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Annual Report 2011 - Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group

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Treasury activities<br />

The <strong>Group</strong> manages its exposure to financial risk using<br />

a variety of techniques and instruments. The main<br />

objective is to manage exchange and interest rate risks<br />

and to provide a degree of certainty in respect of costs.<br />

The <strong>Group</strong> has fixed or capped interest rates on 44%<br />

of its gross borrowings.<br />

In respect of specific hotel financing, borrowings<br />

are normally taken in the local currency to hedge<br />

partially the investment and the projected income.<br />

At 31st December <strong>2011</strong>, the <strong>Group</strong>’s net assets were<br />

denominated in the following currencies:<br />

Adjusted<br />

Net assets net assets*<br />

US$m % US$m %<br />

Hong Kong dollar 2 – 1,494 55<br />

United States dollar 485 53 525 20<br />

United Kingdom sterling 99 11 164 6<br />

Singapore dollar 44 5 130 5<br />

Euro 99 11 116 4<br />

Swiss franc 90 10 95 4<br />

Thai baht 19 2 76 3<br />

Others 73 8 92 3<br />

911 100 2,692 100<br />

* see supplementary information section on page 22<br />

Included on the <strong>Group</strong>’s consolidated balance<br />

sheet is cash at bank of US$470.1 million<br />

(2010: US$433.5 million) which, after the<br />

deduction of US$1.0 million (2010: US$0.4 million)<br />

of bank overdraft facilities, is shown in the <strong>Group</strong>’s<br />

consolidated cash flow as cash and cash equivalents<br />

of US$469.1 million (2010: US$433.1 million).<br />

<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2011</strong> 23<br />

The <strong>Group</strong>, excluding associates and joint ventures,<br />

had committed borrowing facilities totalling<br />

US$678 million, of which US$582 million was<br />

drawn at 31st December <strong>2011</strong>. The principal amounts<br />

due for repayment are as follows:<br />

Facilities Facilities Unused<br />

committed drawn facilities<br />

US$m US$m US$m<br />

Within one year 4 4 –<br />

Between one and two years 11 9 2<br />

Between two and three years 623 529 94<br />

Between three and four years 34 34 –<br />

Between four and five years 2 2 –<br />

Beyond five years 4 4 –<br />

678 582 96<br />

At 31st December <strong>2011</strong>, the <strong>Group</strong> had US$96 million<br />

of committed, undrawn facilities in addition to its net<br />

cash balances of US$469 million. The average tenor of<br />

the <strong>Group</strong>’s borrowings was 2.8 years (2010: 3.7 years).<br />

Principal risks and uncertainties<br />

A review of the principal risks and uncertainties facing<br />

the <strong>Group</strong> is set out on pages 82 to 83.<br />

Stuart Dickie<br />

Chief Financial Officer<br />

1st March 2012

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