Disclosure in board of directors report explanatory To the Members, Your Directors take pleasure in presenting their Nineteenth Annual Report on the business and operations of your Company, together with the audited Statement of Accounts, for the year ended March 31, 2014. At the outset, your Directors wish to reiterate your Company’s commitment to the highest standards of corporate governance in order to enhance the trust of all its stakeholders. Strong and robust corporate governance practices have facilitated your Company in standing up to the continued scrutiny of domestic & international investors and that of the Regulatory authorities. Your Company endeavors to remain the leading player in the Asset Management business in India and enhance its global footprint as well. The standalone and consolidated financial statements of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2014, have been prepared under the historical cost convention, in accordance with the generally accepted accounting principles in India and the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956. The financial highlights (on a consolidated and standalone basis) of the Company for the year ended March 31, 2014 are as follows: | Consolidated | Consolidated | Standalone | Standalone | Description | Year ended March 31, 2014 | Year ended March 31, 2013 | Year ended March 31, 2014 | Year ended March 31, 2013 | Gross Income | 774,91,60,540 | 734,60,90,153 | 7,801,760,231 | 7,126,740,652 | Profit before exceptional item and tax | 352,14,11,014 | 289,58,91,681 | 3,893,717,787 | 3,136,839,140 | Exceptional Items | - | - | 57,565,191 | 556,411,399 | Profit before tax | 352,14,11,014 | 289,58,91,681 | 3,836,152,596 | 2,580,427,741 | Provision for taxation | 79,93,73,014 | 60,31,71,553 | -797,910,196 | -602,181,156 | Provision for Deferred Tax Asset/ (Liability) | 11,81,486 | (28,64,117) | 1,181,487 | -2,864,663 | Profit After Tax before share of minority shareholders | 272,32,19,484 | 228,98,56,011 | 3,039,423,887 | 1,975,381,922 | Share of Minority Shareholders | 481,989 | 379,418 | - | - | Net Profit | 272,27,37,495 | 2,289,476,593 | 3,039,423,887 | 1,975,381,922 | Balance carried to Balance Sheet | 6,722,670,943 | 6,325,549,435 | 6,954,981,841 | 6,241,173,943 | Basic EPS ofRs.10 each | 246.6 | 206.26 | 275.28 | 177.93 | Diluted EPS of Rs.10 each | 245.47 | 205.17 | 274.03 | 177 |
In accordance with Circular No. 2/2011 dated 8th February, 2011, issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, your Board of Directors has resolved on April 28, 2014, to accord their consent for not attaching to the Company’s annual accounts, the Balance sheets of its subsidiary companies. The Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company, alongwith that of its subsidiaries, for the year ended March 31, 2014 (duly audited by their respective statutory auditors) are forming part of this Annual Report. The annual accounts of all the subsidiary companies and the related detailed information will be made available to the Shareholders of the Company seeking such information at any point of time. The annual accounts of all the subsidiary companies will also be kept at the Corporate Office of the Company, for inspection by the Shareholders. The Company shall furnish a hard copy of details of accounts of subsidiaries to any Shareholder on demand. For the financial year 2013-2014, your Directors recommend the declaration and payment of dividend of Rs. 150/- (Rupees One Hundred and Fifty only) per equity share of Rs.10/- each, thereby entailing the total payout of Rs. 2,021,673,600/- (including dividend distribution tax and other applicable taxes/surcharges). Amount to be carried to Reserves In view of thedeclarationandpayment of dividend to the equity shareholders of the Company and in accordance with the provisions of the Companies (Transfer of Profits to Reserves) Rules, 1975, an amount of i.e. Rs. 303,942,389/- is to be transferred to the General Reserves of the Company. Asset Management: In terms of the authorization from SEBI, your Company acts as the asset manager to Reliance Mutual Fund (‘RMF’), which is the third largest Mutual Fund in India, in terms of the Quarterly Average Assets Under Management (‘QAAUM’) as on March 31, 2014. The QAAUM of RMF as on March 31, 2014 was approx. Rs.103,542 Crores comprising of Rs 24,587 Crores under Equity, Rs. 52,021 Crores under Debt, Rs. 24,703 Crores under Liquid asset classes and Rs 2,230 Crores under Gold. The QAAUM of RMF as on March 31, 2013 was approx. Rs. 94,580 Crores comprising of Rs 27,186 Crores under Equity, Rs. 47,029 Crores under Debt, Rs. 17,440 Crores under Liquid asset classes and Rs. 2,926 Crores under Gold. While the overall QAAUM of RMF has shown positive growth of around 9.48% during the financial year 2013-14, the QAAUM under the debt asset class has grown by approx. 10.61%. During the year under review, the Indian Mutual Fund Industry witnessed an overall positive growth of approx 10.76% in terms of QAAUM, from an amount of approx. Rs. 816,657 Crores on March 31, 2013 to an amount of approx. Rs.904,549 Crores on March 31, 2014. (Source: AMFI). New Schemes Launched: During the year under review, RMF launched the following new schemes: · Reliance Half Yearly Interval Fund· Reliance Fixed Horizon Fund XXIV· Reliance Fixed Horizon Fund XXV· Reliance Fixed Horizon Fund XXVI· Reliance Dual Advantage Fixed Tenure Fund IV· Reliance Dual Advantage Fixed Tenure Fund V· R*Shares Nifty ETF· Reliance Close Ended Equity Fund· Reliance Interval Fund - II As on March 31, 2014, RMF has a well rounded portfolio of 55 schemes under various categories such as Equity, Debt, Liquid, Gold, Exchange Traded Fund, Fixed Maturity Plans and Interval Funds. Portfolio Management: Your Company has been rendering Portfolio Management Services (‘PMS’) since August 2004. It currently offers discretionary and advisory portfolio management services to various categories of clients. The PMS business continued its positive performance through challenging times faced during the year. The Company emerged as one of the very few portfolio management businesses, which attracted new assets. As at the year end, the total AUM of the Portfolio Management business of the Company (including discretionary and advisory services and also including EPFO portfolio) stood at Rs.85,065 Crores as against Rs. 72,231 Crores for the lastfinancial year. The PMS business received a sum of Rs.20 Crores as fee income for the year end March 31, 2014.During the year, the PMS division introduced several high yield debt offerings under its ‘All Season Debt’ portfolio, the key highlight of the year is the successful launch of Reliance Yield Maximizer portfolio which collected more than Rs 500 Crs during this period. Going forward, the PMS division of our Company will endeavor to identify suitable opportunities for launching equity / fixed income portfolios and rendering investment advisory services. Our focus on providing customized offerings to high net-worth individuals & corporates will continue via both PMS and AIF platform in Financial Year 2015. Employees Provident Fund Management (EPFO) Mandate: Your Company was one of the four fund houses which were once again granted the mandate to manage the funds on behalf of Employees Provident Fund Organisation (‘EPFO’). The Company started managing the EPFO portfolio under this fresh mandate from 1st November, 2011 amounting to Rs.53,623 Crores. The EPFO portfolio as on 31st March, 2014, stood at Rs. 83,558 Crores. National Pension System: The wholly owned subsidiary of the Company in India i.e. Reliance Capital Pension Fund Limited (‘RCPFL’) was appointed as one of the Pension Fund Managers by the New Pension System Trust, under the National Pension System (‘NPS’) in 2009. In terms of the revised PFRDA guidelines 2012 on “registration of Pension Funds for Private sector”, the Company also obtained certificate of registration to act as “Pension Fund manager for Private Sector” on 23rd January 2013 and the Certificate of registration is valid for one year from the date of issue of the certificate. The Pension Fund needs to apply for the renewal annually and PFRDA shall notify the continuity to act as Pension Fund based on the review. NPS industry witnessed a rapid growth during the current year, both in terms of subscriber base as well as in respect of the assets under management. The subscribers under NPS schemes, as of 31st March 2014, were in excess of 58.59 Lakhs (as of December 2013) as compared to 44.94 Lakhs during the previous year. Further, the subscribers under Private sector ofNPSschemes,as of 31st March 2013, were in excess of 3.41 Lakhs as compared to around 69,000 as of previous year. The overall assets managed by the NPS industry, as of 31st March 2014, were Rs. 48,104.57 Crores as compared to around Rs.29,836.59 Crores as at the end of the last year. Further, the assets under management related to Private sector (other than NPS Lite) grew from Rs. 582.13 Crores last year to Rs. 1081.80 Crores as of 31st March 2014. The assets under management of RCPFL during the current fiscal year almost doubled to Rs. 43.58 Crores as compared to Rs. 22.52 Crores in the last year. During the year under review, your Company has sold 15% stake [consisting of 37,50,000 equity shares] of RCPFL to Reliance Gilts Limited on December 26, 2013. ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT BUSINESS An area of great interest to your company is the Alternate Asset space. The term Alternate Assets, is generally used to describe all assets other than the conventional listed equity and investment grade debt. Hence this includes non conventional / non benchmarked strategies in equities, non investment grade debt / high yield debt, assets like real estate, commodities, distress debt, etc.Globally, Alternate Assets has been the fastest growing space in the investment management industry, especially since 2008. Importantly these assets are more profitable than conventional assets. In India too this space has been growing very rapidly. Your Directors believe that this space offers immense opportunities and your company is actively working to capture opportunities in this space. Towards this end, your Company is working towards launching an AIF offering in the Real Estate space. It is also intended to follow this up with other offerings/ launches. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Global economic environmentThe global economy continued to drag on the path of growth recovery helped by monetary policy by the major central bankers. Majority of the central bankers’ pumped significant amount of liquidity to support the global economy. There are signs of pickup in global growth led by improvement in housing and labor market of US economy. Going forward we expect FY15 to be a strong year in terms of economy and market participation based on the forward looking financial reforms and improvements in the key pressure points like CAD and Inflation. Opportunities Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have invested over Rs. 51,600 Cr (Source SEBI Website, US$ 8.62 Bn @ 59.93) across Indian equity and debt markets in FY 14. In this year, FII Debt limits were enhanced further from USD 5 Bn to USD 10 Bn within the Government Debt category. Overall, the FII Debt limit stands at USD 51 Bn for Corporate Debt and USD 30 Bn for Government Debt. The enhanced limit will provide opportunities for foreign investors to invest in Indian Government securities.Your Company continues to increase its business in Japan through Nissay Asset Management, subsidiary of Nippon Life by launching joint products. In this regard, products in Equity and Debt categories have been launched.Your Company has also received SEBI’s approval to set up a UCITS investment management company for which the process has already begun. Also, we continue to tap institutional investors from US, Middle-East and Asia.Singapore:Your Singapore subsidiary, Reliance Asset Management (Singapore) Pte Ltd. (‘RAMS’), which established its business in Singapore in the year 2006 has closed the financial year with USD 766 mn assets undermanagement.Equity Capability During the year under review, RAMS will continue to act as the offshore investment manager but has realigned its equity strategies to be advised by RCAM from India, to take advantage of the Regulations 24 of SEBI (Mutual Fund) Regulations 1996. Fixed Income Capability During the year under review, RAMS continues to focus on the Fixed Income space. The Fixed Income achievements can be summarized as under:· Successful investments of over USD 600 mn in Fixed Deposits Funds (FD).· |