Lewis Group Limited Integrated Annual Report 2013

Lewis Group has pleasure in presenting its Integrated Annual Report to stakeholders for the 2013 financial year. This report builds on the enhanced disclosure of the group’s first two integrated annual reports and has again been prepared in line with best practice based on the principles of King lll.

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Safeguard Properties

Safeguard Properties is the largest privately held mortgage field services company in the country. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1990 by Robert Klein, Safeguard inspects and maintains defaulted and foreclosed properties for a wide range of clients in the mortgage industry, from local loan servicing companies to national publicly traded mortgage servicing corporations. The company has grown from a regional preservation company with a few employees and a handful of contractors performing services in the Midwest, to a national company providing services in 50 states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Safeguard is supported by a nationwide network of subcontractors trained and qualified to perform all requested superintendence, preservation and maintenance functions anywhere in the country.

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ESG Consulting as a Cutting-Edge Driver for Real Estate Valuation

whitePaper | February 5, 2023

A key challenge facing real estate investors and property owners is ensuring the value of their portfolios keeps rising. Various external factors can harm property valuations, but applying environmental, social, and governance standards causes increases. Many companies are turning to ESG consulting to take advantage of this trend.

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Retail Lending in a Post Covid World: Winners and Laggards

whitePaper | May 15, 2022

Retail Credit continues to gain prominence in India, rising from 20% of overall systemic credit in FY15 to c.30% now, driven by strong customer demand, lower NPAs and better margins compared to industrial/corporate lending. In FY21, retail credit clocked slower growth as private consumption plunged on account of the pandemic and its corresponding impact on economic activity. However, between FY21 and FY24, retail credit is expected to make a strong comeback and grow at 13-15%. Within the retail lending space, NBFCs (including HFCs) have competed strongly against Banks – across economic cycles. NBFCs have a market share of c. 40% in Retail Credit as compared to 20% market share in overall credit.

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Four causes of inflation that impact real estate

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

The U.S. Department of Labor defines inflation as “the overall general upward price movement of goods and services in an economy.” When we wrote our inflation piece in the summer of 2021, many economists and politicians were characterizing inflation as transitory. A year later, inflation has started to take hold in key areas of the market which will have an impact on how real estate investors should view their current and prospective investment. The annual inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has been 7.5% or higher since January of this year, peaking at 9.05% in June.

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2023 Global Predictions

whitePaper | January 13, 2023

2023 will likely provide important answers to some of the most pressing questions market participants have been contending with for the past 12 (plus) months. Chiefly, in the face of supply chain disruptions, war and a boom in post-lockdown demand, measures of inflation soared to once in a multi-generational level.

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NeoTech Whitepaper

whitePaper | April 30, 2022

NeoTech is creating smart city digital infrastructure that can lead to massive improvements in citizens quality of life and increase the protection of the environment while reducing the cost of doing so. NeoTech uses cutting edge technology in both hardware and software to recreate a 1:1 exact replica of the Earth in utterly digital form, enabling thousands of new applications to be spun off on top of our new Metaverse, enabling startups, enterprises, and people alike to take part in this new technological revolution.

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Revolutionizing the Global Real Estate market

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

Due to lesser volatility and better returns, the real-estate industry has been a consistently favored asset class among investors. Driven by the myriad of benefits associated with property investments. The demand for international real-estate has also seen an upsurge. Just in the past seven years, the total sales value of international real estate assets has increased from $70 billion to $370 billion. Among all the nations. The countries in Asia-Pacific have shown a steady increase in capital outflow into international property investments. Among all the countries, the individual and corporate investors from China alone have spent an estimated $150 billion in real estate overseas in 2017. However, such overseas transactions are riddled with many challenges, including the lack of direct access to a suitable foreign bank and inhibiting government restrictions on transactions. Even when cross-border remittances are made, there is the obstacle of increased transaction costs and delay in receiving payments.

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Spotlight

Safeguard Properties

Safeguard Properties is the largest privately held mortgage field services company in the country. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1990 by Robert Klein, Safeguard inspects and maintains defaulted and foreclosed properties for a wide range of clients in the mortgage industry, from local loan servicing companies to national publicly traded mortgage servicing corporations. The company has grown from a regional preservation company with a few employees and a handful of contractors performing services in the Midwest, to a national company providing services in 50 states, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Safeguard is supported by a nationwide network of subcontractors trained and qualified to perform all requested superintendence, preservation and maintenance functions anywhere in the country.

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