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June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 50 7 201 Equity Fund Fund Equity High Conviction High June Ex 50 Ex Quarterly Newsletter No. NewsletterQuarterly No. elector S In this quarterly edition, we review performance and attribution. During the Quarter, we attended the Cochlear and Computershare investor days. We travelled to the U.S. visiting Sims Metal, Altium, Impedimed and we attended the ASCO conference. We also comment on Asian Energy, the changing travel landscape and Credit Ratings Agencies. Image: The dying art of hand sorting scrap. Selector Funds Management Limited ACN 102756347 AFSL 225316 Level 3, 10 Bridge Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Tel 612 8090 3612 www.selectorfund.com.au Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 About Selector We are a boutique fund manager with a combined experience of over 150 years. We believe in long-term wealth creation and building lasting relationships with our investors. Our focus is stock selection. Our funds are high conviction, concentrated and index unaware. As a result, we have low turnover and produce tax effective returns. We seek businesses with leadership qualities, run by competent management teams, underpinned by strong balance sheets and with a focus on capital management. 1 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Dear Investor, Eight years on and our main index, the All Ordinaries, is yet to breach the peak it set back in 2007. In sharp contrast, both major U.S. indexes, the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones Industrial Average, have marched well into record territory. There are plenty of reasons as to why this may be the case, be they structural, cyclical or economic. However, it is also apparent that for business, profits are harder to come by. Heightened competition, lower levels of economic growth and the continual shift to online is crippling businesses caught in the crosshairs. The absence of political leadership is embarrassing and continues to contribute to the significant obstacles facing businesses and individuals as they attempt to navigate an economy that is in transition. Our opening quote from Scott Farquhar, co-CEO of enterprise software provider Atlassian sums it up best. “It’s not the largest company, it’s not the most successful company, it’s not the strongest company. It’s the most adaptable companies that are going to survive.” So, while the Index may suggest little has happened, quite the opposite is true. In our investment universe, a raft of businesses turned in stellar performances over an extended period including leading bionic ear provider Cochlear, slot machine operator Aristocrat Leisure, domestic private health insurer NIB Holdings and enterprise software provider Technology One. So, while there are numerous businesses and industries to steer clear of, those that are prepared to adapt can do exceedingly well. In this quarterly, we cover a range of topics including feedback from investor days held by Cochlear and Computershare. During the period, we travelled to the U.S. to attend both the Sims Metal Management North American site tour, as well as the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference held in Chicago. We also comment on the growing importance of the Asian region, including its impacts on the global LNG market, changing travel patterns and influence on international equity markets. The fund delivered a gross positive return of 7.73% for the June 2017 quarter compared to the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index negative return of 1.54%. For the financial year, the Fund has delivered a gross gain of 11.96% against the Index rise of 13.12%. We trust you find the report informative. Regards, Selector Investment Team 2 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Table of Contents About Selector ................................................................................................... 1 Table of Contents ............................................................................................... 3 Quote: Scott Farquhar, Atlassian Co-CEO ........................................................... 4 Performance June 2017 ..................................................................................... 5 Investor day - Cochlear .................................................................................... 12 Process Automation - Computershare ............................................................. 14 Letter sent to CEO of Sims Metal Management Limited .................................. 16 Sims Metal Management (ASX: SGM) .............................................................. 18 U.S. ASCO Conference ...................................................................................... 23 The Asian Acceleration..................................................................................... 25 Credit Rating Agencies ..................................................................................... 33 Company visit diary June 2017 Quarter ........................................................... 39 Performance Statistics ..................................................................................... 42 3 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Quote: Scott Farquhar, Atlassian Co-CEO “Companies today are optimised for the current environment they live in, and when change happens, as it inevitably does, companies can’t adapt. It’s not the largest company, it’s not the most successful company, it’s not the strongest company. It’s the most adaptable companies that are going to survive.” CEO Farquhar adds: “About a third of our revenue, give or take, comes from the cloud. There are many companies that haven’t yet adopted the cloud and want to choose to run something internally for various reasons. We have invested heavily so we have leading cloud versions of our products…we see the future. In 10 years’ time, I would think 90 per cent of our customers will be in the cloud.” SFM 4 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Performance June 2017 For the quarter ending June 2017, the Fund delivered a gross positive return of 7.73% compared with the 1.54% fall in the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index. Performance statistics are detailed on page 42. Performance since inception Returns Gross Fund All Ordinaries All Ordinaries Return (%) Accumulation Index (%) Index (%) 3 Months 7.73 -1.54 -2.37 6 Months 7.94 2.89 0.79 1 Year 11.96 13.12 8.54 3 Years annualised 16.37 6.83 2.31 5 Years annualised 21.23 11.60 6.87 10 Years annualised 7.08 3.46 -0.90 Since Inception annualised 11.82 7.50 3.07 Fund’s Top 10 holdings* Top 10 June 2017 Top 10 March 2017 ALTIUM ALTIUM ARISTOCRAT LEISURE ARISTOCRAT LEISURE COCHLEAR COCHLEAR FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GROUP IRESS IRESS NIB HOLDINGS NIB HOLDINGS REECE REECE RESMED RESMED SEEK SEEK TECHNOLOGY ONE TECHNOLOGY ONE THE STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP Top 10: 47.64% Top 10: 47.03% * Listed in alphabetical order Selector employs a high conviction, index unaware, stock selection investment strategy, which typically targets 25-40 stocks for the Fund. As shown above, the Fund’s top 10 positions usually represent a high percentage of its equity exposure. Current and past portfolio composition has historically been very unlike that of your average “run-of-the-mill index hugging” fund manager. Our goal remains focused on truly differentiated broad-cap businesses rather than the closet index hugging portfolios offered by most large fund managers. 5 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Market Insights Global Equities 12 Month Returns Monthly All Ordinaries Accumulation Index Returns 2015 – 2017 Financial Years 6 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 All Ordinaries Index June 2007 – June 2017 ASX Sector Performance – June 2017 Quarter S&P ASX Industry Sectors June 2017 Quarter Performance (%) INDUSTRIALS 7.91 HEALTH CARE 7.14 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 4.54 CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 1.80 MATERIALS 0.12 CONSUMER STAPLES -5.62 ENERGY -5.65 FINANCIALS -5.97 TELECOMMUNICATIONS -8.36 Performance Attribution for the June 2017 Quarter Top 5 stock contributors % Top 5 stock detractors % ARISTOCRAT LEISURE 1.81 BLACKMORES -0.44 FLIGHT CENTRE 0.87 SIRTEX MEDICAL -0.30 JUMBO INTERACTIVE 0.82 THE STAR ENTERTAINMENT GROUP -0.25 ALTIUM 0.69 DOMINOS PIZZA ENTERPRISES -0.17 SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT 0.58 NIB HOLDINGS -0.16 7 Selector June 2017 Selector Ex 50 High Conviction Equity Fund Quarterly Newsletter #50 Financial year 2017 Top 5 stock contributors % Top 5 stock detractors % ARISTOCRAT LEISURE 3.83 GBST HOLDINGS -1.05 JUMBO INTERACTIVE 1.70 OZFOREX -0.95 NIB HOLDINGS 1.64 SIRTEX MEDICAL -0.85 SIMS METAL MANAGEMENT 1.61 BLACKMORES -0.78 ALTIUM 1.59 DOMINOS PIZZA ENTERPRISES -0.43 Top attribution 1. Aristocrat Leisure (ASX: ALL) Leading global slot machine operator Aristocrat Leisure delivered a strong result for the first half of the year, lifting revenues 22% to $1.2b and net profits by 49% to $273m. CEO Trevor Croker has continued in the same vain as former CEO Jamie Odell. Crocker is focusing on the group's core markets to drive further product penetration. Significant ongoing expenditure in design and development continues to deliver industry leading games which are helping to grow market share across all regions and product segments. The U.S. remains the group's single most important region, representing over 57% of revenues
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