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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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