Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. It's now 10:30 A.M. and time to begin the annual meeting of shareholders of Brookfield Asset Management. My name is Frank McKenna, and as Chair of the Board, it's my pleasure to chair today's meeting. On behalf of the board and management, I would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone joining us through our live broadcast. Similar to our meeting last year, voting during the meeting will take place on our webcast platform. I will now explain this process. We will conduct the votes on the matter before us via poll. On a poll, every shareholder entitled to vote on the matter has one vote in respect of each share entitled to be voted on the matter and held by the shareholder. The poll will be open for all resolutions at the same time and throughout the formal portion of the meeting.
This will allow you to choose to vote on each resolution immediately or wait until conclusion of discussion on each resolution prior to casting your vote. Now, if you voted in advance of the meeting and do not wish to revoke your previously submitted proxies, no further action is required. We will welcome questions from our shareholders. As described in our management information circular for this meeting, participants can submit questions by clicking on the messaging icon on the top of the webcast and typing a question. Please indicate whether your question is of a general nature or if it relates to a motion being considered as part of the meeting's formal business. Questions relating to a particular motion will be answered at the appropriate time in the meeting.
Note that we recommend that you submit questions related to motions being tabled as soon as possible, as there is a 30-second delay in the webcast. Questions of a general nature will be answered during a question and answer period following the formal business of the meeting. Please click the Submit button once you have finished typing your question. Our corporate secretary, who is serving as moderator of this meeting, will read out the questions, and either a member of management or I will respond. If we receive similar questions, we will read one of them and note it to be one of a number of similar questions. We're unable to receive questions from participants joining the meeting only by telephone. Further, if you connected to the meeting as a guest, you will not be able to submit a question.
We will endeavor to answer all questions submitted during the allotted time. Now, moving on, we wish to thank you for your participation in today's meeting. I'd also like to acknowledge that we received a shareholder proposal for this meeting. We are grateful for the engagement that our shareholders demonstrate. We will address the matters raised in the shareholder proposal later in the meeting. I now call the meeting to order and would ask TSX Trust Company by its representatives, Ellen Kim and Kay Harrison, to act as scrutineers. I will also ask our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Justin Beber, to act as secretary of today's meeting. In addition to Justin, it's now my pleasure to introduce the members of management who are with us today. Bruce Flatt, our Chief Executive Officer, and Nicholas Goodman, our Chief Financial Officer.
Following the conclusion of the formal part of the meeting, there will be a presentation from management. As outlined in our management information circular, we have five items of business to be considered today. First, to receive the consolidated financial statements of the corporation for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2021, including the external auditor's report. Second, to elect directors who will serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders. Third, to appoint the external auditor and authorize the director to set its remuneration. Fourth, to consider an advisory resolution to the corporation's approach to executive compensation. Fifth, to consider the shareholder proposal described in our management information circular. As mentioned, in connection with the business to be dealt with today, all voting will be conducted by online ballot through the live audio webcast platform. Voting is now open on all resolutions.
In order to expedite the formal part of today's meeting, I've asked certain shareholders to move and second various resolutions. Although this procedure will assist in the handling of the formal matters, it is not, I repeat, not intended to discourage anyone from submitting questions in reference to any resolution after it has been proposed and seconded. I'm advised that the notice calling this meeting and the management information circular were disseminated to voting shareholders in accordance with all applicable laws. I've asked the corporate secretary to keep a copy of the notice and proof of mailing with the minutes of the meeting. The minutes of last year's annual meeting of shareholders held on June 11th , 2021, are also available upon request should any shareholder wish to review them.
Based upon the scrutineer's preliminary report and attendance, the secretary has confirmed that we have a quorum present. I therefore declare the meeting properly constituted for the conduct of business for which it has been called. Turning to the first item of formal business, I will now table the corporation's 2021 annual report to shareholders, which includes the corporation's consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December the 31st of 2021, together with the external auditor's report. Our annual report has been mailed to shareholders who requested it and is available in the meeting materials for this live webcast as well as on your website.
Mr. Chair, we have not received any questions or comments submitted in connection with the financial statements.
Thank you. The second item of business at our meeting today is to elect directors who will serve until our next annual meeting of shareholders. To assist you in identifying our directors, their photos will be shown on the slides of the webcast platform as I read their names. The eight proposed nominees for election by holders of the corporation's Class A limited voting shares are Elyse Allan, Angela Braly, Janice Fukakusa, Maureen Kempston Darkes, Hutham Olayan, Seek Ngee Huat, Diana Taylor, and myself. The eight nominees for election by the holders of the corporation's Class B limited voting shares are Jeffrey Blidner, Jack Cockwell, Marcel Coutu, Bruce Flatt, Brian Lawson, Howard Marks, Rafael Miranda, and Lord Gus O'Donnell. All of the 16 proposed nominees were elected at our last annual meeting in June 2021. They're standing for re-election today.
Information on all 16 director nominees is set out in our management information circular, which was posted on our website for shareholder review and is available from the company upon request.
Mr. Chair, we have not received any questions or comments with respect to the nomination of our directors.
The meeting is now open to receive nominations for the election of the proposed directors. We invite shareholders and proxy holders to submit their votes online if they have not already done so. As a reminder, if you've already voted or sent in your proxy, there's no need to do anything unless you wish to change your vote.
Mr. Chair, I nominate for election as directors the eight nominees for the Class A limited voting shares and the eight nominees for the Class B limited voting shares named in the management information circular dated April 28th, 2022.
Thank you, Jaspreet.
Mr. Chair, I second the motion.
Thank you, Monica. Are there any further nominations? If not, I declare the nominations closed. As there are 16 directors to be elected, and the same number of nominees, I now declare that those nominated have been duly elected as directors of the corporation. Congratulations. The third item of business today is the appointment of the corporation's external auditor and authorizing the directors to set their remuneration. As stated in the management information circular, the audit committee of our board of directors has recommended to shareholders that Deloitte LLP be reappointed as the corporation's external auditor.
Mr. Chair, I move that Deloitte LLP be appointed as the external auditor of the corporation until the next annual meeting and that the directors be authorized to set their remuneration.
Thank you, Monica.
Mr. Chair, I second the motion.
Thank you, Jaspreet. The resolution has been moved and seconded. The motion is now before the meeting for discussion.
Mr. Chair, we have not received any questions or comments submitted in connection with the appointment of auditors.
Thank you. Adoption of this motion requires the favorable vote of the majority of the votes cast at the meeting by the holders of each of the Class A limited voting shares and the Class B limited voting shares, voting as separate classes. Management has received proxies representing approximately 74% of the corporation's Class A limited voting shares and 100% of the Class B limited voting shares. These proxies direct me to vote over 93% of the Class A limited voting shares and all of the Class B limited voting shares in favor of the resolution. I will now call for shareholders and proxy holders to submit their vote if they have not already done so.
The fourth item of business today is the approval of the advisory resolution on the corporation's approach to executive compensation, which is described more fulsomely in the management information circular. The corporation has put forth an advisory resolution at this meeting as part of its ongoing efforts to both meet its corporate governance objectives and to ensure a very high level of shareholder engagement. Because this is an advisory vote, the results are not binding on the board. However, the board and Management Resources and Compensation Committee will take into account the results of the vote as appropriate when considering future compensation policies and decisions. The board welcomes comments and questions on the corporation's executive compensation practices.
Mr. Chair, I move that the advisory resolution accepting the approach to executive compensation described in the management information circular dated April 28th, 2022 , be approved.
Thank you, Jaspreet.
Mr. Chair, I second the motion.
Thank you, Monica. Re-resolution has been moved and seconded. The motion is now before the meeting for discussion.
Mr. Chair, we have not received any questions or comments submitted in connection with the corporation's approach to executive compensation.
Adoption of this motion requires the favorable vote of a majority of the Class A limited voting shares. Management has received proxies representing about 74% of the corporation's Class A limited voting shares. These proxies direct me to vote over 90% of the Class A limited voting shares in favor of the resolution. I will now call for shareholders and proxy holders to submit their vote if they have not already done so. The fifth and final item of business today is the consideration of a shareholder proposal. The proposal and the corporation's response to the proposal are set out fully in greater detail on page 79-80 of our Management Information Circular. I hope shareholders and others read this. We believe this proposal raises important issues to which we as a board have given much thought. The shareholder proposal was submitted by B.C.
General Employees' Union General Fund and the B.C. General Employees' Union Strike Fund. At this time, can I have a motion in respect to the shareholder proposal?
Mr. Chair, the shareholder proposal submitted by the B.C. General Employees' Union General Fund and the B.C. General Employees' Union Strike Fund, as described in detail on page 79 of our Management Information Circular is hereby moved.
Thank you, Jaspreet.
Mr. Chair, I second the motion.
Thank you, Monica. The proposal has been moved and seconded, and the motion is now before the meeting for discussion.
Mr. Chair, we have not received any questions or comments submitted in connection with the shareholder proposal.
Adoption of this motion requires the favorable vote of the majority of the votes cast at the meeting by the holders of each of the Class A limited voting shares and the Class B limited voting shares, voting as separate classes. Management has received proxies representing about 74% of the corporation's Class A limited voting shares and 100% of the Class B limited voting shares. These proxies direct me to vote over 82% of the Class A limited voting shares and all of the Class B limited voting shares against the proposal. I now call for the vote on the motion by submitting your votes. Voting is now closed on all resolutions. I'm advised that our corporate secretary has the results of the vote based on the final tabulations of proxy votes received.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to report as there are 16 directors to be elected and the same number of nominees. I now declare that those nominated have been duly elected as directors of the corporation. On the appointment of the corporation's external auditor and authorization of directors to set their remuneration, I declare the motion carried. On the approval of the advisory resolution on the corporation's approach to executive compensation, I declare the motion carried. On the approval of the shareholder resolution, I declare the motion is not carried and the shareholder proposal has not passed. The final voting results will be available after the meeting and posted to SEDAR+ at www.sedar.com.
Ladies and gentlemen, that completes the formal business of today's meeting. There being no other business, I declare the meeting terminated. Now that the meeting has concluded, Nick Goodman will be leading a presentation on behalf of our management team. At the end of that presentation, we will be available to respond to any questions or comments that you might have submitted. Now, please note, in responding to questions and in talking about our new initiatives and our financial and operating performance, we may make forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to known and unknown risks, and future results may differ materially. For further information on known risk factors, you are encouraged to review the business environment and risk section of management's discussion and analysis in our annual report.
Finally, we would like to ensure that all shareholders who are interested in asking a question have the opportunity to do so. We'll make every effort on our part to address questions during the allotted question and answer period. With that, I would invite Nick Goodman to commence management's presentation.
Thanks, Mr. Chair, and good morning, everyone. I will start by providing a review of the last 12 months and provide an update on our business. I will then spend some time on the current environment and the outlook for the business. Looking back over the last 12 months, our operations were resilient, and our business continued to grow. Over the past year, we continued to see large amounts of capital being allocated to alternatives, and our strong fundraising momentum continued. We were able to deploy this into high quality, often inflation-protected real assets, and at the same time, we continued to sell stabilized assets, realizing very strong investment returns. During the year, we raised $71 billion of capital across our asset management franchise.
We invested $70 billion across our businesses and across a number of different geographies, and we monetized $37 billion of capital through the sale of mature assets. Our asset management business continues to scale. We increased our fee-bearing capital by $60 billion or 19% over the past year. It now stands at $379 billion. This includes contributions from our current round of flagship fundraising for our new strategies and the growth of our perpetual affiliates, and we continue to see our fundraising accelerating. The breadth of our franchise, diversification of capital makes our business somewhat unique. In times of consolidation, brands win, and we continue to widen our moats. We expect to have our best fundraising year ever this year. That is on top of a record past few years.
We are currently raising capital for our latest round of flagship funds. Our areas of investment focus and strong track records are very appealing to our clients, and we are on track to achieve our $100 billion target. To date, we have raised $16 billion for our opportunistic credit fund, are closing in on $15 billion for our transition fund, and have raised $12 billion to date for our real estate flagship fund. Our latest infrastructure and private equity flagship funds are currently in the market, and we expect them both to be larger than the prior vintage. In addition to our flagship funds, we continue to grow our complementary product offering for both institutional and retail investors. We've made a lot of progress on developing retail products for distribution through the private wealth channel.
Our non-traded new REIT is now on 8 distribution platforms and should start ramping up its capital inflows towards the end of the year. Oaktree also just launched a credit product catered for private wealth, and we continue to develop new innovative strategies for retail investors over time. In total, we currently offer over 50 different investment strategies, providing our clients with a wide array of products to invest in. We were able to find investment opportunities for value to deploy capital that we've been raising. These opportunities spanned across a number of geographies. Starting with infrastructure, we invested $4.5 billion of equity into Inter Pipeline, a Canadian diversified midstream operation. Within our private equity segment, we acquired Modulaire Group, a leading provider of modular leasing services in Europe and Asia Pacific for $1.6 billion in equity.
Our renewable power and transition segment acquired Urban Grid for $650 million, a premier renewable developer with 20,000 MW of solar and energy storage projects. Our real estate segment acquired a leading real estate manager in Germany concentrated in office properties. This operating portfolio includes over 15 million sq ft of space. Most recently, our insurance solutions business acquired American National for $5.1 billion. This acquisition adds approximately $30 billion of total assets and $18 billion of cash and financial assets to our insurance business. This acquisition provides us with an insurance platform in the U.S. with direct origination capabilities that adds to our pension risk transfer business and our strategic partnership with American Equity Life.
In our five-year plan, we expect to grow our insurance business to roughly $200 billion, and we will continue to grow while focusing on generating strong returns on equity and driving flows to our credit business. In short, our asset management business has grown significantly and is well positioned to continue the trajectory. Our fee-bearing capital is continuously growing. We have record levels of core liquidity, and we've been actively monetizing mature assets and recycling capital into new growth strategies. Our principal investments also continue to deliver strong compound annual returns. Today, our principal investments focused across renewable power and transition, real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and insurance solutions generate close to $3 billion of cash distributions annually. They provide downside protection and a steady source of resilient and growing cash flows, and they further benefit from capital appreciation. Our cash flows continue to scale over time.
Distributable earnings over the last 12 months was $5 billion. That's up 2.5x Compared to $2 billion five years ago. Our liquidity is the strongest it has ever been, with $30 billion of core liquidity, which includes pro forma adjustments for the closing of American National, +$70 billion of uncalled fund commitments, giving us total liquidity or deployable capital of around $100 billion. This is further bolstered by growing fee-related earnings to benefit from the scaling of our flagship funds and perpetual affiliates and the introduction of new strategies. All of this combined results in our projection to double fee-related earnings over the next five years. Distributions from our principal investments that are largely fixed and recurring in nature are projected to compound at approximately 15% over the next five years.
The realization of carried interest as we monetize investments that were held in our earlier vintage funds and our balance sheet recycling initiatives, which include monetizations of principal investments, to strengthen our liquidity positions as well to execute on our strategic growth initiatives in the future. Now that we've summarized the past, let's look ahead. The current economic environment is favorable for our business. We own and invest in essential service real assets that form the backbone of the global economy. They offer strong returns across economic cycles and with inflation-linked revenues and high cash margins are very well positioned. We own and manage one of the largest portfolios of cash-generating inflation-protected assets in the world. This allows us to continue compounding our capital and deliver strong returns for our clients.
The characteristics of our businesses includes factors such as being highly cash generative in their operations, providers of essential products and services with inflation-linked revenues, high-quality companies that are market leaders in their industries, and we structure all of our investments with a conservative capital structure and ensure that debt is sustainable through cycles. Looking ahead, if we achieve our plans, we are targeting to double the size and value of the business over the next five years. We are confident in achieving our plans as we have a significant presence in real assets, specifically real estate infrastructure and renewable power in transition.
We have strong relationships with the largest institutional investors that allocate to alternatives and a very innovative and growing product offering to offer both new and existing clients, including retail. Our fee-bearing capital is expected to more than double over the next five years to $830 billion. Our $72 billion in principal investments are well positioned to grow and provide us with stable cash flows. If we achieve our growth plans, distributable earnings should grow accordingly to $11 billion annually in five years. We have a broad source of growth to achieve these plans, including deepening existing relationships with our clients, originating new relationships, expanding distribution channels, and developing new complementary investment strategies. Our strong client relationships position us well for fundraising.
Over the last five years, the average commitments across our top 25 LPs has quadrupled from $1 billion to $4 billion, and we expect to double this over the next five years. Cross-selling and LPs investing in multiple products presents us with a large opportunity that we are now seeing ramp up. Lastly, new fund offerings have allowed us to attract new LPs to Brookfield. We continue to develop new strategies and products that cater to our existing and targeted clients' needs and target new distribution channels. These new offerings are a catalyst for growth as they attract capital for new LPs, as well as allow existing LPs to increase the number of products they invest in with us.
Some recent examples of new products include our transition fund, which is focused on the decarbonization of the global energy grid, and our real estate secondary strategy, which both attracted new large institutional LPs to Brookfield. Turning our focus to ESG. We always invest with a high priority on ESG principles, and ESG is really embedded into our culture and everything we do. We mitigate the impact of our operations on the environment. With all of our investments, we measure that when we are divesting an asset, we are leaving it in a better position from an ESG position than when we acquired it. We ensure the well-being and safety of our employees. We uphold strong governance practice and conduct business at the highest level of ethical, legal and regulatory standards.
We are good corporate citizens and participate in a number of philanthropic initiatives that give back to charities in our communities. In summary, our operating businesses are performing well and continue to demonstrate their resiliency. Our asset management franchise and client base continue to grow. We are well positioned to take advantage of the current and future economic environment, and we have inflation protected assets that can perform well and even better as inflation persists. Lastly, I want to highlight that we are progressing our efforts to distribute and publicly list a 25% interest in our asset management business.
Our asset management business has achieved significant scale and with an extremely strong growth profile ahead for both the asset management business and our invested capital, we believe that now is a good time to create a degree of operational separation between the two. As we have seen with our other businesses, there are clear benefits of having a decentralized, dedicated management team with a singular focus. We also believe that a separate, hopefully well-priced asset manager security will provide added optionality as we seek to accelerate our growth. Fundamentally, nothing is changing about how we do business. Our alignment and synergies between our principal investments and asset management business will remain in place, as well as our compensation philosophy and culture. The security, the manager security, will provide optionality for investors.
You can either invest in the corporation which will own our principal investments and 75% of the asset management business. You can own a pure play asset manager. As a reminder, we do not expect this transaction to have any impact on our corporate credit ratings. We expect to complete the distribution by the end of this year on a tax-free basis for Canadian and U.S. shareholders. We expect the new listed manager to have a payout ratio of approximately 90% of distributable earnings. Lastly, the manager will be a Canadian C Corp and will be dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the TSX. In conclusion, we're focused on four things. Maintaining sufficient liquidity across all parts of our business. Remaining disciplined when assessing investment opportunities. Deploying capital for value and delivering long-term returns to our investors.
Lastly, setting ourselves up for long-term growth. Thank you all for your time. That concludes our presentation. Bruce, I and the management team would now be pleased to answer any questions.
Mr. Chair, there are no questions to be addressed.
Thank you, Justin. Ladies and gentlemen, if there are no further questions or comments, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to join us today. I hope you have found the meeting and management presentation informative, and we truly do appreciate your participation. Thank you.