TORONTO, ONTARIO — (Marketwired) — 08/09/13 — Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (NYSE: BAM) (TSX: BAM.A) (EURONEXT: BAMA)
Investors, analysts and other interested parties can access Brookfield Asset Management–s 2013 Second Quarter Results as well as the Shareholders– Letter and Supplemental Information on Brookfield–s website under the Investors/Financial Reports section at .
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Brookfield Asset Management Inc. today announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2013.
“Asset management fees increased 72% during the quarter and virtually all of our operating groups are performing well and positioned for growth. We closed a number of realizations and raised over $14 billion of fund commitments for new investments,” commented Bruce Flatt, CEO of Brookfield. “We are also seeing attractive opportunities to put money to work in all of our businesses.”
Financial Results
Our financial results reflect substantial increases in asset management fees as a result of higher capital under management; improved hydrology levels and higher spot market power pricing in our renewable power operations; and higher prices and volumes related to operations with exposure to the continuing U.S. housing recovery.
FFO for Brookfield shareholders increased to $464 million. Disposition gains included in FFO were $58 million in the current quarter compared to disposition losses of $87 million in the comparable 2012 quarter. This excludes gains which will be booked on a number of realizations which were closed after quarter end and therefore will be recorded in the third quarter.
FFO and net income for the six months ended June 30, 2013 were $1,153 million and $1,499 million, both of which increased substantially over the same period in the prior year.
Operating Highlights
We expanded our asset management franchise.
Our fee-bearing capital under management increased to approximately $78 billion, up 30% from year end. We held a final close on our $4.4 billion global opportunistic property fund and have already invested $1.1 billion of this capital in European, Australian and North American commercial properties. We continue to move forward with fundraising initiatives for other real asset strategies, marketing five private funds. We hold nearly $10 billion of committed client capital that can be invested across our platforms.
Our flagship listed entities expanded their operations and are well positioned for future growth in cash distributions and net asset value, which will increase our performance fee income.
We generated additional liquidity through asset sales, equity issuance, fund formations and debt financings.
We sold investments in timberlands, a utility and a paper and packaging company at attractive valuations. This generated $4.2 billion in gross proceeds, and increases liquidity by approximately $2.0 billion after repayment of project debt and distributions to private fund clients. Our retail property operations raised a total of $1.6 billion through asset sales including a 50% interest in two Las Vegas shopping malls and, subsequent to quarter end, a minority interest in a Brazilian shopping center company.
We continue to refinance debt at attractive long term rates. We refinanced $1.9 billion within our retail property portfolio, generating proceeds of $300 million, and $1.1 billion of refinancings in our commercial property portfolio, resulting in $500 million of proceeds.
We increased cash flow with operational improvements in all of our major businesses.
Our infrastructure business recorded a significant increase in traffic on its Australian railway, where cash flow doubled year-over-year after an expansion of the network. Our renewable power business achieved higher prices on sales of uncontracted spot power and experienced significant cash contributions from U.S. hydroelectric and wind assets acquired in the past nine months.
The continued recovery in U.S. housing markets resulted in strong performance from a number of our private equity investments. We continued to renew the mix of stores in our retail portfolio, and signed new leases at rates that were 7% higher than expiring leases. We signed 2.0 million square feet of new leases in our office property business at rates that were 8% higher than the previous rents.
We invested in growth opportunities in all our major operating businesses, increasing the capital deployed by both our listed entities and private funds.
We announced or completed acquisitions and capital expansions during the quarter, deploying $1 billion of capital on behalf of clients and Brookfield shareholders. We expect these businesses will make a significant contribution to our future cash flows and value increases.
In our property business, we acquired a European warehouse company with significant growth potential, broke ground on an office tower in Perth, Australia and moved forward with plans to acquire a portfolio of office buildings in downtown Los Angeles. Subsequent to quarter end, we launched construction of a flagship 2.4 million square foot office project in Calgary, with a leading energy company as our lead tenant. Our retail property business is investing $900 million on renovations at 24 properties, including flagship malls in Hawaii, Nevada and Arizona.
Our infrastructure group expects to complete construction of an $830 million electrical transmission system in Texas this quarter. Our renewable power business continues to advance new hydroelectric and wind projects in North and South America. In our private equity business, we continue to harvest capital from housing related businesses, while we acquired a Canadian cold storage company, made a loan to a mining company and invested in a number of businesses with exposure to the U.S. natural gas market.
Dividend Declaration
The Board of Directors declared a quarterly dividend of US$0.15 per share (representing US$0.60 per annum), payable on November 30, 2013, to shareholders of record as at the close of business on November 1, 2013. The Board also declared all of the regular monthly and quarterly dividends on its preferred shares.
Information on our dividends can be found on our website under Investors/Stock and Dividend Information.
Basis of Presentation
This news release and accompanying financial statements are based on International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”) unless otherwise noted and make reference to funds from operations, which is a non-IFRS measure.
Funds from operations is defined as net income prior to fair value changes, depreciation and amortization, and deferred income taxes, and includes certain disposition gains that are not otherwise included in net income as determined under IFRS. Funds from operations also include the company–s proportionate share of equity accounted investments– funds from operations. Brookfield uses funds from operations to assess its operating results and the value of its business and believes that many of its shareholders and analysts also find this measure of value to them.
Funds from operations and its per share equivalent are non-IFRS measures which do not have any standard meaning prescribed by IFRS and therefore may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other companies. The company provides additional information on the determination of funds from operations and a reconciliation between funds from operations and net income attributable to Brookfield shareholders, in the Supplemental Information available at .
Additional Information
The Letter to Shareholders and the company–s Supplemental Information for the three months ended June 30, 2013 contain further information on the company–s strategy, operations and financial results. Shareholders are encouraged to read these documents, which are available on the company–s website.
The attached statements are based primarily on information that has been extracted from our interim financial statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013, which have been prepared using IFRS. The amounts have not been audited and are not subject to review by Brookfield–s external auditor.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a global alternative asset manager with over $175 billion in assets under management. The company has over a 100-year history of owning and operating assets with a focus on property, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity. Brookfield offers a range of public and private investment products and services, and is co-listed on the New York and Toronto Stock Exchanges under the symbol BAM and BAM.A, respectively. For more information, please visit our website at .
Please note that Brookfield–s previous audited annual and unaudited quarterly reports have been filed on EDGAR and SEDAR and can also be found in the investor section of its website at . Hard copies of the annual and quarterly reports can be obtained free of charge upon request.
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Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated or implied by forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: the impact or unanticipated impact of general economic, political and market factors in the countries in which we do business; the behavior of financial markets, including fluctuations in interest and foreign exchange rates; global equity and capital markets and the availability of equity and debt financing and refinancing within these markets; strategic actions including dispositions; the ability to complete and effectively integrate acquisitions into existing operations and the ability to attain expected benefits; changes in accounting policies and methods used to report financial condition (including uncertainties associated with critical accounting assumptions and estimates); the effect of applying future accounting changes; business competition; operational and reputational risks; technological change; changes in government regulation and legislation within the countries in which we operate; changes in tax laws, catastrophic events, such as earthquakes and hurricanes; the possible impact of international conflicts and other developments including terrorist acts; and other risks and factors detailed from time to time in our documents filed with the securities regulators in Canada and the United States.
We caution that the foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on our forward-looking statements, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. Except as required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether written or oral, that may be as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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