Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) announced on 18 July 2022, a retail entitlement offer of 1 new share for every 15 existing shares held, with an issue price of $18.90 and a record date of 21 July 2022.
Shareholders have 3 options: A) Sell their rights on market, B) Take up the retail entitlement offer, and C) allow the rights to be sold in the retail bookbuild process or a combination of the above.
ANZ investors who would like to take up the ANZ entitlement offer can click on this link: https://retailentitlementoffer.anz.com/offer/ . The offer closes at 5pm on 15 August to take up this option.
Trading of the new shares is to commence on 25 August 2022.
Below are the instructions for updating your portfolio to account for these transactions:
Selling your Rights on Market
- Click on the 'Portfolio’ tab and then click on the appropriate portfolio, under ‘My Portfolio(s)’, which includes the ANZ shares.
- Click on the New Buy button
- In the ‘New Buy’ window, the Security Code is 'ANZR', Trade Date is 26/07/2022, Number of Shares (e.g. If you held 1,500 shares before the entitlement offer, then the new amount would be 1500 / 15 = 100), Price ($) of '0.00' and Fees ($) of ‘0.00’. If applicable, select the relevant Source funds from Cash Account option and At Settlement Date as '25/07/2022'. Include a brief summary in “Notes” Received 1 for 15 ANZ shares for retail entitlement offer of July 2022’.
- Click the blue ‘Save' button at the bottom of the window and this should have created the new ANZR securities.
To sell your ANZR
- Click on the Code ‘ANZR’ under ‘Securities Held’, which will take you through to the ANZR screen.
- Under the ‘Trades and Adjustments’ sections click on the ‘New Sell’ button (second from the left and is a red button). This will open a smaller pop-up window.
- In the ‘New Sale’ window, Security Code 'ANZR' will already be selected. Enter the Trade Date that you sold the securities, No. of Shares, Price ($) and Fees ($). If applicable, select the relevant Deposit funds into Cash Account option and the At Settlement Date.
- Click the blue ‘Save' button at the bottom of the window, and ANZR securities should now be sold in your portfolio. This will close the pop-up window.
Taking-up the entitlement offer:
- Click on the 'Portfolio’ tab and then click on the appropriate portfolio, under ‘My Portfolio(s)’, which includes the ANZ shares.
- Under the ‘Securities Held’ section, please click on the “New Buy” button. In the new window, please type in the following: Code: ANZ, Date: 24 August 2022, Number of shares: Is the number of shares received from the retail entitlement offer, Price $18.90 and Fees: Nil
Notes: Received XX shares in the retail entitlement offer of July 2022. (This is optional)
- The click on the ‘Save’ button found in the bottom right-hand corner
If you Elect to do Nothing
Your retail entitlement offer will be sold through the retail shortfall bookbuild, which will occur on 18 August 2022. If you choose this option, there is no guarantee that you will receive any value for your retail entitlement offer sold through the retail shortfall bookbuild. It is expected any retail premium will be paid to you on or about 9 September 2022.
If you receive a premium, please enter this into your portfolio as per instructions for ‘Selling your rights on Market’
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