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South African investors return to multi asset portfolios

The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (ASISA) revealed information about investment trends in the third quarter, with interesting findings.

Assets under management by South African Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) moved over R3 trillion again after dropping to R2.98 trillion in the second quarter of 2022.

The local CIS industry first reached the R3 trillion milestone in the fourth quarter of last year, finishing 2021 with R3.14 trillion in assets under management.

By the end of September 2022, assets under management had returned to R3.01 trillion.

The local CIS industry attracted healthy net inflows of R39 billion in the third quarter, bringing total net inflows for the 12 months to the end of September 2022 to R121 billion.

Sunette Mulder, ASISA senior policy advisor, noted that the third quarter net inflows of R39 billion were the strongest reported by the industry since the fourth quarter of 2020.

The healthy net inflows – consisting of dividends reinvested and new money – were achieved in a volatile environment.

Investor trends

Investors continued to favour South African multi asset portfolios in the third quarter.

Portfolios in the SA multi asset category are designed to provide diversification across asset classes within a single portfolio.

The SA Multi Asset category comprises 774 portfolios and holds 49% of total industry assets.

The SA Multi Asset category attracted R66 billion in net inflows for the 12 months to the end of September 2022, the highest in six years.

Investors opted predominantly for SA multi asset income portfolios – R26.1 billion in net annual flows – followed by SA multi asset high equity portfolios with R23.6 billion.

The SA interest bearing category recorded net inflows of R26 billion, while SA money market funds attracted net inflows of R5 billion.

Portfolios in the SA Equity category received net inflows of R2 billion for the 12 months to the end of September 2022.

Offshore focus

Locally registered foreign portfolios held assets under management of R665 billion at the end of September 2022, up from the R638 billion held at the end of the second quarter of 2022.

These foreign portfolios recorded net inflows of R0.5 billion for the quarter ended September 2022. Total net inflows for the year ended 30 September 2022 came to R24.8 billion.

Foreign currency unit trust portfolios are denominated in currencies such as the dollar, pound, euro, and yen and are offered by foreign unit trust companies.

There are currently 623 foreign currency-denominated portfolios on sale in South Africa.

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