Good morning. Stephen Abbott, Company Secretary at PSC Insurance Group here. Welcome to the 2021 annual general meeting of PSC Insurance Group Limited. Just some preliminary information for this meeting. Just as many shareholders logged into today's meeting, this will be their first virtual meeting. Just a few points of guidance here. This meeting is being conducted by audio only with a web presentation. Shareholders who have not already voted via proxy should now have obtained a voting card. All resolutions will be decided by poll. You can vote on each resolution at any time. You do not need to wait for each resolution to be read. Voting will remain open for five minutes after the conclusion of the meeting. If you are a shareholder and have already proxy voted, you can revote that vote and vote again if you so wish. Also, please ensure you submit your votes before exiting the meeting. The other thing is that on the notice, as per the notice of meeting, the Chair will be voting all open votes in favor of the resolutions being put. Details of voting on each resolution will be announced to the ASX as soon as available after the meeting has concluded. You may, however, have an indication of the outcome of each resolution from the Chairman's proxy position on the bottom of each resolution slide. To ask a question during the meeting, there's the Ask a Question button on the web portal. We ask that questions be kept relevant to the meeting today. We'll also endeavor to answer all relevant questions. Thank you, and I'll now hand over to our Chairman, Brian Austin. Thank you, Stephen. Good morning to all our shareholders. The shareholders in the U.K., good evening, and welcome to the annual general meeting of PSC Insurance Group Limited for 2021. My name is Brian Austin, and I am the Chairman of PSC Insurance Group. We were optimistic until early August that we would have been able to get back to holding a physical meeting this year. As we have all experienced the last 18 months or so, circumstances can change quickly. Thank you to all our shareholders who have joined this virtual meeting. All things getting back to normal, we anticipate we will be holding a physical meeting this time next year. On the line here today are my fellow directors of the board: Paul Dwyer, Deputy Chairman; Tony Robinson, Managing Director; Tara Falk, Executive Director; John Dwyer, Executive Director; Mel Sims, Non-Executive Director; Joanne Dawson, Non-Executive Director; James Kalbassi, Executive Director. Welcome to my directors, and especially Mel, Tara, and James have joined us from the U.K., and we thank them for being available late on a Sunday night. It's about 10:30 P.M., Sunday night in London. I'd also like to welcome the attendance of some of our senior management team. Joshua Reid, CFO, who will be speaking today, David Hosking, CEO, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, Noel Lenihan, our CEO from PSC UK, Angus McPhie, Managing Director, Paragon, UK, Julia Mitchell, Group Manager, Governance and Compliance, Rohan Stewart, Group Manager, People and Innovation, Patrick Miller, CEO, PSC Insurance Brokers, Adam Burgess, CEO, Agency and Wholesale, and Tony Walker, CEO, PSC Connect. Welcome everybody for our virtual meeting. I would also like to welcome our auditor, Tim Dring from EY, who's independent. I am pleased to advise that your company has once again been able to achieve another record underlying earnings result for the financial year ended June 2021 as our company continued to grow. We came into the financial year 2021 with very challenging times, of which I'm sure all shareholders would appreciate. The challenges that we have faced have been far greater and longer than we first estimated. However, we have endured as a community various government-imposed lockdowns and restrictions, which have given us more challenges. Added to this, we have had a hard market for insurance with our brokers finding placement capacity depleted and underwriting or underwriter response times extended. Financial year 2021, however, proves a testament to the resilience of our clients, the quality of our businesses, and the agility and determination of our staff. I and the board are very proud of our people, both employees and AOs across all of our offices in Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. We have made a number of acquisitions throughout the year in all regions in which we operate, and I now take the opportunity to welcome all of those to PSC Insurance Group. Tony will talk in more detail about some of the acquisitions that we've done over the past 12 months, and Josh will cover the financial results. Thank you to my fellow directors for their continued commitment and support. Together, we thank all our PSC staff, ARs for their continued and passionate support in delivering for our customers. We also thank our clients for their loyalty, and I will now hand over to Tony Robinson, and we'll join you again to run through the day's formal part of the business once we've heard from the Managing Director and the CFO. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. We've got some just very simple messages for everyone because we are a very simple business. We are an insurance broking and insurance intermediary business that never changes. We continue to find ways to grow and opportunities to grow in those areas. We operate successfully. We think as Australia's only multinational broker. We operate in Australia and New Zealand, the United Kingdom, with headquarters out of the United Kingdom bringing premiums back from the U.S. so that we've exposure to that U.S. market as well, and also in Hong Kong. Hopefully some of our people in Hong Kong are on the line as well. We are Australia's only multinational broker operating in those regions. Hong Kong's a small step. New Zealand's growing really successfully, as is UK, and Australia. As I said, one of the things that we're most proud of is the fact that we are very disciplined about what we do and sticking to what we defined many years ago as the strategy of the business, which is to be an insurance broking and insurance intermediary business. Our growth aspirations, our next slide, is just talking a little bit about the growth aspirations for the business. We've got a long history of delivering, and you know, that's obviously our intent. We've spoken about doubling our earnings before interest, tax, and depreciation over the next four-year period. We're very comfortable that that's a great stake in the ground for us. That future growth will come both as a consequence of acquisitions and organic growth. Organic growth's an incredibly important part of our strategy. It's the path that delivers the best shareholder value. As an organization, it's also the piece that drives the culture and behaviors in the business. The acquisitions are the cream on top of that. We always say that the acquisitions supplement organic growth. There's an important part to sort of repeat on the acquisitions, which in our mind, that we acquire the profit streams, but we merge the business and we recruit the people. Very quickly, the people that we're bringing into the business help create that strength in organic growth. We're always looking to make sure that when we're looking at businesses, we're confident they're gonna fit in and become part of that for PSC strategy of and make a contribution to delivering organic growth. Again, in summary, we continue to do what we've always done, which is to be a successful insurance broking and insurance intermediary business. We're a multinational in that we've got operating in limited regions, but they are the regions where we've got expertise and believe we can create shareholder value. We remain a very aspirational organization and targeting to continue to grow at the same rate as we have historically, and that includes trying to double the EBITDA over a four-year period. I'll let Josh now talk a little bit about that history and, you know, give you some information on how consistently we've performed and therefore why you should be confident about the expectations of performance in the future. Josh, over to you. Thanks, very much, Tony. Good morning to everybody. Moving on to the track record of growth slide. Tony spoke of our history of aspiration and delivery, and the confidence that gives us confidence looking forward. This really shows that story in pictures. We obviously like it very much. It shows that the key earnings metrics, in particular revenue, EBITDA and Net Profit After Tax in particular, are all greater than 20%. In most cases, over 25%. Therefore, the context of the doubling in four years, you know, is something that is certainly in line with our history. What this also shows is the shareholders that we're a strong income payer. It's, you know, we've been able to deliver strong income growth for our shareholders, but also capital growth evidenced through the growth in the earnings per share. We think this is just a neat way to show that history and does hopefully give confidence for our ability to deliver into those aspirations Tony spoke of. Moving to the specific 2021 year. It was another very busy and successful year for the Group. In particular, some items to cover off. Very strong organic growth. Also we completed three U.K. retail broking acquisitions, which strongly advanced our stated strategy in this market. As it relates to the results specifically, revenue was up 17%, AUD 207 million. Underlying EBITDA up 25%, AUD 72 million. Underlying net profit after tax before amortization up 22% to a little under AUD 46 million. Good earnings per share growth of 8% to AUD 0.10 a share. The reported net profit after tax increased materially to AUD 41 million from AUD 18 million the prior year. There was very strong operating performance, which we've already touched on. Outside of that, there was strong growth in the fair value of our B.P. Marsh shares in particular, which we obviously exclude from underlying profit, but it was a fantastic result regardless. Offset by some charges relating to the APG restructure in the U.K. Now moving on to the balance sheet. The balance sheet is and remains in a very strong position. During the course of the year, book equity increased to AUD 100 million, which supported our acquisition activity. That will flow through some raisings in the market, but also some of the vendors taking shares in the company. Of particular note, the cash conversion of 100% was a record position for the group, which led to a 61% increase in operating cash flow to AUD 44 million, which was a really strong result. Target gearing, as measured by the net leverage ratio, was approximately 2x at year-end, inside our target range of 2x-2.5x. Now these metrics, they exclude the value of on-balance sheet investments, which at the end of the year had a market value of approximately AUD 60 million. For those of you that follow us closely will have noted those investment assets were predominantly the B.P. Marsh shares, AUD 45 million, plus the buildings here in East Melbourne were the main items there. The balance sheet is in very good shape. In particular, moving on to the next slide, we're pleased to announce today in that regard, we've announced this morning that we have a debt facility update which that was announced today. In particular, we've expanded our debt providers so that we now have five high-quality providers in our debt facility being CBA and Macquarie, and HSBC and Citi are joining the funding panels via an expanded syndicated facility agreement. We're also having Pricoa, which is a large multinational debt funder and a subsidiary of Prudential, joining via a note agreement. There's been an increase in limits to AUD 265 million, which will allow us AUD 90 million in future drawdown capacity. The average tenor of the facilities has increased to 5.5 years. Importantly, this will generate annual savings of approximately AUD 3 million a year on our interest costs. Probably more importantly, it's a real furthering the cap of what we're sort of looking for in our medium-term strategy with having those funders on board places us very well over the medium term to pursue our M&A strategy. That was all from me. Handing back to Tony to speak about the outlook. Thank you, Josh. It's also a tribute to Josh, who did all of the work in drawing that debt facility together, and it's a wonderful strengthening of our capital position. The outlook, we've had a strong first quarter of trading across all businesses. We're ahead of budget in the first quarter. The debt refinancing will reduce the cost of funds for the group and increases our confidence of the after-tax profit range we've previously provided to the group. The recent acquisition of Alliance has added strength to our Australian broking businesses, and we welcome the Alliance team to the group. As I've said before, we acquire the profit streams but merge the business and recruit the people. I know that we've got a great group of people joining us as part of that process. All that means we're very confident of the previous guidance of underlying EBIT in the AUD 84 million-AUD 89 million range and an underlying net profit after tax of AUD 54 million-AUD 58 million. With that, I'll hand back to Brian. Thank you, Tony. I'll now move on to the formal part of the meeting and see if the slide will follow me. Yep. Okay. As per the notice of meeting, the following are the formal agenda items for today's meeting. The non-voting agenda item is to consider the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2021. The ordinary resolutions to be voted upon. Resolution 1, Remuneration Report. Resolution 2, election of Non-Executive Director, Joanne Dawson. Resolution 3, election of Executive Director, James Kalbassi. Resolution 4, re-election of Non-Executive Director as well as Deputy Chairman, Mr. Paul Dwyer. Special Resolution to be voted on is Resolution 5, which is amendments to the Constitution, virtual meeting and rotation of directors. We'll move on to the first resolution. First item on the agenda is to receive and consider the financial report and the reports of the directors and the auditor for the financial year ended 30 June 2021. This item does not require a vote. However, the reports are open for discussion. I now invite shareholders to comment or ask questions on the reports. No questions. No questions. Our auditors, EY, have not received any questions directly either on this. Thank you. The remaining items of business are four ordinary resolutions and one special resolution. The first resolution, I'll read it for us all, is that for the purposes of Section 250R(2) of the Corporations Act and for all other purposes, approval is given by the shareholders for the adoption of the remuneration report as set out in the directors' report for the year ended 30th of June 2021. Voting exclusion, the company will disregard any vote cast by the company's named or key people named in the remuneration report and closely related parties, except where they hold proxies for shareholders eligible to vote. Does any shareholder have any questions on this resolution? I may add that the proxy votes accepted should be up on the slides that people in the virtual world can see. Are there any questions? No questions? No. Okay. For shareholders attending that have not already cast their vote on this resolution, I now call upon them to vote on this resolution. We move to resolution number 2. The second resolution is that for the purposes of Clause 15.6 of the Constitution and ASX Listing Rule 14.4, elect as a director Ms. Joanne Dawson, appointed as the Non-Executive Director since the last annual general meeting and being eligible offers herself for election. Does any shareholder have any question on this resolution? Again, the proxy vote should be on the slides. No questions. No questions. For shareholders attending that have not already cast their vote on this resolution, I now call upon them to vote on the resolution. Resolution 3 is the election of Executive Director, Mr. James Kalbassi. The third resolution is that for the purposes of Clause 15.6 of the Constitution and the ASX Listing Rule 14.4, elect as a Director Mr. James Kalbassi, who was appointed as an Executive Director since the last annual general meeting and being eligible, offers himself for election. Does any shareholder have any questions on this resolution? Again, the proxy votes already cast should be up on your slides. No questions? No questions. No questions. Okay. For shareholders attending that have not already cast their vote on this resolution, I now call upon them to vote on this resolution. We move to resolution 4 is the re-election of Non-Executive Director, Mr. Paul Dwyer. The fourth resolution is that for the purpose of Clause 15.6 of the Constitution and ASX Listing Rule 14.4, and for all other purposes, Mr. Paul Dwyer being a Non-Executive Director, he retires by rotation and being eligible, offers himself for re-election and be re-elected as a director of the company. Does any shareholder have any questions on this resolution? Again, the proxy votes should be up on the slide. No questions. No questions. Thank you. The shareholders attending that have not already cast their vote on this resolution. I now call upon them to vote on this resolution. We move to resolution number 5, amendments to the Constitution, virtual meetings and rotation of directors. This is a special resolution that must be passed by 70% of eligible votes cast at the meeting. The fifth resolution is that in accordance with Section 136(2) of the Corporations Act and for all other purposes, the company's constitution is proposed to be amended as set out in the explanatory memorandum with effect from the close of this meeting. Does any shareholder have any questions on this resolution? No questions. For shareholders attending that have already cast their vote on this resolution, I now call upon them to vote on this resolution. You're not gonna put up a fifth, please? Okay. This concludes the formal part of the meeting. Before closing the meeting, I ask, are there any final questions from shareholders? Still require a formal reclamation. Yeah. I need to know about shareholder base. Who's to blame? Yep. [cross talk] Yeah. I should say that. [cross talk] Yes, that's right. The question's being asked by Hugh Robertson, who is a shareholder, but also an advisor to the business. Yeah, it's a nice range. We like to think that as the year progresses, we get greater clarity about the, you know, and we'll add specificity to it. At the moment, it's the range that we gave at the start of the year and are comfortable repeating it. Thanks. We feel we all know that the market ignores the fall and focuses on the rise. The stakeholders and the board are mindful of that. Well, we're very happy reconfirming the range, but understand your explanation of what the market is focused on. Obviously we as a company too are focused on trying to get to that number. You also know, as a long-term shareholder and the other shareholders are on the line, this is a business with its profits weighted to the last quarter of you know, each financial year. You know, it's still some distance away and yeah, we're just very comfortable with the range as provided to the business at the start of the year, and we're confirming it for the moment. Thank you, Tony. Are there any other questions from any other shareholders? Can you think of any, Stephen, on the line? No, there's not. No. Okay. Well, given that there's no further questions, we'll conclude the meeting. We'll thank you again to all our shareholders who have joined today's meeting, and in particular to our U.K. shareholders who have and directors who have joined very late on a Sunday evening. As I mentioned before, voting will remain open for 5 minutes after the close of the meeting, and then the full results of the various votes et cetera will be put up on the ASX website by our company secretaries later today. There being no further business, I now declare the 2021 annual general meeting closed. I do look forward hopefully next year that we'll be able to have a formal meeting, a non-virtual meeting, a real meeting with all directors present in Australia, and we look forward to welcoming our colleagues in the U.K. and all other shareholders that reside in Australia. Thank you very much. Thanks for attending. Thanks. Thanks, Brian. Thank you.
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