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Deutsche Bank
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Cheapest valuation among banks - Deutsche Bank
• Deutsche Bank is the cheapest with a Price to Book ratio
of 0.40 versus peer average of 1.07
P/B ratio of major banks
DB
Barclays
SocGen
BNP
CS
Citi
HSBC
UBS
GS
BankAm
MS
JPM
0
0.45
0.9
1.35
Price to Book (Source: Bloomberg Feb-18)
1.8
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Smallest market cap for a similar balance sheet
size
DB •
Barclays MI
SocGen
UBS
MS
GS
BNP
HSBC
Citi
BofA
JP Morgan
0
Market Cap in USD bn
125
250
375
500
DB
Barclays
SocGen
UBS
MS
GS
BNP
HSBC
Citi
BofA
JP Morgan
Bal Sheet in USD to
I=11M=
0
0.75
1.5
2.25
3
Dec-17
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DB Stock Price is below 2009 levels
Stock Price of DBK in EUR over time
120
90
60
30
0
Aug 05 Nov 06 Feb 08 May 09 Aug 10 Nov 11 Feb 13 May 14 Aug 15 Nov 16 Feb 18
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Why now?
• Legacy non-core assets - resolved by Dec 2016
• Legacy litigation - mostly resolved by Jan 2017
• Capital issues - mostly resolved by April 2017
Non-Core: Non-core division shut down on 31-Dec-16. Litigation: with Department of Justice was
resolved on 17-Jan-17. DB agreed pay $7.2 bn to resolve matters related to mortgage backed securities,
Capital: raise of EUR 8 bn successfully completed on 7-Apr-17. Pro-forma Tier 1 ratio is 15.1% and CRD
4 ratio is 4.1%
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DB does not have unique circumstances
• Weak FICC - affects banks like GS even more than DB as they are
pure plays
• Low Rates in Europe - affects banks like BNP, SocGen and UBS
Trust factor - affects banks like CS, BNP and SocGen
• Regulation - affects each and every bank
• Litigation - affects US banks even more
• People - working at DB have either worked at other banks like GS
(CFO and Head of Rates), UBS (CEO), CS (Head of Fixed Income)
etc
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So what is the
problem?
Game of Thrones
• CEO vs 2 deputy co-CEOs
• Retail bank head vs CEO of
Postbank
• Head of Asset Management
wants to IPO his division
• Co-heads everywhere
• Friends and family rule
Shareholder comes last in this fight
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Little or no stock
owned by Mgmt
BNP
Deutsche bank
HSBC
SocGen
Barclays
Bank America
Citi
MS
JPM
CS
GS
0
8
Ownership of insiders
as a % of outstanding
stock
0.75
1.5
2.25
(Source: Bloomberg Oct-17)
MY OWN
BUSINESS
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The plan to double the stock price
• We have no ambition to ace the class. We just want to be bottom
quartile instead of bottom of the class. The stock price is 12.9 with 2
bn shares
P/B ratio of major banks
DB
Barclays
SocGen
BNP
CS
Citi
HSBC
UBS
GS
BankAm
MS
JPM
4.0
90
0
0.45
0.9
1.35
1.8
Price to Book (Source: Bloomberg Feb-18)
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DB has produced many plans
Never executed and finished
Strategy 2020, Strategy 2015
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Plan - details and
more details
• Current share price is EUR 12.9
Needs one empowered CEO
Phase 1 - Quick Results (6 month
timeline)
• Spin-Off/IPO not core
businesses - Receive EUR
6.5 per share
• Phase 2 - In parallel optimization
of business (12 months)
• Increase valuation on rest
of company to EUR 23.5
per share
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PHASE 1
• DB is actively preparing for an IPO of DB Asset
Management (AM) and integrating a standalone PostBank
into DB Retail Bank
• AM - is expected to IPO at a valuation of EUR 7-8bn
with DB maintaining a super-majority control STOP
THIS AND RETURN CASH AS A TAX-FREE SPINOFF -
WORTH EUR 4 PER SHARE
• Postbank - is expected to be integrated into DB retail
bank STOP THIS AND SPIN OFF (TRADE SALE) -
WORTH EUR 2-3 PER SHARE
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PHASE 2 - Wont be a GUB anymore
• DB wants to be a global universal bank (GUB). The focus
has to be on delivering shareholder value
• Investment Bank - We have very detailed plans to reduce
foot print and increase value
• Retail Bank - We need to stop the pretense and hire
professionals. We have a detailed plan for this as well
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Why do activists shy
away from banks
Regulator, Regulator & Regulator
- You need to know what each
regulator is willing to accept
Unknowns - Big annual reports
but low transparency on assets
and derivatives
• Litigation with governments -
cannot be measured
• US banks solved problems
quickly
• EU banks have been perceived
to be quasi state entities
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Why us?
• Together, we have over 50 years experience in DB and
over 60 years in European Banks
• Good relationship and understanding of all regulators -
FED, FCA and ECB/BaFin
• Strong track-record in building businesses and most
recently resolving all legacy matter of DB
• We know the management board members well. Their
personal battles are consuming the company
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How to execute spin-off of Asset
Management?
"And all you do is follow the yellow brick road" - The Wizard of Oz
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Current Status - Asset Management
• DB is planning to a primary listing/ IPO of a minority stake
of asset management
• Operational status of the IPO
• Asset Management legal entities and support functions
have already been separated from the parent
• Bankers have been hired to sell the stock in an IPO
• Current anticipated IPO timeline is early 2018
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Why an IPO and not a spin-off?
• Deutsche Bank likes asset management business and
wants to retain a super-majority control
• Management wants to give currency to asset
management to "pay employees" and have "currency" to
merge/ acquire other AM businesses
• ALL WELL AND GOOD IN NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES
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Deutsche Asset Management
(in EUR mn)
2017
Revenue
2,532
Adj Costs
Income before
Income Taxes
Invested
Assets
Net New
Money
Cost Income
Ratio
1,806
725
702 Bn
16 Bn
71%
Goodwill impairment of EUR 1.021Bn
2016
2015
3,015
3,016
3,220
2,334
(206)
682
706 Bn
744
(41) Bn
18
107%
77%
Abbey Life part of Asset Management
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Deutsche Asset Management Clean (Our model)
(in EUR mn)
2017
2016 Adjusted
2015 Adjusted
Revenue
Adj Costs
Income before
Income Taxes
Invested
Assets
Net New
Money
Cost Income
Ratio
2,532
1,806
725
702 Bn
16 Bn
2,619
1,825
794
706 Bn
(41) Bn
2,758
2,078
680
744 Bn
18
71%
69%
75%
Our estimates based on public filings
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Where do asset managers trade?
•
DB Asset Management will trade around EUR 7-8Bn at listing based on relative
value (EUR 4 per share). If spun off, there is substantial upside
Valuation of Major Asset Managers
Asset Manager AUM Net Cash
Market
Cap
E
Alternatives
AUM Absolute P/
Market
Cap
Affiliated Mgr
804
10.7
11.0
Apollo
246
11.4
13
Blackrock
5,977
17.5
80.3
Blackstone
407
10.5
38
Franklin
753
10.5
23.9
Carlyle
196
8.9
8
Eaton Vance
406
16.8
6.5
KKR
159
8.1
17
Federated
364
13.4
3.3
Oaktree
101
12.6
7
Invesco
918
12.6
14.7
Janus
Henderson
361
13.7
7.3
As of 30-
Nov-17
Legg Mason
754
12.8
3.7
Numbers in
$bn
T Rowe Price
948
18.0
24.5
Wisdom Tree
0
33.3
1.6
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Three businesses of Asset Management
Active Long Only - Biggest and most profitable business of
Asset Management. It is a classic active equity/ fixed
income management. Our estimate is around EUR 550 Bn
XTrackers - Passive ETF business where DB has a market
leadership in Europe but sub-scale in US. Our estimate is
EUR 80-90 Bn
• Alternative business - RREEF good in real estate and
infrastructure. Lumpy performance fees. AUM is 80 Bn
Breakdown of AUM and profitability is not provided
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Spin-Off of Postbank
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" -
Alice in Wonderland
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•
What is Postbank?
• What is Postbank?
Independent retail bank with
9Mn customers in Germany.
Acquired by Deutsche Bank
over 2008-2014 (multiple stages
and squeeze out)
Has EUR 118Bn deposits and a
balance sheet size of EUR
147bn
Independent bank, different
systems
BaFin did not give the waiver to
use the deposits of Postbank in
broader Deutsche Bank
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Postbank strategy -
directionless
• 2017 - DB announces its intention to
integrate Postbank
• 2015 - DB announces that it would sell
Postbank
• 2015 - all the minority shareholders of
Postbank were "squeezed out"
• 2012 - DB announces intention to fully
integrated Postbank. Appoints board
members. Integration fails over the
following years
• 2012 - DB increases stake to 93.7%
• 2010 - DB increases stake to over 50%
• 2008 - DB buys 30% of Postbank for
EUR 2.8bn from Deutsche Post
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Postbank financials
Net Revenues
2,322
3,320
3,143
Adj Costs
N/A
2,853
2,593
Income before
Income Taxes
N/A
307
584
Equity
N/A
7,226
7,164
RoTE
N/A
6.2
13.1
Cost Income
Ratio
N/A
85.8
80.3
DB Earnings Reports
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Valuation of Postbank
•
Tangible Book value of Postbank is 5.3bn
•
Our estimate of the value will be EUR 4-6Bn or 2-3 per share
•
We refer to Austria and Europe as Germany is influenced by DB and
Commerzbank
Aggregate European Bank Valuation Metrics
Bank Valuation Metrics of Germany & Austria
Germany
Austria
All Banks
Adj P/E
Price/Book
Cost/Income
Price/ Tangible
Book
18.5
9.5
P/E (adj)
P/Tangible Equity
ROTE
10.4
0.43
0.83
1.03
73%
63%
8.4%
0.44
0.92
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Management Overhaul
"No man can serve two masters" - Bible
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CEO - Pick your poison
I
Name
Title
Our Take
John Cryan
Marcus Schenck
Christian Sewing
CEO
Ex-CFO of UBS, very intelligent but not
decisive
Deputy Co-CEO
Ex-CFO of EON, ex-GS Partner, FIG
Banker. Quick to act but lacks clear
strategy
Deputy Co-CEO
Spent his career in risk management and
audit. Never managed or turned around a
businesss
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What about the elephant in the room?
Corporate and Investment Bank
It is additional upside but not the only source of value creation
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What about the elephant in the room? Corporate &
Investment Bank
•
Revenue picture shows that most of the revenues are still from classic Sales
& Trading. This business is broken
Transaction Banking and Financing are only ones earning cost of capital
Revenues in EUR Mn
2017
2016
2015
Global Transaction Banking
3,942
4,421
4,609
Equity Origination
396
405
658
Debt Origination
1,327
1,393
1,481
Advisory
508
495
575
Origination and Advisory
2,231
2,292
2,714
Financing
2,231
2,375
2,127
Sales & Trading (Equity)
2,085
2,571
3,416
Sales & Trading (FIC)
4,380
5,087
6,083
Sales & Trading
6,465
7,658
9,499
Other
(644)
17
(51)
Total net revenues
14,226
16,763
18,899
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Costs and everything else?
Costs in EUR Mn
Total net revenues
14,226
16,763
18,899
Costs
Provision for credit losses
213
816
393
Compensation and benefits
4,263
3,955
4,897
General and adm expenses
8,759
9,655
11,662
Impairment of goodwill
6
285
2,168
Restructuring activities
Total noninterest expenses
82
13,110
299
14,193
129
18,856
Income (loss) before income
877
1,705
(376)
Resources
Employees -Front Office
17,251
17,140
17,169
Total employees (full-time
41,349
39,634
39,776
Assets (at period end)
1,127,000
1,201,894
1,236,770
Risk-weighted assets (at per
232,000
237,596
247,423
CRR/CRD 4 leverage expost
1,029,946
954,203
1,007,791
Average allocated sharehold
44,182
40,361
40,753
Cost/income ratio
84.0 %
84.7%
99.8 %
Post-tax return on average s
3.3 %
2.8 %
(0.6) °A
Post-tax return on average tE
3.5 %
3.0 %
(0.6) `)/0
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What are the businesses of CIB?
Business
Sub Classification
What to do?
Equities
Corporate Finance
FICC
Global Capital Markets
Global Transaction Banking
Cash Equities
Prime Finance
Derivatives
Maintain
=km
Add a lot
Credit Portfolio
Reduce a lot
Reduce a lot
Rates
Foreign Exchange
Emerging Markets
Global Credit Trading
Asia Pacific
Reduce a lot
Maintain
Add a lot
Add a lot
Add a lot
Equity Capital Markets
Debt Capital Markets
Financing and Solutions Group
Leveraged Debt Capital Markets
Maintain
Reduce
Maintain
Add a lot
Mir
Add a lot
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RWA Breakdown
in EUR Bn
CIB
PBC ex
Postbank
Postbank
Asset
Manaiement
Credit Risk
RWA
CVA RWA
Market Risk
RWA
Operational
Risk RWA
Total RWA
124
36
37
4
9
0
0
30
5
74
7
1
5
237
44
44
9
356
As of End-2016 per DB Annual Report
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Transaction Banking
a hidden jewel
• Pure-play transaction banking
type businesses trade at high
multiples
• By this metric, GTB will be
worth EUR 16 bn as a
independent listed company
• This is EUR 8/ share
• Transaction Banking has a
revenue of EUR 4bn, we
estimate the profit margin is
20-25%
Market
Cap
P/E
State
Street
Northern
Trust
Bank of
New York
36.5
16.24
22.2
20.45
55.5
15.80
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Costs
• DB overpays to infrastructure employees compared to
front office employees. Instituting rules will reduce costs -
• No supplemental base salaries for non-front office
• No international travel for non-client facing
employees (phone or VC)
• Individual incentives tied to reducing costs
• Eliminate co-heads across the bank
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What about the retail bank and wealth
management?
Lots of opportunity
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PBC financials includes Postbank
Private & Commercial Clients
2017
20161
2015
5,013
5,226
5,603
Postbank
3,124
3,366
3,112
Wealth Management
2,041
1,880
2,097
Hua Xia
0
618
(175)
Total net revenues
10,178
11,090
10,637
Net interest income
5,876
6,201
6,415
Commission and fee income
3,367
3,395
3,816
Remaining income
935
1,494
406
Provision for credit losses
313
439
511
Compensation and benefits
3,966
4,042
4,161
General and administrative expenses
5,157
5,029
5,139
Impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets
0
360
0
3,608
586
13,495
Restructuring activities
141
Total noninterest expenses
9,495
9,212
Income (loss) before income taxes
382
1,439
(3,370)
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PBC Resource Efficiency
Resources
Employees
43,671
45,045
46,601
Total employees
51,303
53,533
54,509
Assets (at period end)
330,884
329,869
312,732
Risk-weighted assets (at period end)
88,656
86,082
92,857
CRR/CRD 4 leverag
342,146
342,424
329,902
Average allocated shareholders' equity
14,793
14,072
14,182
Invested Assets
505
501
583
Net asset inflows
5
(42)
3
Client Assets
711
694
771
Efficiency Ratios
Cost/income ratio
84.4 %
83.1 %
126.9 %
Post-tax return on average shareholders' equity
6.3 %
6.7 %
(15.4) %
Post-tax return on average tangible shareholders' equit
7.3 ok
7.7 %
(18.1) %
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PBC versus the rest
Balance Sheet
Op Profit (2017)
What is asset side?
Aareal
BAWAG
DB Retail
Bank
44bn
310-350Mn
Structured CRE
40bn
500Mn
Bonds, consumer loans, property
lending, DACH Corporates, bought loan
140bn
700Mn
These are our estimates as Postbank and
international division are not well
disclosed
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Plan for the Remaining Retail Bank - Asset Side
• Great retail banks have very effective assets or high NIM
• The differentiated asset base comes from specialty lending
• BAWAG - Significant bond portfolio (6bn out of 36bn portfolio)
• Aareal Bank - Pure play focus on CRE
• NIM can easily be increased by EUR 200Mn
• Partner with KKR, LoneStar or Blackstone to be their preferred CRE and NPL financier
• Lend to small real estate developers in Germany
• Bring Lending Club/ SoFi to DACH and be the balance sheet provider
• Commissions can be increased by EUR 100Mn
• Better focus on selling equities and build a Schwab type platform
• Acquire or hire new fintech platforms
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Wealth Management
•
It is a mid-sized global wealth management
•
It is currently run by a former head of strategy than a wealth-
management expert
•
We need a strong leadership to build and grow
in EUR Mn
2017
2016
2015
Revenue
Invested
Assets
Asset
Inflows
Client
Assets
2,041
1,880
2,097
506 Bn
501 Bn
583 Bn
4 Bn
(42) Bn
3 Bn
711 Bn
694 Bn
771 Bn
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"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things
to get extraordinary results"
-Warren Buffett
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Division
Value per Share
PostBank
AM
GTB
IB
PBC
Sum
2
4
8
16
3
33
44
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