Equity Fund Objective

The objective of this portfolio is to provide investors with maximum capital growth over the long-term through investments in a diversified portfolio of companies. Income will be of secondary importance. This implies that the portfolio will experience volatility over shorter periods.

Equity Fund Strategy

The portfolio will invest in assets in liquid form and in shares, across all economic groups and industry sectors of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa as well as across the range of large, mid and smaller cap shares and such other financial instruments as may be permitted by prevailing regulations. The investment manager will also be allowed to invest in listed and unlisted financial instruments (derivatives) as allowed by the Act from time to time in order to achieve its investment objective. The Manager shall be permitted to invest on behalf of the portfolio in offshore investments as legislation permits. Apart from the above, the portfolio may also invest in participatory interests of portfolios of collective investment schemes.

The idea is to take specific strong-conviction views on a selected group of counters in order to reflect the house view on assets/asset classes. All views will be quantitive driven – i.e. we use models to generate views and bets.

ASISA Category

SA General Equity