Current Price
As of Dec 20, 2024
$11.7288 CAD
$0.0486 CAD | 0.42%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
2 Star Rating
Out of 797 Funds
CIFSC category
Global Fixed Income Balanced

Risk profile

Low

MER
As of Dec 31, 2023
2.37%
Key reasons to invest in Sun GIF Solutions Sun Life Granite Conservative Investment Series A
  • An actively managed portfolio diversified by a broad range of asset classes, geographies, investment styles and managers
  • Designed for income and capital growth, by investing in a strategic mix of 65% fixed income and 35% equity, with an emphasis towards income
  • Tactical adjustments allow the portfolio manager to adapt to changing market conditions
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      May 4, 2015
    • Benchmark
      Blended benchmark
    • Management fee
      1.80%
    • Fund assets
      As of Nov 30, 2024
      $336.3M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Sep 30, 2024
      32
    • Min initial investment
      $500
    • Min additional investment
      $100
    Fund codes
    FELSLF SI133DSCSLF SI233LSCSLF SI333CBSLF SI733
    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 segregated fund or returns on investment in any segregated fund.

    Compound returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
    1 mth3 mth6 mth1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yrSince inception
    Fund %2.12.86.912.40.51.32.61.8

    Calendar returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %9.15.5-13.02.04.68.0-2.64.31.74.27.2

      Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

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

      1 Star Rating
      1 Star Rating
      2 Star Rating
      Quartile (within category)2444
      # of funds in category874797329329
        • Underlying fund 'Sun Life Granite Conservative Portfolio' performance is displayed for a time frame prior to May 04,2015
        Portfolio analysis

        Overall allocation

        As of Oct 31, 2024
        Asset allocation%
        swatch
        Fixed income51.9
        U.S. equity12.3
        International equity10.9
        Other10.4
        Canadian equity7.8
        Cash5.7
        Emg markets equity1.0
        Geographic allocation%
        swatch
        Canada41.8
        United States35.0
        United Kingdom2.6
        India1.5
        Japan1.5
        France1.2
        China1.1
        Taiwan1.1
        Switzerland0.8
        Brazil0.8
        Other12.7

          Equity allocation

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          Sector allocation*%
          swatch
          Financials18.7
          Information technology17.5
          Industrials14.9
          Consumer discretionary7.4
          Real Estate7.0
          Utilities6.2
          Health care6.0
          Materials5.8
          Energy5.7
          Consumer staples5.6
          Telecommunication services5.3
          • Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

          Fixed income allocation

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          Fixed income allocation%
          swatch
          Government29.3
          Corporate Bond29.0
          Government28.2
          Corporate Bond27.1
          Government-Related19.5
          Government-Related17.5
          Future/Forward7.1
          Agency Mortgage-Backed6.0
          Cash & Equivalents5.9
          Agency Mortgage-Backed5.7
          Cash & Equivalents5.2
          Asset-Backed4.8
          Asset-Backed4.5
          Commercial Mortgage-Backed1.8
          Commercial Mortgage-Backed1.7
          Preferred Stock1.0
          Bank Loan1.0
          Preferred Stock1.0
          Bank Loan1.0
          Future/Forward0.6
          Non-agency Residential Mortgage-Backed0.5
          Non-agency Residential Mortgage-Backed0.4
          Covered Bond0.3
          Covered Bond0.3
          Convertible0.3
          Convertible0.3
          Municipal Taxable0.0
          Municipal Taxable0.0
          Municipal Tax-Exempt0.0
          Option/Warrant0.0
          Swap0.0
          Credit mix%
          swatch
          AAA17.9
          AA33.5
          A11.5
          BBB19.9
          BB8.0
          B3.3
          Below B0.8
          Not Rated5.0

          Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

          As of Nov 30, 2024

          Equity style

          value
          blend
          growth
          large
          mid
          small
          Large blend

          Fixed income characteristics

          As of Oct 31, 2024

          • Yield To Maturity
            4.72%
          • Effective duration (years)
            6.76
          • Average maturity (years)
            11.73
          • Average credit quality
            A
          • Sun GIF Solutions Sun Life Granite Conservative Investment Series A invests directly in units of the Sun Life Granite Conservative Portfolio (the "underlying fund"). The portfolio analysis section is representative of the underlying Fund.
          Holdings

          Top ten holdings

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          HoldingsPercentage%
          Sun Life Granite Conservative Port I99.6
          Sun Life US Core Fixed Inc I12.3
          Sun Life BlackRock Cdn Univ Bond10.9
          Sunlife Granite Tactical Completion Fd I8.5
          iShares Core S&P 500 ETF5.6
          RBC Emerging Markets Bd (CAD Hedged) O5.4
          Sun Life Real Assets Private Pool I5.0
          Sun Life BlackRock Cdn Composite Equity3.4
          Sun Life Wellington Oppc FxdInc PrivPl I3.2
          Sun Life Schroder Emerging Markets I3.0
          • The holdings section is representative of the underlying Fund.
          • Cash and cash equivalents are not shown.
          Management & Commentary

          Management

          Management Company :

          SLGI Asset Management Inc.

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          The Multi-Asset Solutions Team at Sun Life Global Investments is devoted to fund manager selection, oversight, and building managed solutions for Canadian investors – 100% of their time.

          Documents

          Notes and disclosures

          • ^Management Expense Ratio is an estimate in the first year.

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

            Any amount allocated to a segregated fund is invested at the risk of the contract owner and may increase or decrease in value

            Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada is the issuer of guaranteed insurance contracts, including Accumulation Annuities (Insurance GICs), Payout Annuities, and Individual Variable Insurance Contracts (Sun Life GIFs).

            Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, a member of the Sun Life Financial group of companies, is the issuer of Sun Life GIFs individual variable annuity contracts. A description of the key features of this contract is contained in the information folder.

            Subject to any applicable death benefit and maturity guarantees, any part of the premium or other amount that is allocated to a segregated fund is invested at the risk of the contract owner and may increase or decrease in value according to fluctuations in the market value of the assets of the segregated fund.

            Please refer to sunlifegifs.com for additional information.

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            Morningstar star ratings are an objective, quantitative measure of a fund's historical risk-adjusted performance relative to other funds in its category, and are calculated from a fund's 3, 5, and 10-year returns measured against 91-day Treasury bill and peer group returns. The top 10% of the funds in a category earn five stars; the next 22.5% four stars; the following 35% three stars; the next 22.5% two stars, and the bottom 10% one star. The Overall Rating is a weighted combination of the 3, 5, and 10-year ratings. Only funds with at least a three-year track record are considered, and ratings are calculated only for categories with at least 20 funds.

            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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