Permanent TSB Eyes 10% Good-Bank Return on Equity by 2017
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Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc, the Irish state-owned lender, is forecasting a 10 percent return on equity for its good-bank unit by 2017 under a plan to return it to private ownership after a bailout.
The bank is targeting a 5 percent return on equity by 2017, including its internal bad bank of distressed mortgages and a unit of loans to be sold, according to an investor presentation seen by Bloomberg News. David Clerkin, a spokesman for the Dublin-based firm, confirmed the contents of the presentation, dated Jan. 7.
Jeremy Masding, who has been chief executive officer for almost two years, considered closing the 99.2 percent state-owned bank as its bad-loan losses soared following the collapse of a real estate bubble. His board decided that the ?least worst option? was to keep it going, he said in August.
?Ireland?s economy is recovering, with clear improvements in the labor and property markets,? the bank said in the presentation. ?Investors are well positioned to benefit from improved consumer sentiment.?
Shares in Permanent TSB climbed 16 percent to 7.4 euro cents at 4:20 p.m. in Dublin trading. The stock has gained 64 percent this year.
Permanent TSB sees European Union approval for its restructuring plan, arising from a 4 billion-euro bailout ($5.5 billion), by April, according to the presentation.
Government Bailout
Return-on-equity, or ROE, is a measure of profitability. The Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index, which tracks 44 lenders, has a combined ROE of 3.5 percent. The metric tumbled from about 20 percent before the financial crisis, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Irish taxpayers have injected 4 billion euros into Dublin-based Permanent TSB since July 2011. They recouped 1.3 billion euros last year by selling the lender?s former life insurance arm to Great-West Lifeco Inc., the Canadian insurer.
The bank plans to return the good bank to full or partial market ownership by 2017, according to the presentation. It will ?seek opportunities to attract a strategic or capital-markets investor early in the planning period,? it said.
Permanent TSB may start marketing the good bank, which has about 15 billion euros of loans, in the second half of 2014, a person with knowledge of the matter said in October. It also plans to start selling parts of its 10 billion-euro non-core unit, including its U.K. residential mortgage loans, this year, two people said at the time.
The bank plans to rebuild its group net-interest margin, what it makes on loans compared with what it pays on borrowings, to 1.5 percent ?in the medium term,? according to the Jan. 7 presentation. This compares with a 0.82 percent margin in the first half of last year, when the lender posted a 449 million-euro interim operating loss as a result of a 430 million-euro loan-loss charge.
Masding said in March he sees the group, which has been unprofitable since 2008, returning to profit at the ?back end? of 2016 on a month-by-month basis.
To contact the reporters on this story: Donal Griffin in Dublin at dgriffin10@bloomberg.net; Joe Brennan in Dublin at jbrennan29@bloomberg.net
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