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Vital 2021 Annual Meeting

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Annual Meeting
24 NOVEMBER 2021

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Presented by:
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Meeting Agenda

▸Introduction

▸Address of the Chair of the Manager

▸Address of the Fund Manager

▸Annual Financial Statements

▸Questions

▸Re-election of Andrew Evans

▸General Business

▸Closing Remarks

Graham Stuart

Independent Chair

Aaron Hockly

Fund Manager

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Board of the Manager
VITAL’SMANAGER HAS A MAJORITY OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS

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Graham Stuart


Independent Chair

Andrew Evans


Independent Director

Paul Dalla Lana


Director

D r.Michael Stanford


Independent Director

Craig Mitchell


Director

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In Attendance
VIRTUALLY

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Aaron Hockly

Fund Manager – Vital

Michael Groth

Chief Financial Officer

Justine Wealleans

Trustees Executers Limited

Silvio Bruinsma

Deloitte

Chris Adams

Executive Director, Projects

Richard Roos

Executive Director, Portfolio

Toby Sharpe

Bell Gully

SUPERVISOR, AUDIT & LEGAL

MANAGEMENT TEAM

Vanessa Flax

Regional General Counsel and Company Secretary

Alex Belcastro

Senior Vice President, Medical Precincts

Evan Kennerley

Trustees Executers Limited

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Address of the Independent
Chair of the Manager

Graham Stuart

Independent Chair

Comparative Returns
VITAL HAS CONTINUED TO OUTPERFORM ON A TOTAL RETURN

(1)

BASIS

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▸Outperformance against both the S&P/NZX All Real Estate

Index and S&P/NZX 50 Index consistently since inception of

the Index in December 2004

▸2.6% outperformance versus NZX REIT benchmark over last

12 months and 5.0% outperformance versus NZX 50

▸Long-term outperformance highlights the defensive nature of

healthcare real estate compared to other real estate classes

Total return

(1)

to 30 September 20211yr

3yr

(p.a.)

10yr

(p.a.)

Since 2004

(p.a.)

(2)

Vital Healthcare13.2%19.5%16.4%14.6%

S&P/NZX All Real Estate Index10.7%12.6%12.2%9.8%

S&P/NZX 50 Index8.3%10.8%14.3%9.2%

Vital’s outperformance vs NZX REIT2.6%6.9%4.2%4.8%

Vital’s outperformance vs NZX 505.0%8.7%2.1%5.4%

Vital vs S&P/NZX Real Estate Index

Source: Forsyth Barr

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Total returns measured by change in unit price adjusted for reinvestment of post-tax distributions to 30 September 2021

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S&P/NZX All Real Estate Index data from 31 December 2004, being the inception date of the NZX All Real Estate Index

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Key Achievements Over the Last 12 Months
GOVERNANCE AND OTHER INITIATIVES BENEFIT UNITHOLDERS

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▸Ongoing Board renewal process underway.

Management represented by Craig Mitchell on

the Board.

▸Inaugural sustainability report issued and

inaugural CDP and GRESB participation

▸Enhanced engagement with unitholders

including Investor Day held in Auckland

(despite challenges presented by COVID-19)

▸$142.8m of new equity capital raised primarily

from existing unitholders

▸Governance policies reviewed

▸Dividend stability and growth

▸Continued investing and developing healthcare

real estate through COVID-19

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FY22 Distribution guidance of 9.5cpu, 7.0% above FY21

Address of the
Fund Manager

Aaron Hockly

Fund Manager - Vital

Operational Highlights
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS IN FY21 AND SUBSEQUENTLY

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▸10.4% increase in AFFO per unit (FY21)

▸FY22 AFFO guidance of at least 11.80 cpu;

up at least 2% on FY21

▸FY22 distribution guidance of 9.5 cpu; 5.6%

above last annualisedguidance

▸Equity raising reduced gearing to ~34%

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Financial

▸>99% of rent collected for FY21 and Q1

FY22 despite COVID-19

▸Market leading,18.0-year WALE maintained

▸60,000sqm of new, renewed or extended

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leasing during FY21

▸Strategic asset sales continue to be

considered in line with Vital’s5yr Strategy

Portfolio

▸$286m of acquisitions completed in FY21,

plus ~$145m

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completed to date during

FY22

▸10 developments underway and at varying

stages from commencement to nearing

completion

▸Actively considering both stabilisedand

development opportunities in excess of

$350m

Acquisitions and Developments

Targeting 2-3% AFFO and distribution growth per unit per annum

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30 Sept proforma incl. Oct equity raise

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Includes new leasing on standing investments and development pre-commitments

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Predominately The Tennyson Centre (settled) and Hutt Valley Health Hub which is contracted and awaiting settlement

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Property Portfolio
PORTFOLIO REMAINS DIVERSIFIED, LOW RISK AND HIGH- QUALITY AT 31 OCTOBER 2021

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Portfolio value

$2.7bn

Properties

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81%

Hospitals

14%

Ambulatory care

5%

Aged care

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3

6

13

5

12

74%

Australia

26%

New Zealand

Excludes any revaluation gains which may be recorded as at 31 December 2021

Key Metrics

99.0%

occupancy

8.0%

NPI growth FY21

(excluding FX)

18.0 year

WALE

4.86%

weighted average

cap rate

$460.2m

committed development pipeline

($276m cost to complete)

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5

13

6

2

4

5-year Portfolio Strategy
CONTINUED DEPLOYMENT OF 5- YEAR STRATEGY

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ACQUISITION OF THE TENNYSON CENTREACQUISITION OF HUTT VALLEY HEALTH HUB

▸The Tennyson Centre is one of Adelaide’s leading ‘Cancer Centresof Excellence’, a high-

quality ambulatory care facility located in a strategic metropolitan location, acquired for

~A$93m

▸The asset has strong leasing fundamentals with high quality tenants operating in the

identification, assessment and treatment of cancer through oncology, radiotherapy, imaging

and consulting services

▸The transaction includes 1,920sqm of adjoining land held for future development

▸Hutt Valley Health Hub is a purpose-built seismically resilient medical office building and amulatory

facility, acquired for $46.5m (plus transaction costs)

▸The existing building was completed in late 2019 consistent with the Manager's focus on developing

and acquiring new and recently constructed buildings. The acquisition will increase Vital’sfuture

expansion land holding to ~3,200sqm to meet both public and private healthcare demand

▸The property adjoins Vital’sexisting asset, BoulcottHospital, as well as the main public hospital for the

region, Hutt Hospital. Post settlement Vital’syield for the campus will reflect ~4.5% across the Hutt

Valley Health Hub and BoulcottHospital

▸Settlement is expected to occur between September 2021 and March 2022, subject to finalisationof

title amalgamation for the development land

SALE OF GOLD COAST SURGICAL CENTRE

In mid-October, Gold Coast Surgery Centre was sold for ~A$13m (before costs) ~5%

above its book value, with the proceeds used to support acquisitions.

New Zealand Hospital Developments
WITH EVOLUTION HEALTHCARE AND SOUTHERN CROSS

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During the quarter, stage one of the redeveloped Wakefield

Hospital in Wellington was officially opened with the contract for

Stage 2 executed and early works underway. This project includes

additional funding from Vital and Evolution Healthcare

(Wakefield’s operator).

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WAKEFIELD HOSPITAL

~$74m of new and extended brownfield developments were

approved across five of Evolution Healthcare’s facilities in New

Zealand:

▸Grace Hospital, Tauranga which

Evolution operates in joint venture

with Southern Cross

▸Royston Hospital, Hastings

▸Royston Day Surgery Unit, Hastings

▸Wakefield Hospital, Wellington

▸Bowen Hospital, Wellington

New and extended

brownfield developments

~$74m

Delivering Value for Unitholders
DEVELOPMENTS PROVIDE EARNINGS AND VALUATION GROWTH

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PLAYFORD HEALTH HUB

Vital’sdevelopment of Playford Health Hub in Adelaide has

recorded success across all three stages:

▸Stage 1 - ~A$24m

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multi-deck car park and retail suites

completed this month. The project was anchored via a

long-term lease to SA Health for ~50% of the car park with

the retail component now substantially pre-leased.

▸Stage 2 - ~A$49m

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Specialist Medical Centre is ~60%

pre-leased and design work has significantly progressed.

Construction is expected to commence in mid-2022.

▸Stage 3 - ~A$93m

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up to 120 bed private hospital under

a Memorandum of Understanding with Calvary, one of

Australia’s largest not-for -profit hospital operators.

Artist’s impression of ~$165m

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Playford Health Hub in Adelaide

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Includes base build and hard fit-out costs

STAGE 1

Car park and

retail

STAGE 2

Specialist Medical

Centre

STAGE 3

Private Hospital with

airbridge to public

hospital

Activating Sustainably within Precincts
PRECINCT STRATEGY ALIGNED WITH SUSTAINBILITY STRATEGY

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PLAYFORD HEALTH HUB

The Playford Health Hub will be an engaging community space that links

people to a healthy, vibrant and active life through a culture of wellness and

connection to nature. The Stage 2 Specialist Medical Centre actively seeks

to address sustainability including targeting a 6 star green-star rating. The

centrewill:

▸Be fully electric with the removal of all fossil fuels from

the building; and

▸Have a zero operational energy carbon footprint for

landlord controlled areas achieved through off-site

100% renewable energy.

Embodied carbon modelling has been undertaken with opportunities to

reduce the embodied carbon footprint of the building being activated within

the design.A Climate Change Adaptation Plan has also been developed,

identifying and responding to forecast impacts of climate change.

The Specialist Medical Centre will actively respond and positively contribute

to the environment in which it sits.

Artist’s impression of ~$165m

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Playford Health Hub in Adelaide

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Includes base build and hard fit-out costs

Balance Sheet Strengthened
NEW DEBT AND EQUITY RAISED OVER LAST 12 MONTHS

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▸Tranches totallingA$175m secured on 7 year

terms, including the introduction of a new financier

to further improve lender diversity

▸Tranches totallingA$40m secured for a term of 5

years

▸A$100m multi-currency tranche for a 2.5 year term

▸Vital'snext refinancing event is in FY23

▸Successful completion of $115m Placement, fully

underwritten at $2.90 per unit (3.7% discount to 12

October 21 closing price)

▸Nearly two times oversubscribed

▸Allotment of 39,655,172 units for the Placement

occurred on 20 October 2021

▸UPP for $27.8m closed on 3 November 2021 at an

issue price of $2.852

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2.5% discount to the volume weighted average price of Vital units traded on the NZX during the five

days up to and including 3 November 2021

Debt facility extension and expansionEquity raising

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Annual Financial Statements
Grace Hospital

Tauranga, NZ

Questions
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ASKING QUESTIONS

Re-election of
Andrew Evans

Andrew Evans

Independent Director

Voting
RESOLUTION 1 – THAT ANDREW EVANS BE RE-ELECTED AS AN INDEPENDENTDIRECTOR OF NORTHWEST

HEALTHCARE PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED, THE MANAGER OF VITAL HEALTHCARE PROPERTY TRUST

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Vo t e Ty p eUnits Voted

% of Units

Voted

% of Total

Units

For

270,887,25889.9647.11

Against

22,472,2517.443.91

Discretionary

8,658,9722.871.51

Abstain

11,107,686N/A1.93

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General Business

Ascot Hospital
Auckland, NZ

Closing Remarks

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING

TODAY’S ANNUAL MEETING

Disclaimer
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This presentation has been prepared by NorthWestHealthcare Properties

Management Limited (the "Manager") as manager of the Vital Healthcare Property

Trust (the "Trust"). The details in this presentation provide general information only. It

is not intended as investment , legal, tax or financial advice or recommendation to

any person and must not be relied on as such. You should obtain independent

professional advice prior to making any decision relating to your investment or

financial needs.

This presentation may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking

statements can include words such as “expect”, “intend”, “plan”, “believe”,

“continue” or similar words in connection with discussions of future operating or

financial performance or conditions. The forward-looking statements are based on

management's and directors’ current expectations and assumptions regarding the

Trust’s business, assets and performance and other future conditions, circumstances

and results. As with any projection or forecast, forward-looking statements are

inherently susceptible to uncertainty and to any changes in circumstances. The Trust’s

actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-

looking statements. The Manager, the Trust, and its or their directors, employees

and/or shareholders have no liability whatsoever to any person for any loss arising

from this presentation or any information supplied in connection with it. The Manager

and the Trust are under no obligation to update this presentation or the information

contained in it after it has been released. Past performance is no indication of future

performance.

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PO Box 6945, Victoria Street West,
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INDEPENDENT CHAIR & FUND

MANAGER ADDRESS FOR THE

ANNUAL MEETING

The following are the addresses of the Independent Chair and the Fund

Manager for the Vital Healthcare Property Trust Annual Meeting held on

a fully virtual basis through the Computershare Meeting Platform

https://meetnow.global/NZ on Wednesday, 24 November 2021

commencing at 10.00am.

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Slide 1 – Cover slide

GRAHAM:

Welcome to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Vital Healthcare Property

Trust.

My name is Graham Stuart, and I am the Independent Chair of Vital

Healthcare Property Trust. Vital’s Supervisor has appointed me as Chair

of this meeting.


As you are aware, we are hosting a virtual meeting this year and as this

is our first fully virtual meeting, please accept our apologies in advance

if we experience any technological issues or if the meeting flow is

different from usual.

Today’s meeting is being held online via the Computershare Online

Meetings platform. This allows Unitholders, proxyholders and guests to

attend the meeting virtually. All attendees can watch a live webcast of

the meeting and read the associated company documents. In addition,

Unitholders and proxies have the ability to ask questions and submit

votes.



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Slide 2 – Questions Instructions

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submit during the live meeting, please select the Q&A tab on the right

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Computershare on 0800-650-034.

Please note that while you can submit questions from now on, I will not

address them until the relevant time in the meeting. Please also note

that your questions may be moderated or if we receive multiple

questions on one topic, amalgamated. Finally, due to time constraints

we may run out of time to answer all your questions. If this happens, we

will answer them in due course via email/posting responses on our

website.

Voting today will be conducted by way of a poll on all items of business.

In order to provide you with enough time to vote, I will shortly open the

voting for all resolutions.

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Slide 3 – Voting Instructions

If you are eligible to vote at this meeting, you will be able to cast your

vote under the Vote tab. Once the voting has opened, the resolutions

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‘Change Your Vote’. You have the ability to change your vote, up until

the time I declare voting closed.

The Notice of Annual Meeting has been circulated to all Unitholders. It

sets the scope of what we are scheduled to discuss today and includes

the details of the one resolution we are due to consider.

I am pleased to confirm that there is a quorum present and I declare the

2021 Annual Meeting of Unitholders of Vital Healthcare Property Trust

open. The resolutions will now be open in the vote tab, please submit



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your votes at any time. I will give you a warning before I move to close

voting.

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Slide 4 – Meeting Agenda

The order for the meeting is as follows:

 following general introductions, I will give my address;

 following my address, I will introduce Aaron Hockly to give his

Fund Manager’s address;

 Aaron will then table the Annual Financial Statements, following

which Aaron will pass back to me to invite questions on any

matter regarding the Trust or the presentations other than Andrew

Evan’s re-election;

 we then move to the formal business being the proposed

resolution that Andrew Evans be re-elected as an Independent

Director of NorthWest Healthcare Properties Management Ltd,

Vital’s Manager, which will include an address by Andrew and

any questions on his proposed re-election;

 after voting is complete, we have an opportunity for general

business and I will invite you to ask any other relevant questions

you may have;

 we will then conclude the meeting.

Copies of the minutes of last year’s Annual Meeting are available on

Vital’s website vhpt.co.nz.

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Slide 5 – Board of the Manager

I will now introduce to you who we have on-line today. The full Board of

the Manager is attending, let me introduce

Paul Dalla Lana, Andrew

Evans, Craig Mitchell, attending his first Unitholders ’meeting as a

director of the Manager, and

Dr Michael Stanford.



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Slide 6 – In Attendance

I would also like to welcome:

Vital’s Fund Manager, Aaron Hockly

Along with, Justine Wealleans and Evan Kennerly from Trustees

Executors Limited, the Supervisor of the Trust

Silvio Brunisma from Deloitte, the auditors of the Trust, and

Toby Sharpe from Bell Gully, legal advisers to the Manager.

We also have several of NorthWest’s senior executive team attending,

including:

Chris Adams, Executive Director - Projects,

Alex Belcastro, Senior Vice President – Medical Precincts

Michael Groth, Chief Financial Officer,

Vanessa Flax, Regional General Counsel and Company Secretary, and

Richard Roos, Executive Director – Portfolio.

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Slide 7 – Address of the Independent Chair of the Manager

Following another very successful year for the Trust, it gives me great

pleasure to deliver this address as Independent Chair of the Manager.


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Slide 8 – Comparative Returns

As shown on the graph in the presentation in front of you, Vital once

again outperformed both the NZX50 index and the NZX All Real Estate

indices and recorded a 13.2% total return for the 12 months ended 30

September 2021.

This significant outperformance highlights the defensive nature of

healthcare real estate compared to other real estate classes and the



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resilience of hospital operators, at a time where COVID 19 has

impacted the wider economy.

This resilience led to over 99% of rent of being collected over the last

12 months; well above our peers in New Zealand and Australia with a

majority of Vital’s tenants having recovered to pre-pandemic operating

levels.

Despite COVID-19, we were able to raise 157.5 million dollars in

October and November 2021 from a significantly oversubscribed equity

raising. The capital will be used to fund Vital’s strategic objectives which

in turn will provide future earnings growth for Unitholders.

Vital paid 8.875 cents per unit in distributions over the 2021 financial

year and we have provided guidance of 9.5 cents for the current

financial year.

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Slide 9 – Key achievements over the last 12 months

The past year has been a very active one for your Board,

notwithstanding the impacts of COVID-19, interest rates at historic low

levels and large amounts of liquidity in our markets that have intensified

competition for quality real estate assets.

Last year we announced our new 5-year portfolio strategy, that included

ambitious targets for earnings (AFFO) growth per unit, investment

strategy including asset types, asset allocations, development exposure,

asset locations and other key quantitative and qualitative factors.

This year the Manager supported by the NorthWest teams in Australasia

and Canada has pursued this strategy in a disciplined and focussed

manner.

In October and November last year we successfully raised 157.5 million

dollars by way of an Institutional Placement and a Unit Purchase Plan,

both of which were well oversubscribed.

Since balance date we have successfully raised a further 142.8 million

dollars of equity through an oversubscribed 115 million dollar

Institutional Placement and a 27.8 million dollar Unit Purchase Plan.



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Late last year we announced the 95 million dollar acquisition of Grace

Hospital in Tauranga as well as two divestments in NSW and one in

Tasmania totalling 100 million dollars.

In February we announced the acquisition of a 5,333m2 development

site in Box Hill, Melbourne that will accommodate an ambitious

expansion of Epworth Eastern private hospital over time.

In June we announced the 83 million dollar acquisition of Epworth

Camberwell private hospital in Melbourne.

We also announced the acquisition of three further development

properties, one in Brisbane, one on the Gold Coast and one in

Auckland. These development properties will support the achievement of

our 5-year strategic goals.

These acquisitions and divestments represent a small part of the activity

undertaken this past year; Aaron Hockly will provide greater detail in his

report.

The Board has also focussed on several key governance and other

initiatives over the last 12 months.

I was appointed as Independent Chair at the conclusion of the last

Unitholders’ meeting in November last year.

Bernard Crotty retired from the Board in June this year and was

replaced by Craig Mitchell.

Bernard served on the Board of the Manager for 9 years, a period in

which the Trust has seen very significant growth and investment returns

consistently above those achieved by the NZX 50 and the NZX All Real

Estate indices.

I take this opportunity to thank Bernard for his service.

Craig brings a strong background in real estate and development to the

Board. He is the Regional CEO of NorthWest, Australia, and New

Zealand, as well as President of NorthWest REIT. His previous roles



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include being CEO for one of Australia's largest private construction

groups and COO for one of Australia's largest listed property groups.

The Board is coming to the end of a phase of renewal, with myself, Dr

Stanford and Craig all being appointed within the past 3 years.

The Board is conscious of the need to balance institutional knowledge

and continuity with fresh ideas and new perspectives and will continue

to ensure that we have the right mix of skills and experience around the

Board table to manage the fund and serve Unitholders’ interests well.

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Slide 10 – Address of the Fund Manager

It is my pleasure to now introduce Aaron Hockly, Vital’s Fund Manager.


AARON: Thank you Graham.

Kia ora koutou katoa. Good morning everyone.

I would to start by thanking the Board and staff of Vital’s Manager as

well the wider NorthWest team both in this region and globally. It has

been a very challenging year primarily due to the on-going impacts of

COVID-19. As you will be aware, this has continued to have a

significant impact people and their families and their day-to-day living

including our staff. Most of my colleagues in this region are located in

Melbourne, a wonderful city familiar with being the global leader in

many things. However, being the most locked down city in the world

over the past year has not been a cause of celebration. Our other two

key regional offices in Auckland and Sydney have also experienced and

continue to experience lockdowns and other significant impacts. My

experiences of homeschooling over the last few months have certainly

helped me empathize with how much peoples’ lives have been

upended.

Despite these challenges we have continued to achieve significant

success both in the financial and operating results I will touch on shortly

but also in setting up the Trust for future success.



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Much work has been undertaken across all areas from risk, to branding,

to staff development, and most importantly for Unitholders the portfolio

itself including leasing, acquisitions, asset sales, developments and

sustainability.

I would also like to acknowledge our tenants including hospital

operators, aged care operators and other specialist medical, diagnostic,

nursing, and therapeutic providers. Lockdowns and other COVID-19

related restrictions have presented significant challenges for healthcare

providers. In spite of these challenges, our operating partners have

continued to provide outstanding care for communities across Australia

and New Zealand. Private healthcare operators play a key role in the

healthcare ecosystems of both countries from medical imaging to

surgery to caring for people at the start and ends of their lives. These

are services which our public systems rely on to function and this has

been highlighted through the pandemic.

As a final initial acknowledgement, thank you to public health providers

across Australia and New Zealand particularly front-line health workers.

As challenging as the last few months have been for all of us, we should

be very grateful for the people who kept us safe, worked even longer

shifts than normal and who continue to put community needs ahead of

their own.

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Slide 11 – Operational Highlights

Since I presented to you 12 months ago, Vital has recorded success

across all key areas. In FY21, we delivered 11.54 cents per unit in

AFFO or cash earnings; 10.4% above FY20. We remain on track to

achieve guidance of at least 11.8 cents per unit this financial year which

is over 2% year on year growth and within our target of 2-3% growth

per unit per annum.

Growth in AFFO has enabled us to continue to grow distributions to

Unitholders which we are guiding at 9.5 cents per unit; 7% above the

last financial year.



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This growth in earnings and distributions per unit is despite raising

capital to lower balance sheet gearing to a conservative 34%.

Vital’s enviable portfolio of high-quality hospitals and other health and

aged care facilities continues to support dependable and growing

unitholder returns. Key features include a market-leading weighted

average lease expiry term otherwise known as WALE or WALT of over

18 years to some of Australasia’s leading healthcare operators. We

have continued to enhance the portfolio through the sale of non-core

assets and over 60,000 square metres of leasing.

The strong performance of our tenants enabled over 99% of rent to be

collected over the last 12 months.

Acquisitions and developments are a key source of future earnings

growth for Unitholders, and we are seeking to continue to prudently

grow the portfolio. Over 430 million dollars of acquisitions were

completed over the last 12 months representing over 20% of the

portfolio value. These acquisitions include large income producing

assets as well as sites that we will develop for healthcare operators in

coming years.

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Slide 12 – Property Portfolio

At 31 October, Vital’s portfolio was valued at 2.7 billion dollars across

42 assets in New Zealand and Australia. This bulk of this value is

comprised of private hospitals but with an important and growing

exposure to ambulatory and aged care facilities. We will look to expand

across all three of these subsectors potentially adding life sciences

should appropriate opportunities become available.

This 2.7-billion-dollar portfolio valuation is before any changes to

market capitalisation rates or other revaluations which may be recorded

at 31 December, noting that Australia in particular is continuing to see

significant cap rate compression for healthcare properties. Our

weighted average cap rate of 4.86% compares favourably against many

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As noted previously, we have continued to replenish our development

pipeline. Committed developments currently totals 460.2 million dollars

with 276 million dollars or work left to complete. We are targeting

having 10-15% of the portfolio under development at any time allowing

us to continue to deliver market-leading healthcare facilities particularly

as models of care evolve and community expectations around

sustainability increase.


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Slide 13 – 5 Ye a r Portfolio Strategy

We have continued to deploy Vital’s 5-year portfolio strategy which at its

core seeks to continue to deliver earnings and valuation growth for our

Unitholders. 18 months ago we had been targeting increasing the

portfolio’s value to around 3 billion dollars over 5 years. This seemed

ambitious at the time, however we have made and continue to make

substantial progress on delivering this. Importantly, the portfolio strategy

does not seek growth for growth’s sake but growth to enhance

unitholder returns and includes the sale of assets to improve the overall

portfolio. To this end, over $100m of assets were sold over the last 12

months at a premium to book value.

In addition to the 286 million dollars of acquisitions completed over

FY21, we recently acquired Tennyson Centre in Adelaide for 93 million

Australian dollars. Tennyson Centre is one of South Australia’s leading

cancer centres of excellence and we have already agreed to extend the

lease of one of the core tenants by 10 years.

We are also in the process of acquiring Hutt Valley Health Hub in

Wellington for approximately 46.5 million dollars with pricing

dependent on the amount of development land included. This asset is

adjacent to Vital’s existing asset Boulcott Hospital and forms part of the

Hutt Hospital precinct. We will look to master plan these sites, including

the development land we own here, in conjunction with the hospital

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Finally, we sold Gold Coast Surgical Centre for 13 million Australian

dollars; approximately 5% above its book value. This removed several

existing and potential vacancies from the portfolio.

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Slide 14 – New Zealand Hospital Developments

We are fortunate to have exceptional relationships with hospital

operators. In New Zealand, this includes the three largest private

hospital operators who together. We have recently agreed terms with

two of these, Evolution Healthcare and Southern Cross, to undertake 74

million dollars of additional developments at their existing facilities

including:

 Grace Hospital in Tauranga which we acquired in late 2020,

 Royston Hospital and the neighbouring day surgery unit in

Hastings, and

 Wakefield and Bowen Hospitals in Wellington.

All of these expansions are supported by very favourable business cases

and the strength and closeness of our relationship with these operators

means that we can adjust our support as required. An example of this is

Wakefield Hospital where we are building not just for immediate use but

with significant expansion capacity in light of the strong and growing

demand for Evolution’s services. Our relationship with Evolution is built

on trust and transparency and is one of our key and growing

relationships.

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Slide 15 – Delivering Value for Unitholders

Playford Health Hub is an example of what Vital is known best for –

development and delivery of world-class healthcare precincts.

Acquired in two stages, this property was originally a dilapidated

shopping centre. Its location next to one of South Australia’s main

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expertise made it an excellent acquisition and development target

consistent with our precinct and portfolio strategies.

Construction of the first stage of this development, primarily carparking

for the public hospital majority leased to the South Australian

government completed this month at a total cost of 24 million

Australian dollars.

We will commence construction of stage two, a 49 million Australian

dollar specialist medical centre 60% pre-leased, in mid-2022.

Earlier today, we announced that we have signed an MoU with Calvary

Healthcare, one of Australia’s leading catholic hospital and aged care

operators, to lease and operate a new 93 million Australian dollar

private hospital which will comprise stage 3 of this development. Vital’s

investment in this precinct will be in excess of 130 million dollars with

healthcare operators, notably Calvary, also investing significant capital

in the precinct.

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Slide 16 – Activating Sustainability within Precincts

It goes without saying that sustainability is growing in importance

globally. To date, healthcare and healthcare property has lagged other

sectors in terms of sustainable development. However, this is rapidly

changing. We note the sustainability commitments by governments and

hospital operators as well as growing demands from our Unitholders

and other stakeholders.

Vital participated in the Carbon Disclosure Project or CDP for the

second time this year. We expect to participate in the Global Real Estate

Sustainability Benchmark or GRESB in 2022. We are using the learnings

and results of these external benchmarks to improve our sustainability

performance particularly in relation to the environmental impact of our

buildings.

The most meaningful contribution we can make is our developments

particularly those where we retain operational control of the building as

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medical centre is targeting a 6 star green star rating, will be fully electric

and will have a zero operational energy carbon footprint.

It is also important to note that Playford Health Hub, like most of our

facilities, will play a key role in the health and wellbeing of the

community’s residents. The project is being delivered in conjunction with

partners such as SA Health and Calvary who are positively contributing

to community wellbeing.

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Slide 17 – Balance Sheet Strengthened

Finally, to our capital providers including Unitholders and debt providers

without whom we obviously could not exist and who supported a

significant strengthening of our balance sheet over the last 12 months.

Our debt funders, currently all banks, increased from two to five during

the year with debt maturities extended. We have also reset our debt

facilities to enable a long-term debt capital markets issuance and are

aiming to undertake our first issuance this financial y e a r.

We undertook a 115 million dollar Placement in October 2021 almost

solely to existing Unitholders.

The issue price was 2 dollars and 90 cents; slightly above NTA and a

3.7% discount to the previous trading price representing one of the

tightest discounts of any recent equity raising.

The Placement was nearly two times oversubscribed and was scaled

back based on unitholder holdings on the record date.

NorthWest committed to taking up at least its pro-rata and the balance

was fully underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Forsyth B a r r.

To enable retail holders not represented by a sharebroker to participate

in the capital raising, we undertook a follow-on unit purchase plan or

UPP at a slight discount to the placement. The initial 25 million dollars

we had allocated for the UPP was oversubscribed so we elected to

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oversubscription. This enabled 100% of Unitholders who elected to

participate to do so at the full amount of their application. Nearly 5,000

individual Unitholders participated in the U P P, the vast majority of whom

were retail holders.

The 142.8 million dollars raised through the Placement and the UPP

has reduced balance sheet gearing to approximately 34% although the

proceeds will ultimately be used to fund Vital’s development pipeline.

Thank you to our institutional and retail investors as well as our debt

providers for your on-going support.

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Slide 18 – Annual Financial Statements

The Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 30 June

2021 have been circulated to all Unitholders and are now formally

tabled at the meeting.


I will now pass back to our Chair Graham Stuart.

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Slide 19 – Questions

GRAHAM:


Thank you, Aaron.


If there are any questions relating to the Tr u s t or the presentations now is

the opportunity to raise them. Only Unitholders or proxyholders are

permitted to ask questions. Yo u may ask questions through the

Computershare platform. Questions will be moderated by

Independent

Director, Dr Michael Stanford who will read questions aloud for all to

h e a r.


Those wanting to ask a question online, please do so as early as

possible to ensure it is received and answered.



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In consideration for other Unitholders, we ask that any questions that

relate to your personal situation or unitholding be dealt with outside of

the meeting with management via email or phone.


Repeated questions or questions that have already been answered may

not be put to the meeting.


Thank you for your questions and comments.

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Slide 20 – Re-election of Andrew Evans

I would now like to move to the formal business of the Meeting, the

proposed re-election of Andrew Evans.

The vote will be conducted by poll comprising the proxies lodged in

advance of the meeting and votes lodged through the Computershare

platform.

I would like to invite Andrew to address the meeting.


ANDREW: [Andrew’s address]

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Slide 21 – Voting

GRAHAM:

Thank you, Andrew. The details of the proxies received on this re-

election are on the screen. If I am

appointed as proxy to vote and not

directed on how to vote, I will vote in favour of this resolution.



Please can I ask you now to cast your vote by clicking “for ”, “against” or

“abstain” through the Computershare platform. Your vote has been cast

when the green tick appears. To change your vote, simply select

‘Change Your Vote’. You have the ability to change your vote, up until

the time I declare voting closed, and a reminder will be given 20

seconds on screen before I close voting. Once voting has closed, you

will not be able to amend your vote.



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While votes are being cast, we welcome you to watch a flythrough of

the Playford Health Hub precinct.


[Playford Health Hub Flythrough]


Voting is now closed.


The results of these votes will be released to the stock exchange later

today.

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Slide 22 – General Business

I will now open the meeting for any general business.

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Slide 23 – Closing Remarks

There being no further business, may I wish you all a merry and COVID-

free festive season and a healthy and prosperous New Ye a r.

Thank you for attending the meeting today.

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