WHO THIS IS APPROPRIATE FOR?


Investors who are seeking long-term capital growth through exposure to the South African equity market by investing in a fund with a low tracking error relative to the FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Total Return Index and who are cost conscious.

INVESTMENT AND RETURN
OBJECTIVE


The Fund aims to deliver returns close to the FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Total Return Index at low cost. Although the Fund is structured similarly to the All Share, it can out / underperform the All Share by small amounts over time.

RISK INDICATOR

Aggressive

These portfolios typically hold meaningful equity and/or offshore exposure that may result in significant capital volatility over all periods. Due to their nature expected long-term returns are higher than for the other risk categories.

Expected Long Term Returns

  • Conservative
  • Moderately Conservative
  • Moderate
  • Moderately Aggressive
  • Aggressive

Expected Capital Volatility / Risk of Short Term Capital Loss

Meet the Investment Team

Seeiso Matlanyane

Seeiso
Matlanyane

Head of Equities
Romelon Chetty

Romelon
Chetty

Quantitative Analyst
Ashleigh Allan

Ashleigh
Allan

Equity, Derivatives and FX Trader
Dimpho Sekhaolelo

Dimpho
Sekhaolelo

Quantitative Analyst
Nicholas de Clercq

Nicholas
de Clercq

Quantitative Analyst
Bastian Teichgreeber

Bastian
Teichgreeber

Chief Investment Officer

THE RETAIL SALES TEAM

Murray Anderson

Murray
Anderson

+27 83 676 5284 Email Me Head of Retail
Kirsty Jacobs

Kirsty
Jacobs

+27 82 676 9526 Email Me Johannesburg
Dawie Carstens

Dawie
Carstens

+27 82 373 7847 Email Me Western Cape
Chris Labuschagne

Chris
Labuschagne

+27 82 766 2677 Email Me Pretoria, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
Emma Potts

Emma
Potts

+27 82 660 7544 Email Me Kwa-Zulu Natal
Divan Herholdt

Divan
Herholdt

+27 82 887 2997 Email Me Eastern Cape, Southern Cape, Outlying Western Cape
Jaco Rossouw

Jaco
Rossouw

+27 72 720 0279 Email Me North West, Northern Cape, Free State, East, South and West Rands Johannesburg
Sitembele Mandondo

Sitembele
Mandondo

+27 82 254 9666 Email Me Johannesburg

ADDITIONAL EQUITY FUNDS

Prescient Core Equity Fund

Classification: South African - Equity - General

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: South African equity market exposure
  • Benchmark Index: FTSE/JSE Africa Shareholder Weighted Total Return Index
  • Represents 99% of the full market cap value of all eligible securities listed on the JSE.
  • Weighting of the shares in the index is calculated by the free-float methodology.
  • This method considers only readily available shares which gives a more accurate representation of the value of the underlying companies in the stock market index.

Prescient Core Capped Equity Fund

Classification: South African - Equity - General

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: South African equity market exposure
  • Benchmark Index: FTSE/JSE Capped Shareholder Weighted All Share Total Return Index (Capped SWIX)
  • Consists of the 40 most investable companies in the Shareholder Weighted Index (SWIX)
  • Weighting of the shares in the index is calculated by the free-float methodology.

Prescient Equity Fund

Classification: South African – Equity – General

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: South African equity market exposure
  • Benchmark: ASISA South African General Equity category over the medium- to long-term
  • Uses quantitative techniques to dynamically construct a portfolio that is most representative of the general equity category average then employs uncorrelated return enhancement techniques combined with efficient and cost-effective portfolio construction. methods to generate outperformance.
  • The use of fixed-interest portable alpha techniques to enhance returns can provide exposure to cash and money market instruments, which are uncorrelated and reliable sources of additional return.

Prescient Core Top 40 Equity Fund

Classification: South African - Equity - Large Cap

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: Large capitalisation sector of the South African equity market
  • Benchmark Index: FTSE/JSE Africa Top 40 Index
  • Consists of the top 40 largest companies listed on the JSE by investable market capitalisation
  • The most commonly used index as an overall benchmark for the JSE.
  • Consists of a small fraction of all securities listed on the JSE on the basis that movements in these share prices can be said to represent the movement of the market as a whole

Prescient Property Equity Fund

Classification: South African - Real Estate - General

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: Efficient and cost-effective exposure to listed property as represented by the FTSE/JSE SA Listed Property Index.
  • Benchmark: FTSE/JSE SA Listed Property Index
  • Consists of the top 20 liquid companies, by full market cap, in the Real Estate Industry with a primary listing on the JSE.
  • Tracking error to the index is minimised.

Prescient Core Global Equity Feeder Fund

Classification: Global - Equity General

Risk Factor Aggressive

Fund Summary

  • Exposure: Global Equities
  • Benchmark: Aims to deliver returns close to the MSCI World Index at low cost.
  • Structured similarly to the MSCI World Index, it is not a tracker fund and can out / underperform the MSCI World Index by small amounts over time.
  • This Fund is suitable to investors with a long-term investment horizon

PRESCIENT GLOBAL

WE ARE A MULTINATIONAL BUSINESS.

South Africa

  • South Africa
  • China
  • Ireland

Enquiries

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