Current Price
As of Oct 9, 2024
$18.1989 CAD
$0.1399 CAD | 0.77%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
4 Star Rating
Out of 1483 Funds
CIFSC category
Global Equity

Risk profile

Low to medium

MER
As of Jun 30, 2024
2.12%
Key reasons to invest in Sun Life MFS Low Volatility Global Equity Fund
  • An actively managed global equity fund with a focus on stable, less volatile companies
  • Invests in attractively valued, high-quality companies in developed markets
  • Looks for underestimated businesses, with value that may be unlocked from improving conditions
  • Applies a long-term, research-driven approach, focused on picking stocks across full market cycles
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      Feb 11, 2016
    • Benchmark
      MSCI AC World C$
    • Management fee
      1.75%
    • Fund assets
      As of Sep 30, 2024
      $91.4M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Jul 31, 2024
      108
    • Distribution frequency
      Annually
    • Min initial investment
      $500
    • Min additional investment
      $50
    Fund codes
    ISCSUN 1103DSCSUN 1203LSCSUN 1303
    Performance

    Investment growth

    Sep 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 Sep 30, 2024
    Fund %
    1 mth3 mth6 mth1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yrSince inception
    Fund %0.27.39.525.39.98.58.3

    Calendar returns

    As of Sep 30, 2024
    Fund %
    • **For the period February 11 to December 31.
    YTD20232022202120202019201820172016*20152014
    Fund %18.79.1-3.214.12.512.44.78.95.8
    • **For the period February 11 to December 31.

    Risk & Statistics

    As of Sep 30, 2024
    • Risk measures (3 years)
      Funds
    • Standard deviation
      8.88
    • Alpha
      2.05
    • Beta
      0.61
    • R ²
      75.02
    • Upside capture
      73
    • Downside capture
      57
    • Sharpe Ratio %
      0.74

    Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

    As of Aug 31, 2024
    1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yr
    Morningstarᵀᴹ rating

    5 Star Rating
    3 Star Rating

    Quartile (within category)213not available
    # of funds in category17571483623623

      Portfolio analysis

      Overall allocation

      As of Jul 31, 2024
      Asset allocation%
      swatch
      U.S. equity55.1
      International equity36.5
      Canadian equity5.9
      Cash1.6
      Emg markets equity0.8
      Other0.1
      Geographic allocation%
      swatch
      United States56.1
      Japan10.7
      Canada6.0
      Singapore5.2
      Switzerland4.2
      Thailand3.0
      South Korea2.8
      United Kingdom2.8
      Philippines2.3
      Netherlands1.7
      Other5.3

        Equity allocation

        As of Jul 31, 2024
        Sector allocation*%
        swatch
        Information technology18.4
        Financials17.2
        Health care16.7
        Industrials10.3
        Consumer staples10.1
        Telecommunication services10.0
        Utilities6.8
        Consumer discretionary6.8
        Materials2.1
        Energy0.9
        Real Estate0.6
        Market capitalization%
        swatch
        Giant29.2
        Large44.2
        Medium25.2
        Small1.5
        Micro0.0
        • *Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

        Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

        As of Aug 31, 2024

        Equity style

        value
        blend
        growth
        large
        mid
        small
        Large blend

          Holdings

          Top ten holdings

          As of Jul 31, 2024
          HoldingsPercentage%
          McKesson Corp3.2
          DBS Group Holdings Ltd2.7
          Colgate-Palmolive Co2.6
          Microsoft Corp2.4
          Constellation Software Inc2.3
          Johnson & Johnson2.1
          Eli Lilly and Co1.9
          Roche Holding AG1.9
          JPMorgan Chase & Co1.8
          Republic Services Inc1.8
            • 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.

            Documents

            Notes and disclosures

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

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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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