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| We believe their standalone business, coupled with the opportunities from our partnership, will enable Jana to enhance their already strong performance and help grow their business to its optimal scale, thus increasing the overall value of Jana's business |
| So we're very excited about the investment, we're very excited about what the team has done to date, and we think there's big upside going forward |
| We believe that we can expand Alight's profitability and recurring revenue model while building a more valuable business |
| To conclude, we are very optimistic with what the future holds for Cannae and our shareholders as we find new high return investments, continue with our share buybacks, and gradually rebalance our portfolio |
| At AFC Bournemouth, our management team has done a terrific job transforming Bournemouth both on and off the field |
| And we believe it will be a benefit to both businesses through theirs in terms of driving returns and increasing AUM and to ours in terms of sourcing proprietary acquisitions of operating businesses |
| We believe a partnership with Jana creates significant upside for Cannae as a result of one, sourcing of new control opportunities for Cannae |
| Over time, we believe by leveraging the Jana relationship, Cannae's ability to source proprietary acquisition opportunities and make new investments, and with the improving performance of Cannae's underlying portfolio, the stock price to NAV gap will close, resulting in significant returns to our shareholders |
| We are excited to partner with the Gordon family and believe that Hibernian will be a strong contributor to our multi-club ownership strategy |
| We are very excited with the opportunities ahead and confident in our strategy as we transform our portfolio, which we believe will deliver value to our shareholders |
| In terms of the success that we've had on both the business side and the football side, we believe that going forward we'll be able to continue those successes |
| Jana's standalone business is well positioned for success given its industry-leading returns and long track record of success |
| Additionally, the business side of Bournemouth has performed very strong, with hospitality up approximately 50% year-over-year, ticketing up 13% year-over-year, and sponsorship up 40% year-over-year |
| Cannae's liquidity position is strong with $149 million of corporate cash and short-term investments net of the cash invested in the Jana transaction |
| Moving on to our listed companies, DNB's constant currency growth of 5.1% from the quarter is an acceleration from the 4.8% in the third quarter and 3.2% in the second and first quarters |
| CSI has outperformed all expectations and brought in a new large investor in December, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion, a 31% increase from the take private valuation |
| If you think of what Cannae is and the capital that it has, and how we can most effectively leverage our permanent capital, we believe looking at private businesses, it will be better than the public, and we like the public businesses that we have |
| The second reason why we're excited about this investment is, we believe there will be an increase in the value of the Jana platform |
| While Alight's top line revenue growth was 1.9%, the company posted 12% growth in adjusted EBITDA and hit $2.2 billion in BPaaS total contract value bookings since 2021, $700 million over the three-year target of $1.5 billion that they had set |
| Cross-equity ownership of the transaction aligns both parties in the other's success |
| I think it's a -- I think it works better |
| I'm thrilled to partner with Barry Rosenstein, Scott Ostfeld, and the Jana team who have built an incredible track record as a public company investor |
| We believe finding private investments like these where we can acquire operating companies, partner with management teams, and actively engage to help grow their businesses, will drive value for our shareholders |
| But we're very confident that we can raise those funds really expeditiously and easily |
| Taken together, I believe this will have the dual effect of driving our net asset value higher while closing our share price to NAV discount |
| Continuing to find attractive investments is critical to our long-term success, and I'm excited with our announcement today of our strategic investment in partnership with Jana Partners, where we acquired a minority stake for approximately 1.58 million Cannae common shares and $18 million in cash |
| This relationship will be beneficial to both Cannae through the sourcing of these opportunities as well as Jana by giving them a different tool to execute their strategy, that is, leveraging Cannae as a catalyst to a target company, and thus driving returns for both entities |
| Currently, the team is ranked in 13th place, which is up from last year's 15th place, and we believe we can move higher than that |
| As a top five holder of Cannae, I am very aligned with our shareholders in creating value and seeing our share price not only appreciate towards the fair value of our portfolio, but also growing that value |
| And the Scottish Premier League is a terrific football league |
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| And on Ryan's last point there, touching on the multi-club strategy with the new minority stake in Hibernian, can you maybe highlight the multi-club strategy, what it is, and why it makes sense, why it can be successful? William Foley Well, the Premier League is a difficult league to compete in |
| Finally, starting in the third quarter of this year, Trasimene's fees will be reduced by approximately 16% going forward as a result of Rick Massey moving into the Vice Chairman role |
| The risks and uncertainties, which forward-looking statements are subject to include, but are not limited to, the risks and other factors detailed in our quarterly shareholder letter, which was released this afternoon and in our other filings with the SEC |
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