Fair Oaks Income Fund Limited
3 November 2015
FAIR OAKS INCOME FUND LIMITED (the "Company")
(Incorporated in Guernsey under The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008, as amended, with registered number 58123 and registered as a Registered Closed-ended Collective Investment Scheme with the Guernsey Financial Services Commission)
Portfolio Update
Fair Oaks Income Fund Limited (the "Company") is pleased to announce that Fair Oaks Income Fund LP (the "Master Fund") has entered into binding contracts to acquire, in the primary market, $25.5 million notional of equity notes, representing 66% of the total equity, and $10.0 million notional of Class F notes of Neuberger Berman CLO XX, a new CLO backed by a portfolio of US broadly syndicated, secured loans.
The manager of this CLO's portfolio is Neuberger Berman, a leading global alternative asset manager with $237 billion of assets under management.
This CLO's current target portfolio has a principal value of $500 million across an expected 133 unique bank loan issuers, with an expected weighted average exposure per issuer of approximately 1.01%.
The potential total return for this investment as estimated by the general partner of the Master Fund (the "General Partner") is between 15% and 16% per annum (see Note 1).
Enquiries:
Fair Oaks Income Fund Limited
Email: contact@fairoaksincomefund.com
Web: www.fairoaksincomefund.com
Fair Oaks Capital Limited
Miguel Ramos Fuentenebro
Roger Coyle
DDI: +44 (0) 20 3034 0400
Email: mrf@fairoakscap.com
Praxis Fund Services Limited
Ben Le Prevost
DDI: +44 (0) 1481 755524
Email: Ben.LePrevost@praxisgroup.com
Camarco
Edward Gascoigne-Pees
Hazel Stevenson
DDI: +44 (0) 203757 4989
Email: ed.gascoigne-pees@camarco.co.uk / hazel.stevenson@camarco.co.uk
Numis Securities Limited
Nathan Brown, Corporate Broking
DDI: +44 (0) 20 7260 1426
Email: n.brown@numis.com
Fair Oaks Income Fund Limited
Fair Oaks Income Fund Limited is an authorised closed-ended investment company incorporated in Guernsey. The Company was admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange on 12 June 2014. The Company's ordinary shares have the TIDM: FAIR and ISIN: GG00BMBN1D14 and the C shares have the TIDM: FAIC and ISIN: GG00BYM6LJ91.
The investment policy of the Company is to seek exposure to US and European CLOs or other vehicles and structures which provide exposure to portfolios consisting primarily of US and European floating-rate senior secured loans and which may include non-recourse financing. The Company will implement its investment policy by investing in FOIF LP (the "Master Fund").
The investment objective of the Company is to generate attractive, risk-adjusted returns, principally through income distributions. The Company announced on 16 January 2015 that (1) on the basis of income projections as at that date, the Board planned to declare eleven monthly dividends of a minimum of 0.7 US cents per share (see Note 1) and a larger twelfth interim dividend such that, in the opinion of the Directors, substantially all net income generated by the Company in 2015 is distributed to shareholders; and (2) the Company will continue to target an annual net total return of 12-14% (see Note 1) over the planned life of the Master Fund and it is expected that dividends will constitute the principal element of the return to the Company's shareholders.
Notes
1) The General Partner's estimate of the potential total return for this investment in calculated across certain scenarios and subject to certain assumptions. This and any other references herein to potential future returns or distributions are targets and not forecasts and there can be no guarantee or assurance that they will be achieved.
2) This document is for information purposes only and is not an offer to invest. All investments are subject to risk. Past performance is no guarantee of future returns. Prospective investors are advised to seek expert legal, financial, tax and other professional advice before making any investment decisions.