Traditional Investing (when you invest via a Financial Adviser or other)

Retail Class (%)

Advice fee | Any advice fee is negotiable between the client and their financial advisor. An annual advice fee negotiated is paid via a repurchase of units from the investor.

The portfolio manager may borrow up to 10% of the market value of the portfolio to bridge insufficient liquidity. This fund is also available via certain LISPS (Linked Investment Service Providers), which levy their own fees.

Total Expense Ratio (TER) | The Total Expense Ratio (TER) is the charges incurred by the portfolio, for the payment of services rendered in the administration of the CIS. The TER is expressed as a percentage of the daily NAV of the CIS and calculated over a period of 1 year. The TER is calculated from 01 July 2016 to 30 June 2017. A higher TER does not imply a poor return nor does a low TER imply a good return.

The Transaction Cost (TC) is the cost incurred by the portfolio in the buying and selling of underlying assets. This is expressed as a percentage of the daily NAV of the CIS and calculated over a period of 1 year. Obtain the costs of an investment prior to investing by using the EAC calculator provided at https://satrix.co.za/products

When you invest online

Traditionally, investment advice come with a fee of up to 1%. But our smart online system is working to make investing cheaper and more profitable for you and hence no initial or annual advice fees will be charged. The management fee you do pay is based on the fund selected and calculated on your total contributions, and then applied to the overall value of your portfolio.

YOUR INVESTMENT WILL NOT CHARGE THE FOLLOWING FEES

• No initial account set-up fees – usually charged at 2%.
• No switching fees
• No exit fees
• No account changes fees
• No rebalancing fees
• No commissions
• No debit order fees
• No fund manager rebates

SO YOU’RE ONLY CHARGED THE RELEVANT FUND-MANAGEMENT FEE

Satrix is a South African ETF pioneer and caused a shake-up in the SA investment space when it introduced the country to ETFs in 2000 by launching the first ETF listed on the JSE. The Satrix TOP 40 ETF needs no introduction and serves as the go-to broad market exposure investment option for professional and amateur investors alike. So transformative have the Satrix product set and access options been to South Africans that people often (erroneously) refer to all index trackers as Satrix.

Since 2000 Satrix has listed 12 more ETFs. In fact, in 2017 alone it added a property ETF, an inflation-linked bond ETF, a Quality factor ETF and three offshore ETFs to its range. You can now build a completely diversified portfolio of local asset classes using only low-cost Satrix ETFs.

To make investing ever easier and cheaper (and online) we started working with the ground-breaking team at EasyEquities. The low-cost, no-minimum, online platform they had developed, which allowed fractional share trading, is perfect for our clients too. In no time at all we had our very own www.SatrixNOW.co.za platform up and running, which allows you to do everything online with no annual fees and extremely low trading costs. With SatrixNOW there really are no excuses as you can invest as little as R10.

Macro review

Political uncertainty remained an important feature globally, as US President Donald Trump dismissed FBI director James Comey, which raised doubts over the ability of the administration to push its fiscally expansive policies. In Europe, French and Italian political uncertainty faded, as the moderate Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential and later parliamentary elections convincingly, while the possibility of an early election in Italy was ruled out.

South Africa started the last quarter on the wrong foot with the unexpected Cabinet reshuffle at the end of March. This markedly increased political uncertainty, and coupled with credit downgrades, weighed heavily on domestic confidence and subsequent consumer sentiment. As such, a business cycle recovery will likely be protracted until such time that confidence recovers. To add insult to injury, firstquarter GDP posted a dismal -0.7%, plunging the economy into a technical recession. Growth expectations for 2017 is seen at 0.75% (down from about 1.5% at the start of the year), with a recovery to 1.25% in 2018, mostly driven by a rebound in household demand.

Global and local market review

Global equity markets advanced in the second quarter of 2017 with the MSCI World Index returning 4.2% in US dollars, and 12% year-to-date. A strong corporate earnings season and generally positive economic data supported gains, while political risk eased in Europe. Emerging market (EM) equities, however, outperformed their developed world counterparts, returning 18.2% during the first half of 2017. This streak of outperformance is now six months long, as this region continues to benefit from a supportive global backdrop. Top performers in EM were Poland (+33%), Turkey (+29%) and South Korea (+28%), while Russia experienced a sharp decline (-15%) amid a fall in Brent crude prices. In terms of global style performance, Growth (+7.0%), Quality (+5.1%) and Price Momentum (+5.5%) have been the clear outperformers since the start of the year.

Year to date, South African equities (SWIX) delivered a mild 3.3%, slightly underperforming bonds (+4.0%) and cash (+3.7%) as expectations of a delayed economic recovery and political uncertainty weighed on equities. Within equities we saw divergent sector performances, as Industrials added 9.0%, while Resources fell 4.6% and Financials added 1.1% over the first half of 2017.

Over the last three months, the SWIX return was flat. In terms of major contributions to this return, Media (Naspers) was the star performer, as Tencent continued to improve its competitive position and market share, although June saw profit-taking in the global tech sector. Some noticeable contributions also came from Steinhoff (+4.5%), which outperformed as it announced the proposed listing of its SA retail assets. Aspen (+4.5%) also bounced back, driven by a rally in the euro/US dollar exchange rate. Materials (-6.7%) detracted the most, given weaker precious metal prices, exacerbated by the introduction of the new mining charter. This was followed by Discretionary Retailers (-9.3%), out of favour, as business/consumer confidence nosedived. Telecoms also contributed negatively, as MTN (-6.5%) fell again, partly driven by oil prices declining (Nigeria) over the quarter.

Portfolio performance, attribution and strategy

Dividend yield, as well as other Value measures experienced a fantastic performance during the 2016 calendar year, shedding a forgettable Value cycle since 2012. Thus far in 2017, the yield factor has struggled to get out of the blocks despite the continuing high levels of economic and policy uncertainty typically being a fertile environment for this factor. While it appears that the Value style turnaround from 2016 has somewhat stalled in line with protracted domestic economic recovery, this portfolio strategy is also positioned with a meaningful overweight in Resource counters, in line with the attractive relative dividend yields in the sector. With industrial metal prices down in the second quarter, and iron ore prices falling heavily on concern of weaker demand from China and elevated stockpiles in the country, South African Resources struggled, contributing negatively to the fund’s underperformance. Exposure to Exxaro (EXX), Sibanye Gold (SGL) and African Rainbow Minerals (ARI) played a strong role here. The concentrated nature of our market index proxies and its Naspers exposure also largely contributed to the relative underperformance; this index holds no Naspers exposure. Holdings in Liberty Holdings (LBH), Vodacom (VOD) and Barclays Group (BGA) added to the index’s relative performance. The FTSE/JSE Dividend Plus Index had no changes during the prior quarter.