Brompton Group has announced:
Brompton Funds Limited (the “Manager”) is pleased to announce that Global Dividend Growth Split Corp. (the “Company”) has filed a preliminary prospectus dated April 24, 2018 in respect of an initial public offering of preferred shares and class A shares (the “Preliminary Prospectus”).
The Company will invest in a diversified portfolio (the “Portfolio”) of equity securities of large capitalization global dividend growth companies selected by the Manager. In order to qualify for inclusion in the Portfolio, at the time of investment and at the time of each periodic reconstitution and/or rebalancing of the Portfolio, each global dividend growth company included in the Portfolio must (i) have a market capitalization of at least US$10 billion; and (ii) have a history of dividend growth or, in the Manager’s view, have high potential for future dividend growth.
The Manager expects that at least 20 global dividend growth companies will comprise the Portfolio. The indicative portfolio includes: Airbus SE, Apple Inc., AstraZeneca plc, BCE Inc., Carnival Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Deutsche Post AG, Enbridge Inc., HSBC Holdings plc, Intel Corporation, IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Manulife Financial Corporation, Novartis AG, Pfizer Inc., Proctor & Gamble Co., Sanofi SA, Siemens AG, Sun Life Financial Inc., TELUS Corporation, Texas Instruments Inc., Toronto-Dominion Bank, UBS Group AG, and Vinci SA.
The class A shares will be offered at a price of $12.00 per share. The investment objectives for the class A shares are to provide holders with regular monthly non-cumulative cash distributions and the opportunity for capital appreciation through exposure to the Portfolio. The monthly cash distribution is targeted to be $0.10 per class A share representing a yield on the issue price of the class A shares of 10.0% per annum.
The preferred shares will be offered at a price of $10.00 per share. The investment objectives for the preferred shares are to provide holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions and to return the original issue price of $10.00 to holders on June 30, 2021, subject to extension for successive terms of up to five years as determined by the board of directors of the Company. The quarterly cash distribution will be $0.1250 per preferred share ($0.50 per annum, or 5.0% per annum on the issue price of $10.00 per preferred share), until June 30, 2021. The preferred shares have been provisionally rated Pfd-3 (high) by DBRS Limited.
Prospective purchasers investing in the Company will have the option of paying for shares in cash or by an exchange of freely-tradable listed securities of any eligible issuers listed in the Preliminary Prospectus (the “Exchange Option”). Prospective purchasers who utilize the Exchange Option are required to deposit their securities of exchange eligible issuers by no later than 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on May 24, 2018 through CDS. Please contact your investment advisor or refer to the Preliminary Prospectus for detailed information on how to participate in the offering by way of either cash purchase or the exchange option.
Brompton Funds Limited will act as the manager and portfolio manager of the Company. The Manager currently manages five split share corporations with combined assets of over $1.3 billion.
The syndicate of agents for the offering is being led by RBC Capital Markets, CIBC Capital Markets, National Bank Financial Inc. and Scotiabank and includes BMO Capital Markets, TD Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., GMP Securities L.P., Raymond James Ltd., Echelon Wealth Partners., Industrial Alliance Securities Inc., Desjardins Securities Inc., and Mackie Research Capital Corporation.
This follows yesterday’s announcement of a provisional Pfd-3(high) rating from DBRS.