Investment Policy & Goals

Investment Policy
Investment Goals
Our investment goal is to pursue high potential projects and ideas or themes with a view to maximizing returns. These specific investment objectives are as follows:

• Opportunistic:  Opportunistic investments in high growth potential projects and business propositions that are presented in a high growth market or in a distressed state where assets have been significantly discounted.
• High Growth:  Primary objective is to maximize returns for shareholders, taking advantage of increasing product prices, scarcity of product or technology or barriers to entry that can be used to our market advantage.
• Sectors: Invest thematically in diverse sectors including mining, chemicals, energy technology and food and beverages.

Investment Objectives
Our measurable investment objectives are as follows:

• Achieve a minimum Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) of 30% per annum within 24 months of investing (or the time period allocated to payback), and,
• Achieve a positive NPV using a discount rate of 12% that provides for an Internal Rate of Return that exceeds 30% after the investment equity has been earned after tax.

Investment Strategy

• After defining attractive market segments in our thematic sectors, use our fair value model to allow investment opportunities to be evaluated for Company fit to investment objectives and thematic investment policy.
• Value assets using appropriate investment methodology and test for risk and sustainability of cashflows, and benchmark these metrics accordingly.
• Utilize capital in distressed assets and invest where a major market share can be acquired quickly.