Current Price
As of Dec 27, 2024
$17.6953 CAD
-$0.0444 CAD | -0.25%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
2 Star Rating
Out of 530 Funds
CIFSC category
Canadian Focused Equity

Risk profile

Low to medium

MER
As of Dec 31, 2023
3.10%
Key reasons to invest in Sun GIF Solutions Sun Life MFS Cdn Equity Estate Series A
  • A core, Canadian-focused equity fund designed for long-term capital growth
  • Invests in high quality, attractively valued businesses with above average growth prospects
  • Adds exposure to U.S. and international stocks for diversification outside of Canada’s narrow market
  • Applies a long-term, research-driven approach, focused on picking stocks across full market cycles
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      May 4, 2015
    • Benchmark
      Blended benchmark
    • Management fee
      1.90%
    • Fund assets
      As of Nov 30, 2024
      $85.0M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Sep 30, 2024
      57
    • Min initial investment
      $500
    • Min additional investment
      $100
    Fund codes
    FELSLF SE141DSCSLF SE241LSCSLF SE341CBSLF SE741
    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 %6.69.415.225.96.28.07.96.5

    Calendar returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %21.38.0-10.416.77.519.2-6.49.66.31.511.1

      Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

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

      1 Star Rating
      2 Star Rating
      3 Star Rating
      Quartile (within category)3442
      # of funds in category596530305305
        • Underlying fund 'Sun Life MFS Cdn Equity Growth Fund' performance is displayed for a time frame prior to May 04,2015
        Portfolio analysis

        Overall allocation

        As of Oct 31, 2024
        Asset allocation%
        swatch
        Canadian equity99.0
        Cash0.9
        Other0.1
        Geographic allocation%
        swatch
        Canada100.0

          Equity allocation

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          Sector allocation*%
          swatch
          Financials30.9
          Industrials17.8
          Energy13.7
          Information technology11.0
          Materials9.6
          Consumer discretionary7.0
          Consumer staples3.4
          Telecommunication services2.3
          Real Estate2.3
          Utilities2.0
          Health care0.0
          Market capitalization%
          swatch
          Giant51.3
          Large31.0
          Medium15.4
          Small2.3
          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

          • Sun GIF Solutions Sun Life MFS Cdn Equity Estate Series A invests directly in units of the Sun Life MFS Cdn Equity Growth Fund (the "underlying fund"). The portfolio analysis section is representative of the underlying Fund.
          Holdings

          Top ten holdings

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          HoldingsPercentage%
          Royal Bank of Canada8.9
          The Toronto-Dominion Bank5.8
          Enbridge Inc4.2
          Shopify Inc Registered Shs -A- Subord Vtg4.2
          Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd4.2
          Constellation Software Inc4.0
          Canadian Natural Resources Ltd4.0
          Bank of Montreal3.9
          Brookfield Corp Registered Shs -A- Limited Vtg3.5
          Suncor Energy Inc3.3
          • 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.

          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

          • ^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.

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

            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.

            For more details on the calculation of Morningstar star ratings or quartile rankings, please see www.morningstar.ca.

            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.

            The information contained in this fund page/profile is designed to provide you with general information related to the fund and investment alternatives and strategies and is not intended to be comprehensive investment advice applicable to individual circumstances. We strongly recommend that investors consult with a financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions.

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