independent shareholder
engagement advice
Operating at Board
and executive management level
Long-established and highly qualified team
led by principals
Best-of-breed proxy strategies and
execution
Broad client list informs best practice
Peerless retail
investor experience
Strong links with AU & global institutional investors
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AGMs & GOVERNANCE
ANZ Banking Group
APN Outdoors
Brickworks
CFS Retail Property Group
Commonwealth Bank
Centro
Charterhall Office Trust
Echo Entertainment Group
Goodman Group
HILLS
Incitec Pivot
Lendlease
Macquarie Group
NextDC
ROC Oil
Seven Group
Seven West Media
Southern Cross Media
Treasury Wine Estates
WDS
W H Soul Pattinson
Wilson Asset Management
Summary – our experience
Cross Border
Andean Resources
AngloGold
BaoSteel
Bangchak Petroleum
BG Group
Banpu Public Co
Bumi Resources
Cephalon Inc.
Computer Sciences Corp
Consensus Group
Equinox Resources
Frasers Cetrepoint
Kirin Breweries
Lone Star Value Partners
Magnum Hunter
Mitsubishi Mining
Oceania Capital
Quantum Pacific Capital
SEMAFO
Sinosteel
Sportsbet
Triple Point Inc.
Viterra Inc.
Xstrata/Glencore
Capital Raisings
Alloy Resources
Australian Bauxite
Augur Resources
Azure Minerals
Callabonna Resources
Celamin Holdings
Cerro Resources
Clean Teq Holdings
Crater Gold Mining
Cullen Resources
Laconia Rights Issue
Lynas Corporation
Minotaur Exploration
Niuminco Group
Northern Mining
Planet Metals
PTO Consolidated
Red Mountain Mining
Rox Resources
Seven West Media
Southern Cross Goldfields
Southern Gold
Viking Ashanti
Western Desert Resources
Mergers and Acquisitions
ABB Grain
Alinta
Atlas Iron
Ausdrill
Avoca Resources
Baru Resources
Brambles
Challenger Life
CHAMP
Coal & Allied
David Jones
Goldman Sachs
Industrea
Minemakers
Nexus Energy
Norton Goldfields
RHG
Roc Oil
Spotless
Troy Resources
Trust Company
Wesfarmers/Coles
Westfield Group/WRT
Westgold
Maria Leftakis – Governance, M&A
Managing Director
0411 275 275
Andrew Thain – Proxy Fights, ECM, M&A
Director
0411 432 221
Murray Williams – Activism, Proxy Fights, M&A
Director
0411 119 090
Michael Chandler – Governance
Director, Governance
0411 754 338
Contact Us
www.gpsproxy.com.au
