BROOKFIELD AUSTRALIAN OPPORTUNITIES FUND(BAO)

this fund deregistered today

delisted following the approval to wind up the Fund as approved by unitholders at the Unitholder Meeting held on Monday, 24 September 2012.

we understand the Fund will liquidate its portfolio of listed securities with the exception of its holding in the Brookfield Prime Property Fund and the Multiplex European Property Fund. The holding in the Brookfield Prime Property Fund will be sold to a company in the Brookfield group if the second resolution is passed at this meeting and the holding in the Multiplex European Property Fund will be held in the BAO Trust. The Fund will use part of the sale proceeds to reduce its debt facility and the remainder of the debt facility will be transferred to the BAO Trust. All remaining assets and liabilities of the Fund will be transferred into the BAO Trust. An in specie distribution will be made by the Fund. Unitholders will receive one unit in the BAO Trust for every one unit held in the Fund. The Fund will then be de-listed from the ASX and wound up. The BAO Trust will then pay a cash distribution of 1.5 cents per unit to unitholders and will hold the assets transferred to it by the Fund

we understand that on or about this date the company undertook, proposed to undertake or was the subject of the following corporate action: - winding up proposal including immediate sale of most of the Fund's listed assets and reduction of the Fund's debt facility; remaining assets and debt to be transferred to an unlisted registered managed investment scheme (BAO Trust) - this corporate event may appear elsewhere in this company record

The securities of Brookfield Australian Opportunities Fund (the "Fund") will be suspended from quotation at the close of trading today, Friday 19 October 2012, in accordance with listing rule 17.2, pending the removal of the Fund after unitholders resolved to wind up the Fund. Security Code: BAO

name changed from Multiplex Acumen Property Fund