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babcock & brown limited prospectus.pdf - Astrojapanproperty.com
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SECTION 1<br />
SUMMARY OF KEY INFORMATION<br />
1.3 BUSINESS STRATEGY<br />
Babcock & Brown has focused on the origination and distribution of financial products with the following<br />
differentiating characteristics:<br />
• Niche markets across its global platform<br />
• Sourced or developed through proprietary networks or structures<br />
• Based predominantly on asset classes in which the Group has a strong expertise or which generate<br />
predictable long-term cash flow streams<br />
• Employing sophisticated structured financing techniques to optimise returns while managing risk<br />
Babcock & Brown has a unique blend of skills and experience which allows it to originate attractive<br />
products across a number of sectors and jurisdictions:<br />
• Using its global platform and structuring skills to originate opportunities<br />
• Assessing and pricing risk<br />
• Dealing with structural complexity to mitigate legal and financial risk<br />
• Making and implementing investment decisions in a timely and focused manner<br />
Babcock & Brown will continue to seek and undertake advisory and arrangement assignments<br />
that provide:<br />
• Good margins at low capital risk<br />
• Transaction flow that maintains and enhances the Group’s expertise in its targeted areas<br />
• An introduction to new areas of opportunity<br />
• Additional leverage to principal and investment management activities<br />
The increased capital base following the Offer should allow Babcock & Brown to substantially expand its<br />
principal investment-related activities. Opportunities have been identified for capital deployment totalling<br />
$460 million (including corporate debt repayment) during the Forecast Period, to be funded from existing cash,<br />
the IPO proceeds and Group cash flows.<br />
The Forecasts assume that the Group will have excess cash of approximately $185 million as at 31 December<br />
2005.This excess cash is not required to support the activities of the Group. Management currently anticipates<br />
that the excess cash will be fully deployed into new investments during 2006.<br />
Going forward the Group should be able to recycle capital from the sale of existing investments and to obtain<br />
additional capital from corporate debt facilities.<br />
The following chart sets out the assumed deployment of capital by Business Group, excluding corporate debt<br />
repayment, for the Forecast Period. Actual amounts of capital deployed in each Business Group and the timing<br />
of this deployment will vary depending on the availability of suitable investments and the Group’s use of external<br />
funding sources.<br />
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