SPP HarvesterTM is the only automated service which allows you to harvest the discount for Share Purchase Plans undertaken by Australia’s largest 300 listed, liquid, operating companies on ASX (the SPP300).
When an investor account is opened, SPP HarvesterTM automatically buys 1 share in each company in the SPP300. Each share is beneficially registered in your name. Your shares are held by a trusted, globally recognised, custodian, BNP Paribas.
Once you have applied, you will not need to do anything:
When an SPP300 company offers shares via an SPP, SPP HarvesterTM analyses whether the SPP is in-the-money at the time of application. An equal amount for each upcoming SPP is provisioned against your cash account, and applications are automatically made for each SPP on your behalf.
If the SPP is oversubscribed, the company may scale-back applications. Alternatively, the company may upsize the SPP so that all applicants receive 100% of their application.
When your new shares are allocated and commence trading, SPP HarvesterTM automatically sells the new securities, using algorithms to minimise price impact and provide best execution. The net sale proceeds are then returned to your cash account, ready for the next SPP.
This allows you to efficiently harvest any discount and efficiently recycle capital through SPPs.
SPP HarvesterTM allows you to participate in SPPs undertaken by Australia’s largest ASX listed, liquid companies with a minimum capital outlay and relatively low establishment costs.
To create a 1-share portfolio in 300 entities, a “do-it-yourself" investor would need to buy the minimum market parcel of $500 in every listed entity (ie. $150,000 of buy orders). Selling down that $150,000 portfolio to one share in each company would require another 300 sell orders worth ~$146,500. "Do-it-yourself" investors would be charged brokerage twice: on both the buy order and the sell order.
Using an internet broker with minimum brokerage of $15 per trade, a “do-it-yourself" investor would incur transaction fees of ~ $9,000 to establish a 1-share position in 300 listed companies. By comparison, SPP HarvesterTM costs $3,000 (ex GST) to establish a 1-share position in each company in the SPP300.
SPP HarvesterTM removes the hassle of establishing the portfolio and monitoring whether an SPP is in-the-money, determining how much to apply for, and selling down the new shares, to recycle capital into the next SPP.
SPP HarvesterTM only sells the new shares issued under each SPP. By retaining one share in the company, post-SPP sell-downs, this means SPP HarvesterTM will continue to automatically apply for any SPPs conducted by that company in future years.
SPP HarvesterTM enables you to generate on-demand, fully customisable reports for both time-weighted performance and money-weighted performance. Performance reports exclude the application fee.
SPP HarvesterTM investors can also download an annual statement to make tax-time easy.
Share purchase plans are a commonly used method of capital raising. Under an SPP, each shareholder is typically offered the opportunity to apply for up to $30,000 in new securities. Typically:
Typically, SPPs are open for approximately three weeks. SPP HarvesterTM applies for SPPs several days prior to each SPP closing date.
The chart shows the average discount to the last traded price on the closing date of SPPs, for those SPPs that met the ‘in-the-money’ qualifying criterion used by SPP HarvesterTM in the years since the Global Financial Crisis.
On the opening date of this offer, the purchase prices of 1-share in each company in the SPP300 collectively added up to ~$3,700. The exact amount will depend on the trading prices at the time of purchase. Investors must pay the purchase price to acquire 1-share in each company in the SPP300 in addition to the Establishment Fees set out below.
Each investor in this tranche is deemed to be an Early Adopter and will receive concessions to allow for a change of heart, and to guarantee that profits from SPPs in the first 12 months will exceed the Application Fee.
If an Early Adopter terminates their participation in SPP Harvester (and has not made a withdrawal that reduces the cash balance below $4,999):
then the Manager will:
The Manager will provide a separate invoice for the Application Fee. Investors should seek their own taxation advice whether the $3,000 Application Fee is tax deductible in the financial year of application.
The trade report will itemise the $300 brokerage against each purchased share to assist investors to calculate the CGT cost base of each share in the SPP300 portfolio.
Prospective investors should be aware that investing in securities and the SPP HarvesterTM strategy involves various risks. There are general risks associated with owning securities in publicly listed entities. The price of securities can go down as well as up due to factors outside the control of the Manager. These factors include Australian and worldwide economic and political stability, natural or man-made disasters, performance of global stock markets, pandemics, interest rates, foreign exchange, taxation, labour relations, environments internationally and other matters outside of the control of the Manager.
SPP HarvesterTM only acquires securities in an SPP that are in-the-money when measured against the opening price on the date that SPP HarvesterTM applies for an SPP on your behalf.
The main risk that investors face is that the market price falls between the SPP HarvesterTM Acceptance Date and the date that your SPP securities are sold. If the price, less any transaction costs, realised on the sale of the SPP securities is less than the SPP Price, the investor will realise a loss.
Listed entities in the SPP300 may experience a decline in liquidity which means that the SPP securities cannot be sold without having a negative impact on the market price of the securities.
Listed entities may choose not to undertake SPPs when they raise capital. SPP HarvesterTM carries an annual fee, and if listed entities in the SPP300 do not undertake SPPs or entities in the SPP300 undertake substantially fewer SPPs than the average number of SPPs over the last 12 years, investors may not recover their annual costs or the establishment costs.
SPP HarvesterTM is a new offering without operating or performance history and no track record which can be used by investors to make any assessment about the offering. Investors should be aware, that the number, frequency, and pricing of past SPPs may not be a reliable indicator of the number, frequency, and pricing of SPPs that will be accessed via SPP HarvesterTM. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
Share Purchase Plans in the SPP300 may be oversubscribed and listed entities may choose scale-back methods that are disadvantageous to SPP HarvesterTM investors, reducing the number of securities issued to investors.
Regulations may be changed in a way that reduces or eliminates the potential returns for investors in the SPP HarvesterTM service. In the event of a material adverse regulatory change affecting the Manager or Investors, the Manager has a right to terminate SPP HarvesterTM. Termination will result in transaction costs associated with disposal of the SPP300 and this may result in investors not recovering their investment.
Please see detailed information about SPP HarvesterTM in the booklet.
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Your SPP HarvesterTM application process will be simpler and processed more quickly if you register in your individual name, rather than investing via an SMSF, trust or company (as these will require you to send certified copies of constituent documents by mail).
Applications by individuals are fully-electronic.