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Global Equity Offerings (GEO) Monitor tracks global IPO activity. GEO Monitor™ is the only comprehensive source of homogeneous, detailed research on global IPO's and provides you with eight key deliverables:

  1. Weekly IPO Calendar: identifies the companies that have announced the intention to go public, scheduled date of pricing and the date they expect to begin trading in the public market.
  2. Newsflash service: provides daily up-to-date news flow on all companies in the IPO calendar, as well as identifying any new announcements or withdrawals.
  3. Preliminary IPO research reports with subscription recommendations.
  4. Financial Models, allowing you to flex our assumptions.
  5. All translated materials (if not originally in English language), including the IPO Prospectus.
  6. Access to the analyst.
  7. Calendar and reports available "pull" (on website) or "push" (by email), based on personal alert preferences.
  8. Our performance track record is available on the website.

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GEO Monitor Performance.

The GEO Monitor SUBSCRIBE model portfolio has outperformed the benchmark for all 1, 5, 10 and 30 days investment strategies, for 96 IPOs since Nov'07, as shown below:

Results across 96 IPOs analyzed 1 day 5 days 10 days 1 month
Average return of SUBSCRIBE recommendations 17.0%
(61 IPOs)
14.5%
(61 IPOs)
17.7%
(61 IPOs)
16.2%
(58 IPOs)
Sharpe ratio of SUBSCRIBE recommendations 2.21 1.94 1.53 0.96
Average return of AVOID recommendations (3.9%)
(35 IPOs)
(1.9%)
(34 IPOs)
(0.2%)
(33 IPOs)
(6.9%)
(29 IPOs)
Average return of ALL researched IPOs – Benchmark Universe 9.4%
(96 IPOs)
8.6%
(95 IPOs)
11.4%
(94 IPOs)
8.6%
(87 IPOs)
Sharpe ratio of ALL researched IPOs 1.44 1.27 1.11 0.54
Alpha generated (SUBSCRIBE model portfolio vs. benchmark) 7.6% 5.9% 6.3% 7.6%

Results are equally compelling based on the monthly returns generated since Nov'07:

Monthly Results (26 months) 1 day 5 days 10 days 1 month
Average monthly return of SUBSCRIBE recommendations 57.6% 49.1% 59.9% 55.0%
Annualized Sharpe ratio of SUBSCRIBE recommendations 2.23 2.15 2.23 2.29
Average monthly return of ALL researched IPOs – Benchmark 47.4% 43.0% 56.4% 39.4%
Annualized Sharpe ratio of ALL researched IPOs 1.86 2.03 2.17 2.05
Alpha monthly (SUBSCRIBE model portfolio vs. Benchmark) 10.2% 6.1% 3.5% 15.6%

These returns are based on real recommendations. IIR is a research provider and not a fund, and without actual investment certain assumptions have been made in our performance calculations. We believe these assumptions are reasonable – please look at the attached analysis and methodology. You are also welcome to discuss these results with our performance analyst.

You can download the full performance spreadsheet here.

Click here to see the methodology and disclaimer for this model portfolio.

Weekly Highlight

African Barrick Gold Plc (ABG) produced 716,000 ounces (oz) of gold in FY 2009 and as of 31 December 2009, the company's proven and probable reserves stood at 16.8 mn oz (Moz). With an increase in mining output over the coming years, the company's per unit cost is expected to decline as it accrues benefits from economies of scale. Going forward, we believe gold prices will sustain high levels over the coming 2 years; as countries continue to diversify their forex reserves from US dollar to other assets, with gold being the preferred vehicle for such diversification. However, we expect the increase in gold prices to moderate and correct beyond 2011, after diversification of forex reserves is completed and improving macroeconomic factors diminish its hedging value. Although earnings and margins are expected to contract in an environment of falling gold prices from FY 2012 onwards, we believe the company's current cost structure will enable ABG to register healthy profit margins over our investment horizon. ABG's future growth potential, its post IPO debt free balance sheet and our bullish outlook on gold prices over the medium term support our positive stance on ABG's public offering.