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Kingfish ASM Presentation 20 August 2020

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ANNUAL MEETING
OF SHAREHOLDERS

Kingfish Limited

20 August 2020

Board of Directors
Kingfish Team

Alistair RyanCarmel Fisher

Andy Coupe

Carol Campbell

Sam Dickie

Snr Portfolio Manager

Matt Peek

Investment Analyst

Wayne Burns

Corporate Manager

Agenda
•Preliminary matters

•Chair’s Overview

•Manager’s Review

•Q&A

•Annual Meeting Resolutions

ONLINE ATTENDEES –QUESTION
PROCESS

•When the Question function is available,

the Q&A icon will appear at the top of

the app.

•To send in a question, simply click in the

‘Ask a question’ box, type your question

and the press the send

arrow

•Your question will be sent

immediately for review

Chair’s Overview
•April 2019 –January 2020

•February –March 2020

•April –20 August 2020

•$1.37 to $1.68 plus divs, warrants

Kingfish’s Investment Objectives
Achieve a high real rate of return, comprising both income

and capital growth within acceptable risk parameters

Access to a diversified portfolio of New Zealand quality,

growth stocks through a single tax-efficient vehicle

Absolute Returns

Diversified Portfolio

Corporate Governance
•Board meetings

•Investment Committee meetings

•Audit & Risk Committee meetings

2020 Overview
Net profitDividendNAV per shareShare price

$1.7m

(2019: $47.1m)

12.63cps

(2019:11.76cps)

$1.39

(2019: $1.57)

$1.29

(2019: $1.35)

Total shareholder

return*

Dividend return

Adjusted NAV

return*

Share price

discount to NAV^

+7.2%

(2019: 13.5%)

+9.4%

(2019: +9.0%)

+0.4%

(2019: 17.6%)

6.7%

(2019: 13.1%)

*These metrics are Non-GAAP measures calculated in accordance with the methodology described in the Kingfish Non-GAAP

Financial Information Policy which is available on the Kingfish website.

^Share price discount to NAV (including warrant price on a pro-rated basis).

2020 Overview –Continued
Portfolio Performance

For the year ended

31 March

12 months

3 years

(annualised)

5 years

(annualised)

Adjusted NAV

return*

+0.4%

(2019: +17.6%)

+10.6%+11.1%

Gross performance *

+2.9%

(2019: +21.2%)

+13.3%+13.8%

Benchmark Index^

(0.5%)

(2019: +18.3%)

+10.8%+10.9%

*These metrics are Non-GAAP measures calculated in accordance with the methodology described in the Kingfish Non-GAAP

Financial Information Policy which is available on the Kingfish website.

^ The S&P/NZX50G Index

Earnings per share
Earnings

per

Share

20202019201820172016

Basic

Earnings

per Share

(cents)

0.7524.2419.6214.5016.71

Diluted

Earnings

per Share

(cents)

0.7523.8119.5114.1316.43

Use of Shareholder’s Funds

First Four Months, FY 2021
1 April –31 July 2020

Total shareholderreturn*

+34.4%

Adjusted NAV return*

+26.9%

NAV per share 31 July 2020

$1.73

Share price 31 July 2020

$1.69

Net profit

$92.6m

*These metrics are Non-GAAP measures calculated in accordance with the methodology described in the Kingfish Non-GAAP Financial

Information Policy which is available on the Kingfish website.

Warrants
•Capital Management Programme

•61.6m KFLWF warrants issued March 2020

•Exercise price is $1.64 less the dividends

declared over approx. a 12 month period

•Exercise date is 12 March 2021

Sam Dickie
Senior Portfolio Manager

Manager’s Review

•50+ years of Research + Development
•Leading edge innovator

•99% of products sold outside of NZ

•300%+ growth in core product recently

•CEO worked for company for 37 years.

Who am I?..

Agenda
1.FY2020 review & COVID-19

2.Active management more

important than ever

3.Portfolio insights

4.Outlook

1.FY2020 & COVID-19

Unprecedented Stimulus
30 March 201930 June 201930 September 201931 December 201931 March 202030 June 2020

Roller-Coaster Year for the NZ market

Note: S&P/NZX50G index; Source: Bloomberg

FY2020 financial year

2

Global Pandemic

1

Solid global growth

COVID-19 = Structural Change
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5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

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April 2020

US Ecommerce % of Retail Sales

Source: Bank of America

+2.9%
-0.5%

-1%

-

+1%

+2%

+3%

Kingfish gross

performance return

S&P/NZX50G index

Fiscal year to 31 March 2020

Manager performance FY2020

Late COVID-19 Impact on performance

+33.1%
+19.1%

+15%

+20%

+25%

+30%

+35%

Kingfish gross

performance return

S&P/NZX50G index

Fiscal year FY2021 to date as at 31 July 2020

Strong performance FY2021 so far

-80%
-60%

-40%

-20%

0%

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40%

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80%

100%

Vista

Auckland Airport

Freightways

Summerset

Delegat

Ryman Healthcare

Mainfreight

Infratil

Meridian Energy

Pushpay Holdings

Port Of Tauranga

A2 Milk

F&P Healthcare

Portfolio company return (year to 31 March 2020*)

Portfolio company performance

Note: *Only shows positions held at 31 March 2020. Source: Bloomberg

2. Active Management
more important than ever

Segmented portfolio = staying nimble
Bucket 1

Beneficiaries

Bucket 2

Bucket 3

Bucket 4

Defensives

Cyclicals

Eye of the storm

Also (outside our portfolio):

• Retail • Airlines

• Hospitality • Tourism

• Entertainment

Stock Pickers Paradise
12.1%

19.1%

33.1%

5.1%

1.9%

-

+5%

+10%

+15%

+20%

+25%

+30%

+35%

F&P Healthcare

contribution

a2 Milk

contribution

Everything else

contribution

S&P/NZX50G

index

Kingfish

Gross return

Performance 31 March 2019 to 31 July 2020

3. Portfolio insights

Ongoing Upgrade to Quality
Decreases

(-7.5%)

Increases

(+14.5%)

Exits

(-3.0%)

Entries

(+0%)

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Note: 31 March 2019 until present, logos show target weight changes of 1% or larger only

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20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

140%

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200%

2015A2016A2017A2018A2019A2020A2021F

What went especially well

Source: Company data and estimates

Hospital Hardware Units Sales Annual Growth

What went especially well
% of Customers Giving via App

0%

2%

4%

6%

8%

10%

12%

14%

16%

18%

20%

January 2016

April 2016

July 2016

October 2016

January 2017

April 2017

July 2017

October 2017

January 2018

April 2018

July 2018

October 2018

January 2019

April 2019

July 2019

October 2019

January 2020

April 2020

Monthly6 Month Average

A2M Share of Online Bestsellers

Source: Chart on left -Company Data and estimates. Chart on Right –UBS New Zealand

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30%

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60%

70%

80%

Pre-COVID-19During COVID-19

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200,000

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600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

March 2019

April 2019

May 2019

June 2019

July 2019

August 2019

September 2019

October 2019

November 2019

December 2019

January 2020

February 2020

March 2020

April 2020

May 2020

June 2020

What went against us?

Source: Chart on left -BoxOfficeMojo.com. Data on right –Company data

US Monthly Box Office

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$200,000,000

$400,000,000

$600,000,000

$800,000,000

$1,000,000,000

$1,200,000,000

$1,400,000,000

March 2019

April 2019

May 2019

June 2019

July 2019

August 2019

September 2019

October 2019

November 2019

December 2019

January 2020

February 2020

March 2020

April 2020

May 2020

June 2020

Monthly International Passengers

4.Outlook

Outlook: Active Management = Critical
•New Zealand economy was humming....

•....but most expect some slowdown

•We retain a healthy balance between

being nimble (honed during COVID) and

thinking long term

•Active portfolio management more

important than ever

....I am Fisher & Paykel Healthcare
Source: Bloomberg (in NZD), total return of FPH NZ EQUITY 31 March 2010 to 30 June 2020

Total Shareholder Return since March 2010

-50%

150%

350%

550%

750%

950%

March 2010March 2011March 2012March 2013March 2014March 2015March 2016March 2017March 2018March 2019March 2020

General Questions from
Shareholders

(not relating to resolutions)

ONLINE ATTENDEES –VOTING PROCESS
•When the poll is open, the vote will

be accessible by selecting the

voting icon at the top of the screen

•To vote simply select the direction in

which you would like to cast your

vote, the selected option will change

colour.

•There is no submit or send button,

your selection is automatically

recorded.

Annual Meeting
2020 resolutions

2020 Annual Meeting Resolutions
•Introduce and propose

•Discussion, questions

•Lodge your vote per the digital portal

Matters of Business
•Annual Report

•Resolutions:

–Re-elect Andy Coupe

–Auditor remuneration

Resolution 1
Re-election of Andy Coupe

To re-elect Andy Coupe as a Director of

Kingfish Limited

Resolution 2
Auditor Remuneration

That the Board of Directors be authorised to

fix the remuneration of the auditor for the

ensuing year

Conclusion
•Enter your votes via the digital portal

•Results to NZX

Thank you

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Kingfish Limited
Phone +64 9 489 7094

Fax +64 9 489 7139

Private Bag 93502

Takapuna, Auckland


20 August 2020

Kingfish Limited Annual Meeting

Chair’s Address from Alistair Ryan

[Slide: Kingfish Limited Annual Meeting of Shareholders]

Welcome to the 16th Kingfish Annual Meeting of Shareholders and indeed the first virtual meeting

of shareholders.

Unfortunately we are not able to meet in person this year and we have had limited time to switch

from a physical meeting to a virtual meeting. We have had to move quickly to recalibrate the

meeting and I trust that all the technology and other aspects will work well for all of us today.

An annual meeting is an important event in a company’s calendar and we are committed to making

sure this online version of our meeting is as close to the in-person meeting as we can get. Inevitably

the online format is different to the in-person meeting format but, on the upside, the online option

will have enabled many shareholders, who would otherwise not have been able to be in Auckland, to

attend this year’s meeting.

Let me introduce myself. I am Alistair Ryan, Chair of Kingfish.

We are duly convened as a notice of meeting has been circulated to shareholders and I can confirm

that a quorum is present on line so I can declare the meeting open.

[Slide: Introductions]

Directors Carmel Fisher (on my left) and Carol Campbell (second on my right) and our portfolio

manager Sam Dickie (on my immediate right) are participating in this telecast in person with me

today, and we have director Andy Coupe and Investment Analyst Matt Peek on line.

Andy is based in Tamahere in the Waikato so is prohibited from travelling to Auckland to join us in

the Fisher boardroom for this meeting.

I would like to thank Fisher Funds for making their boardroom available to us for this presentation

today.

Also connected to this meeting are representatives from our share registrar, Computershare,

auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers, our tax agent, Deloitte and our legal advisors, Bell Gully.

[Slide: Agenda]

The agenda for today.

Firstly preliminary matters:

• The minutes of the 2019 annual shareholders’ meeting held on 31 July 2019 are available on

the Kingfish website.

• The 2020 annual report has been circulated to shareholders – and can be found on the

Kingfish website.

Today I’ll give a brief update on the Kingfish 2020 financial year, and then Kingfish’s Senior Portfolio
Manager, Sam Dickie will review the Kingfish portfolio.

After the Manager’s Review, we will have a Q&A session, and will then move to the formal business

of the meeting. There are two resolutions for you to consider and vote on today, which are as set

out in the notice of meeting.

[Slide: Online Attendees – Question Process]

Before we start though, a bit of guidance on how to submit any questions.

You should be able to see a Q&A icon at the top centre of your screen.

To send in a question, simply click in the “Ask a Question” box, type your question and press the

send arrow.

Your question will be sent immediately to us.

This method won’t allow you to take into account any questions already asked, as would be the case

normally at a physical meeting. Because of this Wayne Burns, our Corporate Manager, is on hand

and will be consolidating any duplications and overlaps so that we don’t end up with an inefficient

sequence of questions covering much the same topic or issue.

We’ve set aside a time at the end of the two presentations for general questions relating to the

operations and management of the business.

For today’s meeting, you can submit your questions at any time during the meeting – up until we

close the questions session.

Questions relating to the two resolutions will be dealt with in conjunction with each of those

resolutions.

To facilitate this, being our first online ASM, can we ask that shareholders limit themselves to a

maximum of two questions please.

We’d also like to point out that general shareholder questions, not covered at this meeting, can also

be sent to the company via the website via enquire@kingfish.co.nz and we will endeavour to answer

them as they are received.

[Slide: Chair’s Overview]

It is my pleasure to again present the Chair’s Overview at this meeting.

And it was certainly a turbulent period of ups, downs and ups.

As Kingfish shareholders we gained strongly up until the middle of February, with the Kingfish share

price reaching $1.76 on the 20th of February, then we dropped rapidly and significantly to $1.05 on

23 March. These were volatile and uncertain times. One could even use the word “unprecedented”.

But all of that is starting to feel like a somewhat distant memory now (hopefully), with share price all

but back to the 20 February record high point, closing last night at $1.68.

This April 2019-August 2020 period has definitely been a twist on the popular adage of a game of

two halves.

If we think of the last 16 plus months from April last year to now, it was certainly a sequence of
three distinct phases, one of strong and consistent upwards growth, followed by two months of a

very sharp correction, followed by a steady and almost complete recovery of the ground lost in

February and March.

As shareholders are well aware, markets can be volatile especially over short periods and this was

certainly the case this year. And they may, of course, prove to be again. The future is pretty unclear

at the present time.

Somewhat unfortunately for Kingfish with a 31 March balance date, two of the three phases fell in

FY20 but the third, the recovery phase, occurred in the current year as we moved into FY21.

This 31 March financial year cut-off shows in our adverse result for the 12 month period but I am

sure shareholders will be taking a less clinical and time-bound view of the underlying performance of

their portfolio. I’m sure many of you will keep that accident of financial year timing in mind as we

move through today’s agenda.

As Kingfish shareholders, we started the FY20 financial year on 1 April 2019 at a share price of $1.37,

but during the subsequent 16 month period until last night’s closing, we have seen our share price

rise 31 cents to $1.68, we have received 5 quarterly, tax-effective dividends totaling just under 16

cents per share, and we had the opportunity to buy additional shares in Kingfish in July last year via

the warrants programme, at $1.25.

All of this this translates to a net gain (allowing for one warrant for every four shares) of 57 cents on

a starting position of $1.37.

This is an excellent return for shareholders in what could best be described as a period of significant

market instability.

And it clearly demonstrates how well the Kingfish portfolio is constructed and managed, based on a

rigorous and robust investment approach, which has held your investment in good stead during the

last 16 months.

So let’s have a quick review of our investment objectives.

[Slide: Kingfish’s Investment Objective]

As directors, and managers, we typically start our annual meetings with a quick reminder of what we

are here to achieve, being

• to achieve a high real rate of return, comprising both income and capital growth, within risk

parameters acceptable to the directors; and

• to provide access to a diversified portfolio of New Zealand quality, growth stocks through a

single tax-efficient investment vehicle.

In respect of both objectives, in the context of the comments I have just made relating to the period

April last year until now, the directors are pleased to validate that our two fundamental investment

objectives have been met and are being met consistently, year on year.



[Slide: Kingfish’s Corporate Governance]
Turning now to corporate governance...

The board is committed to strong governance principles and to overseeing the Manager’s portfolio

performance on behalf of shareholders.

In a normal year the board generally meets formally six times per annum, plus other meetings as

required, but during the initial period of the COVID-19 crisis, when market volatility was at its peak

(March and through April 2020), the board scheduled a number of additional meetings with the

Manager to check that appropriate risk management processes and procedures, including rigorous

application of the STEEPP process, were being adhered to.

These additional meetings enabled the board to monitor and closely oversee the portfolio

management process undertaken by the Manager as part of its mandated approach.

In addition to the special meetings referred to above, the Investment Committee meets twice a year,

on a six monthly basis, to hear from the Manager about what has gone well and what has

disappointed, and to engage in a comprehensive review session covering key performance metrics,

some of which we will go through on the following slides.

The Kingfish Audit and Risk Committee generally meets twice a year, on a six monthly basis, to

review the company’s financial reporting, internal controls and risk management systems, and to

meet with the external auditor and receive their report on both the interim and year end accounts.

The Kingfish 2020 result was announced in June, but I’ll highlight some of the key performance

measurements on the next slide, and Sam will discuss the underlying performance in his

presentation.


[Slide: 2019 Overview]

• As already mentioned the Kingfish year end at 31 March 2020 coincided with what can

now be seen as the then low point in the NZ sharemarket’s reaction to the first phases

of the COVID-19 pandemic


• At the end of January 2020 Kingfish was on track for a record year with NPAT of $62m,

however just two months later almost all of those previous gains had been eroded,

with net profit ending up at just $1.7m, well below the strong net profits of previous

years and the $47.1m recorded for the 2019 financial year


• We will come to the summary of the first four months of the FY21 year shortly and

shareholders will see that the profits lost in February and March have been more than

retrieved in the subsequent months


• The return ratios inevitably reflect the impact of the February/March downturn period

but we are pleased to point out that we maintained our quarterly sequence of

dividends despite the turmoil. We were able to maintain our dividends and that

remains our clear intention





[Slide: 2019 Overview - Continued]

This chart compares

the Adjusted NAV return, (the net return to an investor after expenses, fees and tax), and

the gross performance return (the return before expenses, fees and tax),

to the benchmark index return over the periods of 1, 3 and 5 years.

While returns were down for the most recent financial year, compared to previous periods, the

Kingfish portfolio has consistently matched or bettered the benchmark index.

Sam will discuss the New Zealand sharemarket dynamics and how the portfolio performed shortly in

the Manager’s Review.



[Slide: Basic and Diluted Earnings per Share]

• Given the increase in the number of shares through the warrants and dividend reinvestment

programmes, it is pleasing to note the growth in Earnings per Share through FY16 to FY19

• The sharemarket downturn at the end of the 2020 financial year inevitably had a dramatic

impact on the FY20 earnings per share, reporting at only 0.75 cps - an historically unusual,

but what has proved to have been a temporary result at least this far into FY21

• Yet again, a potent reminder of how variable sharemarket returns can potentially be and the

degrees of volatility that equity markets can experience from time to time


[Slide: Use of Shareholder Funds]

Turning now to Shareholders’ Funds

Despite the chaos of the last two months of FY20, this chart shows the Kingfish NAV of $310m (as at

31 March 2019) increased by a net $35m to $345m (as at 31 March 2020).

The movements during the year as represented by the blue and yellow columns were:

- plus $1.7m net profit,

And movements due to capital management initiatives:

- Warrant funds invested of $52m

- less $29m dividends paid, but adding back $11m for dividends reinvested by

shareholders, and

- less $0.6m for buybacks.


[Slide: First four months, FY 2021]

The first four months of the new financial year show the significant NZ sharemarket rally post the

COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown sell-off.

This chart clearly shows that the Kingfish portfolio has performed strongly over the last quarter in

particular.

This slide provides a snapshot of the first four months of the current financial year to 31 July 2020:

• Total shareholder return for the quarter was +34% - driven by the share price increasing
from $1.29 (31 March) to $1.69 (31 July).

• As at 30 July, the NAV per share was $1.73 ($1.39 as at 31 March) – an increase of 34

cents in four months and after a dividend of 3.06 cents per share paid on 26 June.

• The adjusted NAV return for the first four months of the 2021 financial year was

+26.9% (which represents the net return to an investor after expenses, fees and tax).

• This performance to date, translates to a net profit of $92.6m for the four months to 31

July.

• In assessing the YTD Net Profit of $92.6m, it is appropriate to consider the 16 month

period since 1 April last year which would annualise at approx $69m. FY20 was

adversely impacted by COVID crisis impact in February/March and FY21 YTD has

benefitted from the subsequent recovery from that low point.


[Slide: Warrants]

Kingfish has an ongoing warrant programme as part of its overall capital management programme.

The last warrant issue exercised in July last year and in March this year, a further warrant issue was

initiated.

In March Kingfish issued 62m new warrants to shareholders. These warrants have an exercise date

of 12 March 2021.

The exercise price is set at $1.64, less four dividends. Two dividends totalling 6.3 cents per share

have already been declared and paid, and it is expected that two further dividends (probably in the

order of 3 cents each, making approximately 12 cents for the year) will occur and be deducted, in

order to arrive at the final exercise price for the warrants.

The 2020 warrants represent a potential gain for shareholders at the anticipated/final exercise price,

but that will, of course, depend on the share price at the exercise date in March next year.

It is worth noting that the previous warrant issue, (exercised in July 2019), saw $52m of new funds

invested into the Kingfish portfolio, with 87% of the 48m warrants exercised.

Closing remarks

In closing, on behalf of the Board, thank you shareholders for your continued support of Kingfish. I

will now hand over to Sam Dickie, Senior Portfolio Manager of Kingfish.

ENDS

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