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Advice fee

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

Total Expense Ratio (TER)

This is the percentage of the value of the financial product that was incurred as expenses relating to the administration of the financial product. A higher TER does not necessarily imply a poor return, nor does a low TER imply a good return. The current TER may not necessarily be an accurate indication of future TERs.

Transaction Cost (TC)

This is the percentage of the value of the financial product that was incurred as costs relating to the buying and selling of the assets underlying the financial product. Transaction Costs are a necessary cost in administering the financial product and impacts financial product returns. It should not be considered in isolation as returns may be impacted by many other factors over time including market returns, the type of financial product, the investment decisions of the investment manager and the TER.

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.

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The FTSE/JSE SA Listed Property Index (SAPY) achieved a total return of -2.2% in Q2’18, again underperforming other domestic asset classes such as cash and equities, as measured by the FTSE/JSE Shareholder Weighted Index (SWIX), which returned 2.08% for the quarter. Year to date (YTD), the SAPY has materially underperformed with a return of -21.4% versus -4.8% for general equities.

The best performing shares in the SAPY for the quarter included the likes of Greenbay, Fortress B and Resilient, with this grouping returning a total of 25-35% for the quarter, albeit from very depressed levels. Therefore, YTD, for example, this grouping is actually still the three worst performing SAPY shares – down 45-60%, even after their second-quarter rebound. The only other two shares that had a positive total return over the last three months were Sirius Real Estate and NEPI Rockcastle, which returned 10% and 6% respectively.

The worst performing shares in the quarter included Arrowhead, Attacq and SA Corporate, which returned a negative 10-15%.

Performance and portfolio changes

The current quarter was again very quiet on the corporate action front.

With the June 2018 FTSE/JSE SAPY rebalance, there were no additions or deletions to the index, but the weightings of Growthpoint and Redefine increased while Resilient and Fortress A decreased in the SAPY Index. The one-way turnover was somewhat higher than before at 3.2%.

Your fund performed in line with the SAPY benchmark. The fund experienced some positive cash drag due to the index being in the red over the last three months.

Outlook

Following the weak H1’18 returns, the SAPY has derated from a 6.8% clean forward yield at end Q4’17, to an attractive 8.1% trailing income yield, and about an 8.6% clean forward yield. The forward yield is a slight premium to the SA long-bond yield of 8.7%, which itself derated in Q2’18 as Ramaphoria faded, and amid general emerging market weakness on account of an impending trade war.

We consider these levels to be more attractive again, in absolute terms, and certainly relative to SA bonds and SA cash. With the SAPY, where investors achieve growth in dividends (unlike cash and bonds) of at least CPI in the long run (4-6% p.a.), the current price levels and entry level make for a total medium to long-term expected return of 12.5-14.5% p.a.