If you select the default option, your money is invested in the Satrix Life Time Investment Option for Tax-free Investments. This option invests in the Satrix Balanced Index Fund and the Satrix Low Equity Balanced Index Fund. We manage the allocation to these funds on your behalf. If the investment term is longer than 10 years, all funds are initially invested in the Satrix Balanced Index Fund. This fund is moderately aggressive and can have a fair amount of fluctuations in short-term returns, in anticipation of higher real return over the long-term. If the remaining expected investment term is less than 10 years, the funds are gradually switched to the Satrix Low Equity Balanced Index Fund, a fund with more stable investment returns. Both of these funds are passively managed funds, tracking a basket of indices.

If you prefer to select your own funds, we offer a range of quality investment funds. You can choose up to five funds at first, and can switch between these funds at any time. The first four switches in any plan year are free. You can get more information on the available funds in their fund fact sheets.

In the Satrix Life Time Investment Option for Tax-free Investments we manage your investment on your behalf. This option invests in the Satrix Balanced Index Fund and the Satrix Low Equity Balanced Index Fund. Both of these funds are passively managed funds, tracking a basket of indices. The allocation to these funds is based on the expected investment term.

If the expected investment term is longer than 10 years, all funds are invested in the Satrix Balanced Index Fund. This fund is moderately aggressive and can have a fair amount of fluctuations in short-term returns, in anticipation of higher real return over the long-term.

From ten years before the end of your expected investment term, 2.5% of your investment is switched to the Satrix Low Equity Balanced Index Fund every quarter, a fund with more stable investment returns.

If your expected investment term at the start of the plan is shorter than 10 years, your investment is allocated to both the funds. For example, if your expected investment term is 5 years, 50% of your investment will be allocated to each of the funds.

It is important that you adjust your plan if your expected investment term changes to ensure that your investment is allocated appropriately. Contact the Sanlam Client Care Centre on (021)916-5000 or 0860 726 526(SANLAM) or send an e-mail to life@sanlam.co.za.

Vertical axis = Fund allocation
Horizontal axis = Remaining term

If you selected your own funds, you can switch your investment funds at any time. You have four free switches a plan year. Thereafter a switching fee of R 810 will be charged per switch.

If you selected the default investment option, your funds are invested in the Satrix Lifetime Investment Option for Tax-free Investments. We manage your investment on your behalf. We will gradually switch your funds to a more stable investment. All of these switches are free.

We invest your full payment in the underlying investment funds by buying units in each of these funds. The unit prices of the investment funds are not guaranteed, and may increase or decrease over time.

The total fund value of the plan is equal to the sum of the values of the underlying investment funds. The fund value for each investment fund is equal to the number of units you have in the fund multiplied by the unit price at the calculation date.

Investment funds can invest in multiple asset classes or a single asset class. For funds with a single asset class, the fund mandate describes the asset class (e.g. equity, cash or property). For funds with multiple asset classes, the fund mandate describes the investment risk profile (e.g. cautious, moderate or aggressive):

CONSERVATIVE: Conservative investments provide modest returns with a high degree of capital security. A typical portfolio will consist primarily of income orientated asset classes such as cash, bonds and property, with very little exposure to equities. The expected return may be close to inflation. There is therefore a risk that the real value of an investment may reduce over time, after taking fees and taxes into consideration.

CAUTIOUS: Cautious investments provide stable returns with limited risk of capital loss. A typical portfolio will consist primarily of income orientated asset classes such as cash, bonds and property, with limited exposure to equities.

MODERATE: Moderate investments should generate real returns by outperforming inflation over the longer term, but will at times experience short-term negative returns. A typical portfolio is diversified over all major asset classes to provide a balance between risk and return. There is a moderate risk of capital losses in the short term.

MODERATELY AGGRESSIVE: Moderately aggressive investments can have a fair amount of fluctuations in the short-term returns, in anticipation of higher real returns over the long -term. A typical portfolio is diversified over all major asset classes, with a bias towards equities to create real capital growth over the long term. There is a substantial risk of capital losses in the short -term.

AGGRESSIVE: Aggressive investments aims to maximise real return over the long term, but may experience severe short-term negative returns. A typical portfolio is diversified over all major asset classes, with a strong bias towards equities in order to significantly outperform inflation over the long term. There is a significant risk of capital losses in the short term.

Multi-asset class funds offer exposure to various asset classes including cash, equity, bonds and property. In a passively managed multi-asset class fund each underlying asset class tracks the return of its respective index. For example, in the SATRIX Balanced Index Fund the property exposure is managed to deliver the performance of the FTSE/JSE SA Listed Property Index (J253). The composite index simply combines the underlying indices, each with a specified weight.

A passive or index-tracking fund is used to follow the performance of a specified underlying index as closely as possible. An index is a grouping of shares or other securities. Indices can be constructed to represent the overall market or a specific sector or theme. This makes it possible for individual investors to obtain the performance of an index.

Satrix funds are managed by full replication, which means the fund will hold exactly the same underlying securities as the index, in exactly the same weights. Any changes that are applied to the index will also be applied to the index-tracking fund.

Passive management is an investment strategy based on tracking an underlying index, with the aim of delivering performance as close to that of the index as possible. An index-tracking fund is therefore constructed to match the specified index.

Actively managed funds are constructed to differ from the index that is used as their benchmark. Following rigorous company analysis, active managers make specific investment decisions with the aim of constructing a fund that outperforms the relevant benchmark. The outcome of these investment decisions will determine whether the active fund performs better or worse than the index.

The fees associated with active management are higher than those associated with passive management.