Diversified United Investment Limited


Investment Policy

DUI is an investment company founded in 1991 which seeks, through portfolio diversification and professional management, to improve its income from dividends and interest over the longer term within an acceptable level of risk.

The Company has paid an increased dividend every year since listing in 1991.  Dividends paid for each of the full financial years since listing are as follows:
                       Year
 

Cents Per Share
 

                      1992/93 3.0
                      1993/94 3.3
                      1994/95 3.6
                      1995/96 4.5
                      1996/97 5.0
                      1997/98 5.5
                      1998/99 5.75
                      1999/00 6.0
                      2000/01 6.25
                      2001/02 6.5
                      2002/03 7.0
                      2003/04 7.5
                      2004/05 8.5
                      2005/06 9.5
                      2006/07 12.0
                      2007/08 13.0
                      2008/09 13.0
List of Directors

Charles Goode
Charles Goode AC, B.Com (Hons) (Melb), MBA (Columbia), Hon LLD (Melb), Hon LLD (Monash).  Age 69, Appointed Chairman September 1991. Mr Goode is the Chairman of the Boards of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd (director since 1991), Australian United Investment Company Limited (since 1990), The Ian Potter Foundation Ltd (governor since 1987) and Grosvenor Australia Properties Pty Limited (since 2008).

Graeme Moir
Graeme Moir B.Com (Univ. of NZ), ACA (NZ), ACIS.  Age 76, Appointed September 1991. Mr Moir is the principal of the investment management firm Moirs Investment Service Pty Ltd (since 1965), and is a director of Graeme Moir and Associates Pty Ltd (since 1965), and Australian United Investment Company Limited (since 1976).  He is Chairman of the Company's Audit Committee.

Martyn Myer
Martyn Myer AO, B.Eng, MESc (Monash), MSM ( MIT), FIE (Aust). Age 50, Appointed September 1991.  Mr Myer is Chairman of CogState Ltd (since 1999), Vice President of The Myer Foundation (since 2004),  and is a Director of SP AusNet Group (since 2005), the Florey Neurosciences Institutes (since 2007), and The Myer Family Company Pty Ltd (since 2007).

Rupert  Myer
Rupert  Myer AM, B.Com (Hons)(Melb), MA Cantab, Age 50, Appointed November 2002.  Mr Myer is a director of AMCIL Limited (since 2000).  He serves as Chairman of The Myer Family Company Pty Ltd (Group) (since 2004 and a director since 1991) and the National Gallery of Australia (since 2005), and is a director The Myer Foundation (since 1992) and of Myer Pty Ltd (since 2006).

Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess B.Com (Hons)(Melb), MBA (Distinction)(Havard).  Age 49, Appointed September 2008.  Mr Burgess is a  financial consultant with over 26 years experience in corporate finance in London, New York and Melbourne.  In 2008 he retired as Global Co-Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for Deutsche Bank AG.  He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Faculty of Economics & Commerce, The University of Melbourne.  He is a director of a number of private companies.

Corporate Governance Statement

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Constitution

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