Cadence Capital Limited · ASX:CDM
Cadence Capital — Shareholder Meeting (October 2025)
31 slides from Cadence Capital's shareholder meeting presentation, Oct 28, 2025
Slide 1: Cadence Capital & Cadence Opportunities Fund AGM and Investor Briefing
Cadence Capital Limited & Cadence Opportunities Fund Limited AGM and Investor Briefing 28 October 2025
Slide 2: CDM 2025 Year-End Results
CDM 2025 Year-End Results ▪ Fund up 3.4% with profit after tax of $6.3m. ▪ The fund performed strongly in the second half of the financial year being up 7.3% reversing some of the first half underperformance. ▪ The All Ords. Accum. Index performance in 2025 was driven by a small number of large capi
Slide 3: CDM Performance
CDM Performance ▪ Fund up 6.2% in September outperforming ▪ The company holds around 38 positions. index by 6.7%. ▪ Approx. 66% of the fund’s exposure is in ▪ For past 12 months to September the Fund is Companies with a > than $1 Billion market up 14% outperforming index by 3.5% capitalisation. ▪ Fu
Slide 4: CDM Top 20 Holdings (30 Sept 2025)
CDM Top 20 Holdings (30 Sept 2025) ▪ 63% of the fund’s exposure is in Basic Materials ▪ 51% of the fund’s exposure is in Precious Metals ▪ 15% of the fund’s exposure is in Turnaround Situations 4
Slide 5: CDM Premium/Discount
CDM Premium/ Discount GFC COVID Options included in calculations • Post Div Ex-Date discount at 21% 5
Slide 6: CDO 2025 Year-End Results
CDO 2025 Year-End Results ▪ Fund up 7.9%, with profit after tax of $1.5m ▪ The fund performed strongly in the second half of the financial year being up 9.1% reversing some of the first half underperformance. ▪ 7.0 cents fully franked final dividend. ▪ This equated to 7.8% yield (11.1% grossed up fo
Slide 7: CDO Performance
CDO Performance ▪ Fund up 6.8% in September outperforming index by 7.3%. ▪ The company holds around 41 ▪ For past 12 months to September the Fund is up positions. 20.8% outperforming index by 10.3% ▪ Currently, around 87% of the portfolio ▪ Fund continues to performing well in October can be liquida
Slide 8: CDO Top 20 Holdings (30 Sept 2025)
CDO Top 20 Holdings (30th Sept 2025) ▪ 59% of the fund’s gross exposure is in Basic Materials ▪ 48% of the fund’s gross exposure is in Precious Metals ▪ 9% of the fund’s gross exposure is in Turnaround Situations ▪ 38% of the fund’s gross exposure is in Trades 8
Slide 9: CDO Premium/Discount
CDO Premium/ Discount • Post Div Ex-date discount at 14% 9
Slide 10: High PE with low Growth Rates
High PE with low Growth Rates PE EPS Ratio Growth ▪ Lots of stocks are not meeting our fundamentals - PE expansion on limited to no earnings growth, unfavourable peg ratios and most often unfavourable cashflow multiples ▪ Lots of high PE companies with single digit growth rates. 10
Slide 11: Long term interest rates
Long term interest rates We first showed this chart at the 2022 AGM. US interest rates rose very quickly from 0.5% in March 2022 to 5.5% in July 2023. Rates have since been cut to 4.25% but it is too early to make a call that interest rates are now trending down. The trend has turned 11
Slide 12: Short term interest rates
Short term interest rates ▪ The Reserve Bank has reduced official interest rates in Australia from 4.35% to 3.6% over the past year. The 10-year bond rate has also fallen, but by a smaller amount, and is now above the cash rate. There is speculation the RBA will reduce rates again this year, but the
Slide 13: Gold vs Gold stocks
Gold vs Gold stocks Gold company share prices AUD$ have recently Gold outperformed Price the gold price, but not by much. 13
Slide 14: Gold vs US Treasuries
Gold vs US Treasuries First time since 1996 that foreign central banks are holding a greater share of their reserves in gold than they are in US treasuries “ If 1% of the privately owned U.S. Treasury market were to flow into gold, the price would rise to nearly $5,000 per ounce.” Goldman Sachs (6/9
Slide 15: Other recent commentary on Gold
Other recent commentary on Gold At a recent conference in New York, Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of hedge fund Citadel discussed with Bloomberg: “We’re seeing substantial asset inflation away from the dollar as people are looking for ways to effectively de-dollarize, or de-risk their portfolios vis-
Slide 16: Equinox Gold (EQX CN) – Long (Core)
Equinox Gold (EQX CN) – Long (Core) Stock Profile EQX CN Fundamental Analysis ▪ Equinox is a multi-asset gold producer with its two foundational assets, Greenstone and Valentine, located in Long Position (FY26e) the Tier 1 mining jurisdiction of Canada. ▪ Greenstone and Valentine are both ramping up
Slide 17: Equinox Gold (EQX CN)
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Slide 18: New Gold Inc. (NGD US) – Long (Core)
New Gold Inc. (NGD US) – Long (Core) Fundamental Analysis Stock Profile NGD US ▪ New Gold operates two producing gold mines in Canada. ▪ Operational challenges, under the former management team, led to forced asset sales and balance sheet troubles. Long Position (FY26e) ▪ NGD now has a new team and
Slide 19: New Gold Inc. (NGD US)
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Slide 20: Pantoro Ltd. (PNR) – Long (Core)
Pantoro Ltd. (PNR) – Long (Core) Fundamental Analysis Stock Profile PNR ▪ Pantoro is an Australian gold producer based in WA. ▪ FY26 production guidance is 100 – 110koz (+28% vs FY25) and the company has organic growth options to target +200kozpa over the Long Position (FY26e) medium term. EPS Growt
Slide 21: Pantoro Ltd. (PNR)
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Slide 22: Other gold positions
Other gold positions Robex Resources (RBX CN and RXR) - Trade Robex is a gold developer – transitioning into production - in Guinea. The team is led by Matt Wilcox, who successfully executed processing plants for West African Resources and Tietto. A proposed merger with Predictive Discovery (PDI) wi
Slide 23: Other Resource Positions
Other Resource Positions The funds have also been investing in other resources that meet our fundamental and/or technical criteria: ▪ Copper – Capstone Copper (CS CN) Capstone is a multi-asset producer of copper across the Americas. The copper price has benefitted from several supply-side shocks thr
Slide 24: Capstone Copper (CS CN) – Long (Core)
Capstone Copper (CS CN) – Long (Core) Stock Profile CS CN Fundamental Analysis ▪ Capstone is a multi asset copper producer in the Americas. ▪ Over the past two years the company has been ramping up Long Position (FY26e) its Mantoverde copper mine, which contributes to group production increasing by
Slide 25: Capstone Copper (CS CN)
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Slide 26: Turnaround Situations
Turnaround Situations Clarity Pharmaceuticals (CU6) - Trade Clarity is developing a copper isotope that detects the recurrence of prostate cancer. The company recently released results from its clinical trial at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. The results showed that CU6 detects more prostate cancer l
Slide 27: Some CDO Positions
Some CDO Positions Motorcycle Holdings (MTO) – Long MTO is the leading motorcycle retailer in Australia with a new management team in place. MTO recently acquired Peter Stevens and Harley-Heaven from administrators. The acquisitions have given MTO a presence in both Perth and Adelaide to complement
Slide 28: Outlook
Outlook ▪ Gold is in an upward trend. There are many factors that are causing this, some being “De-Dollarisation” of the global economy, development of BRICS Pay, gold being viewed as a store of wealth and levels of sovereign and world debt at historic highs. Gold equities remain a core exposure wit
Slide 29: Outlook (Cont'd)
Outlook (Cont’d) ▪ Global markets remain caught between slowing growth, political uncertainty and central bank policy easing. ▪ US President Trump’s tariffs have added further pressure to the global economy, prompting central banks worldwide to respond with interest rate cuts. ▪ Over the past year t
Slide 30: Outlook (Cont'd)
Outlook (Cont’d) ▪ Asset allocation suggestions to move from 60:40 (Equities: Fixed Interest) to 60:20:20 or 60:25:15 (Equities: Fixed Interest: Precious Metals). A move out of fixed interest and sovereign debt into precious metals. ▪ We continue to focus on implementing the Cadence process that has
Slide 31: Disclaimer
Disclaimer The information contained in this report has been prepared with all reasonable care by Cadence Asset Management Pty Ltd and is of a general nature only. It is provided for information purposes only and should not be construed as an offer or solicitation. Nothing contained in this document