Investor Presentaiton
Funding
Ausgrid has a $12.4 billion debt portfolio, is committed to prudent capital management and seeks to minimise its cost of
funding within defined risk parameters
Summary
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Ausgrid is rated Baa1 by Moody's (implied baa2 on a standalone basis) and BBB (bbb standalone) by S&P (both stable). Shareholders and management
are committed to maintaining this credit profile
Management's key focus to date has been to establish a global capital markets presence in order to achieve diversity of funding sources and tenors, with a
view to managing refinancing risk in a prudent manner
All foreign currency debt is hedged to Australian dollar at the time of issue
Ausgrid interest rate hedging program mimics the AER's approach to setting regulatory cost of debt and cost of equity allowances, thereby aligning
Ausgrid's financing base rates with the equivalent base rates used in the revenue calculation
Debt funding sources (as at 31 July 2019)
11%
8%
10%
Drawn debt
$12.4 bn
19%
52%
■Bank facility
USPP
■AMTN
■ EMTN
US144A
Debt maturity profile 1,2
I 397
2,886
600
1,400
1,400
250
1,200 1,037
995
659
659 643
728
FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 FY26 FY27 FY28 FY29 FY30 FY31 FY32 FY33
USPP AMTN ■EMTN ■US144A ■Bank facility (drawn) Bank facility (undrawn)
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Foreign currency debt is hedged for its term via cross currency swaps to AUD; debt amount shown at relevant hedged exchange rate
Weighted average debt maturity of the drawn debt portfolio as at 31 July 2019 equals 6.0 years
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