Current Price
As of Dec 6, 2024
$20.8549 CAD
$0.2120 CAD | 1.03%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
4 Star Rating
Out of 1505 Funds
CIFSC category
Global Equity

Risk profile

Medium

MER
As of Jun 30, 2024
2.15%
Key reasons to invest in Sun Life MFS Global Growth Fund
  • An actively managed global equity fund with a tilt to larger companies
  • Invests in high quality, sustainable businesses located anywhere in the world, including emerging markets
  • Looks for companies with above average growth and return potential – without overpaying
  • Applies a long-term, research-driven approach, focused on picking stocks across full market cycles
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      Sep 1, 2011
    • Benchmark
      MSCI AC World C$
    • Management fee
      1.80%
    • Fund assets
      As of Nov 30, 2024
      $2.0B
    • Number of holdings
      As of Sep 30, 2024
      75
    • Distribution frequency
      Monthly
    • Min initial investment
      $500
    • Min additional investment
      $50
    Fund codes
    ISCSUN 137DSCSUN 237LSCSUN 337
    Performance

    Investment growth

    Nov 30, 2024

    • Compound growth calculations are used only for the purpose of illustrating the effects of compound growth and are not intended to reflect the future value of any mutual fund or returns on investment in any mutual fund.

    Compound returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
    1 mth3 mth6 mth1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yrSince inception
    Fund %3.85.99.921.17.410.111.412.6

    Calendar returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %19.716.1-14.515.616.627.42.221.1-0.315.711.7

        Risk & Statistics

        As of Nov 30, 2024
        • Risk measures (3 years)
          Funds
        • Standard deviation
          13.67
        • Alpha
          -3.54
        • Beta
          1.05
        • R ²
          93.22
        • Upside capture
          95
        • Downside capture
          116
        • Sharpe Ratio %
          0.33

        Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

        As of Nov 30, 2024
        1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yr
        Morningstarᵀᴹ rating

        3 Star Rating
        3 Star Rating
        4 Star Rating
        Quartile (within category)3321
        # of funds in category17691505630630

          Portfolio analysis

          Overall allocation

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          Asset allocation%
          swatch
          U.S. equity68.7
          International equity23.3
          Canadian equity5.3
          Emg markets equity1.2
          Cash1.1
          Other0.4
          Geographic allocation%
          swatch
          United States69.8
          Canada5.4
          France4.8
          China3.8
          Taiwan3.6
          Japan2.6
          India2.0
          Switzerland2.0
          United Kingdom1.4
          South Korea1.4
          Other3.2

            Equity allocation

            As of Oct 31, 2024
            Sector allocation*%
            swatch
            Information technology28.5
            Financials15.2
            Industrials12.9
            Health care12.7
            Consumer discretionary9.6
            Telecommunication services8.5
            Consumer staples8.3
            Real Estate1.9
            Utilities1.4
            Materials1.1
            Energy0.0
            Market capitalization%
            swatch
            Giant36.4
            Large39.9
            Medium23.7
            Small0.0
            Micro0.0
            • *Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

            Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

            As of Nov 30, 2024

            Equity style

            value
            blend
            growth
            large
            mid
            small
            Large growth

              Holdings

              Top ten holdings

              As of Oct 31, 2024
              HoldingsPercentage%
              Microsoft Corp5.4
              Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd ADR3.6
              Visa Inc Class A3.4
              Accenture PLC Class A2.8
              NVIDIA Corp2.7
              Apple Inc2.7
              Alphabet Inc Class A2.6
              Tencent Holdings Ltd2.3
              Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd2.3
              Agilent Technologies Inc2.2
                • Cash and cash equivalents are not shown.
                Management & Commentary

                Management

                Management Company :

                SLGI Asset Management Inc.

                Sub-advisors

                MFS Investment Management Canada Limited

                Founded in 1924, Boston-based MFS brings nearly a century of active management experience to investors’ portfolios.

                Commentary

                 
                Quarterly fund commentary | Sun Life MFS Global Growth Fund
                This sub-advisor commentary explains the fund’s relative performance and the securities and sectors that impacted its returns. It also looks at how the fund is positioned given the manager’s economic and market outlook. New commentary is typically available 30 days after each quarter end.

                Documents

                Notes and disclosures

                  • Portfolio holdings are as at the date indicated and may change due to ongoing portfolio transactions of the investment funds.

                    Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the prospectus before investing. For periods greater than one year, the indicated rates of return are the historical annual compounded total returns as of the date indicated including changes in unit value and reinvestment of all distributions and do not take into account sales, redemption, distribution or optional charges or income taxes payable by any security holder that would have reduced returns. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

                    Ratings and/or ranking information is subject to change monthly.

                    Sun Life MFS McLean Budden Global Research Equity Fund merged into Sun Life MFS Global Growth Fund on November 16, 2012. The merger was not a material change for Sun Life MFS Global Growth Fund.

                    Morningstar is an independent organization that groups funds with generally similar investment objectives for comparison purposes and ranks them on a historical basis.

                    The Morningstar Rating™ for funds, or "star rating", is calculated for managed products (including mutual funds, variable annuity and variable life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and separate accounts) with at least a three-year history. Exchange-traded funds and open-ended mutual funds are considered a single population for comparative purposes. It is calculated based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a managed product's monthly excess performance, placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of products in each product category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars, and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Overall Morningstar Rating for a managed product is derived from a weighted average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five-, and 10-year (if applicable) Morningstar Rating metrics. The weights are: 100% three-year rating for 36-59 months of total returns, 60% five-year rating/40% three-year rating for 60-119 months of total returns, and 50% 10-year rating/30% five-year rating/20% three-year rating for 120 or more months of total returns. While the 10-year overall star rating formula seems to give the most weight to the 10-year period, the most recent three-year period actually has the greatest impact because it is included in all three rating periods.

                    Morningstar quartile rankings show how well a fund has performed compared to all other funds in its peer group. Each fund within a peer group is ranked based on its performance, and these rankings are broken into quarters or quartiles. Within a group, the top 25% (or quarter) of the funds are in the first quartile, the next 25% are in the second quartile, the next group in the third quartile, and the bottom 25% of funds with the poorest relative performance are in the fourth quartile. The point in which half the funds had better performance and half had worse performance is the median. If 100 funds are being compared, there would be four quartiles of twenty-five funds each. The median would be the fiftieth fund.

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                    The Morningstar Style Box™ reveals a fund's investment strategy. For equity funds the vertical axis shows the market capitalization of the stocks owned and the horizontal axis shows investment style (value, blend or growth). For fixed-income funds the vertical axis shows the average credit quality of the bonds owned, and the horizontal axis shows interest rate sensitivity as measured by a bond's duration (short, intermediate or long).

                    Morningstar Market Capitalization Breakdown Stocks are first divided into seven style zones based on their country of domicile: United States, Latin America, Canada, Europe, Japan, Asia ex-Japan, and Australia/New Zealand. Capitalization assignments are determined as follows: 1) For all stocks in a style zone, the market cap of each stock is converted into a common currency. The stocks in each style zone are ordered in descending order by size, and a cumulative capitalization as a percentage of total sample capitalization is calculated as each stock is added to the list. 2) The stock that causes cumulative capitalization to equal or exceed 40% of the style zone's total cap is the final one assigned to the giant-cap group. 3) The largest of the remaining stocks are assigned to the large-cap group until cumulative capitalization equals or exceeds 70% of the total capitalization of the style zone. 4) The largest of the remaining stocks are assigned to the mid-cap group until cumulative capitalization equals or exceeds 90% of the total capitalization of the style zone. 5) The largest of the remaining stocks are assigned to the small-cap group until cumulative capitalization equals or exceeds 97% of the total capitalization of the style zone. 6) The remaining stocks are assigned to the micro-cap group. The Market Capitalization Breakdown at a fund level is a breakdown of the capitalization assignments of the fund's equity holdings.

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