Westwood Holdings Group Inc · NYSE:WHG

Westwood — Investor Presentation (June 2017)

24 slides from Westwood's investor presentation, Jun 30, 2017

  1. Slide 1: Investor Relations Presentation

    Westwood H O L D I N G S G R O U P , I N C © Investing Where It Counts Investor Relations Presentation As of June 30, 2017

  2. Slide 2: Westwood | Firm Overview

    Westwood | Firm Overview Our mission is to exceed client expectations through Institutional exceptional performance and ethical conduct. Mutual Funds Private Wealth Multi-Investment Team Structure Employee Ownership Culture Overview1 U.S. Value Employees and directors own equity, Global and Emerging

  3. Slide 3: Business Growth | Revenue and Assets Under Management

    Business Growth | Revenue and Assets Under Management Westwood Growth in Revenues and Assets Under Management 140 25 120 20 100 Annual Revenue ($ millions) Quarterly AUM ($ billions) 15 80 60 10 40 5 20 - 0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Quarterly AUM Annu

  4. Slide 4: Business Growth | Shareholder Value Creation

    Business Growth | Shareholder Value Creation Current Yield 4.2%* Over $155 million paid out in dividends since 2002 WHG Total Shareholder Return Comparison +725.82% Since Inception 900% 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 Q2 2017 -100% 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2

  5. Slide 5: Business Model Overview | Strategy

    Business Model Overview | Strategy Core Focus: Building and maintaining multiple strong investment engines to deliver top-tier performance across asset classes. Talent management, performance management and alignment of Experienced investment compensation structure with strategic initiatives. teams

  6. Slide 6: Core Growth Drivers | The Way Forward

    Core Growth Drivers | The Way Forward Growth imperatives are concentrated in 5 key areas: 1 Product development efforts focused on high conviction 2 Continue growing long-tenured relationships with industry- investing, low volatility, multi- leading investment management asset, liquid alternatives a

  7. Slide 7: High-Conviction and Outcome-Oriented Solutions

    Westwood | High-Conviction and Outcome-Oriented Solutions Separately Managed Accounts | Mutual Funds | Collective Funds | UCITS U.S. VALUE EQUITY MULTI-ASSET LIQUID REAL ASSETS LargeCap Value Income Opportunity MLP Infrastructure Renewal Concentrated LargeCap Value Worldwide Income Opportunity MLP O

  8. Slide 8: Core Growth Theme | Product Development 2013-2017

    Core Growth Theme | Product Development 2013-2017 High- Multi-Asset Low Liquid Liquid Conviction Volatility Alternatives Real Assets Equity Equity Emerging Worldwide Strategic Global Market Neutral MLP Opportunities Markets SMidCap Income Convertibles Income 1/1/2014 9/1/2013 Opportunity 10/1/2014 1

  9. Slide 9: Core Growth Theme | Product Offerings Across the Risk Spectrum

    Core Growth Theme | Product Offerings Across the Risk Spectrum Global Equity Emerging Market Worldwide Concentrated & Markets & Neutral Income Low Volatility LargeCap Select International SMidCap SmallCap Emerging Income Opportunity Equity Value Equity Equity Plus Value Markets Plus Low High Volatil

  10. Slide 10: Product and Channel Diversification

    Westwood | Product and Channel Diversification STRATEGY BREAKDOWN INSTITUTIONAL CLIENT TYPE 3% 5% 6% MLPs 37% Foundations/Endowments Taft-Hartley/Superannuation U.S. Value Equity 5% 22% UCITS 25% Global/Emerging Equity Public Funds 9% Sovereign Wealth 19% Multi-Asset 19% 21% 29% Other Institutional

  11. Slide 11: Distribution | Multi-Channel Focus

    Distribution | Multi-Channel Focus Institutional AUM Non-U.S. Client Assets $16.0 $14.0 25.0% $12.0 AUM ($ billions) 20.0% % of AUM $10.0 $8.0 15.0% $6.0 10.0% $4.0 5.0% $2.0 $0.0 0.0% Jun-12 Jun-13 Jun-14 Jun-15 Jun-16 Jun-17 Jun-12 Jun-13 Jun-14 Jun-15 Jun-16 Jun-17 Private Wealth AUM Mutual Funds

  12. Slide 12: Financial | Highlights

    Financial | Highlights

  13. Slide 13: Q2 2017 | Highlights

    Q2 2017 | Highlights • Total AUM of $22.6 billion and AUA of $1.0 billion at Assets Under Management June 30, 2017 • AUM in our global and emerging markets strategies reached a record $5.1 billion. Investment Strategies • All U.S. Value strategies provided strong absolute and relative returns, beati

  14. Slide 14: Financial | Trends

    Financial | Trends Fee Revenue1 - Historical Fee Revenue1 – QTD and YTD Annual Asset-based Advisory & Trust Fees ($ millions) $128.1 $121.9 $59.6 $64 $109.0 $88.4 $72.9 $31.6 $30.3 $32.4 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Fee Revenue QTD Fee Revenue YTD Q1 2017 Fee Revenue 2016 Fee Revenue 2017 Fee Revenue Ea

  15. Slide 15: Shareholder Value Creation | Capital Management

    Shareholder Value Creation | Capital Management Annual Dividends Over $145 million of dividends paid out from 2002 to 2016 $25 $20 $ in millions $15 $10 $5 $0 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Quarterly Dividends Special Dividends As of December 31, 2016 15 I

  16. Slide 16: Reconciliation of Net Income to Economic Earnings

    Reconciliation of Net Income to Economic Earnings We are providing a performance measure that we refer to as Economic Earnings. Both our management and Board of Directors review Economic Earnings to evaluate our ongoing performance, allocate resources and determine our dividend policy. We also belie

  17. Slide 17: Appendix

    Appendix

  18. Slide 18: Is It Time to Short Passive?

    Is It Time to Short Passive? Passive vs. Active Over the Past 10 Years Cumulative flows to equity funds ($tn) 2.1 -2.1 Passive Active • $2.1tn inflows to passive equity funds vs. $2.1tn redemptions from active equity funds... • $2.9tn inflows to passive funds (bond + equity) vs. $1.3tn redemptions f

  19. Slide 19: Westwood | Additional Strategic Initiatives

    Westwood | Additional Strategic Initiatives Utilize Technology to Improve Work Flows and Data Management -Upgrade Westwood Trust accounting system to provide consistency across offices and scalability for future offices -Third phase of the data architecture program with the primary focus on data gov

  20. Slide 20: Changes to Executive Compensation Program

    Westwood | Changes to Executive Compensation Program 2016 Executive Compensation Program Changes • Independent third party compensation consultant engaged • New employment agreement for CEO which includes a three-year term, double-trigger change-in-control and no-gross up provisions for taxes • Stoc

  21. Slide 21: Track Record of Shareholder Value Creation

    Westwood | Track Record of Shareholder Value Creation Total Return Since 2002 Westwood Spin-off Diamond Hill Investment Group Inc 6586.25% Virtus Investment Partners Inc 1009.2% Westwood Holdings Group Inc 725.8% Cohen & Steers Inc 437.0% GAMCO Investors Inc 106.6% Federated Investors Inc 65.1% Silv

  22. Slide 22: Forward Looking Statements

    Westwood | Forward Looking Statements Statements in this presentation that are not purely historical facts, including, without limitation, statements about our expected future financial position, preliminary estimates, results of operations or cash flows, as well as other statements including, witho

  23. Slide 23: Mutual Fund Disclaimer

    Mutual Fund Disclaimer To determine if a mutual fund is an appropriate investment for you, carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risk factors, charges, and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Fund’s prospectus, which may be obtained by calling 1.8

  24. Slide 24: Westwood

    Westwood H O L D I N G S G R O U P , I N C © www.westwoodgroup.com 200 Crescent Court Suite 1200 Dallas, Texas 75201 T. 214.756.6900

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