Current Price
As of Nov 7, 2024
$15.2591 CAD
$0.0029 CAD | 0.02%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
3 Star Rating
Out of 1368 Funds
CIFSC category
Global Neutral Balanced

Risk profile

Low to medium

MER
As of Dec 31, 2023
2.48%
Key reasons to invest in Sun Protect GIF Sun Life MFS Global Total Return F
  • An actively managed global balanced fund seeking a blend of growth and income
  • A typical mix of 60% equities and 40% fixed income, designed to remove market timing
  • Takes a value-based approach, with a tilt to global large-cap stocks
  • Global fixed income exposure is focused on investment grade corporate bonds
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      May 4, 2015
    • Benchmark
      Blended benchmark
    • Management fee
      0.85%
    • Fund assets
      As of Oct 31, 2024
      $263.2M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Sep 30, 2024
      785
    • Min initial investment
      $1,000
    • Min additional investment
      $500
    Fund codes
    F ClassSLF SS645
    Performance

    Investment growth

    Oct 31, 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 Oct 31, 2024
    Fund %
    1 mth3 mth6 mth1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yrSince inception
    Fund %-0.20.86.417.43.84.55.34.4

    Calendar returns

    As of Oct 31, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %9.76.7-6.46.64.613.2-3.46.41.99.69.8

      Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

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

      3 Star Rating
      3 Star Rating
      3 Star Rating
      Quartile (within category)4232
      # of funds in category15411368665665
        • Underlying fund 'Sun Life MFS Global Total Return Fund Series A' performance is displayed for a time frame prior to May 04,2015
        Portfolio analysis

        Overall allocation

        As of Aug 31, 2024
        Asset allocation%
        swatch
        Fixed income36.6
        U.S. equity31.1
        International equity25.8
        Cash3.3
        Canadian equity1.4
        Other1.4
        Emg markets equity0.5
        Geographic allocation%
        swatch
        United States48.2
        United Kingdom7.9
        Japan7.6
        France5.4
        Switzerland4.4
        Canada3.5
        Germany3.4
        South Korea2.8
        Spain2.7
        Italy2.7
        Other11.3

          Equity allocation

          As of Aug 31, 2024
          Sector allocation*%
          swatch
          Financials23.2
          Industrials14.3
          Health care13.2
          Consumer staples11.6
          Information technology9.1
          Energy8.3
          Telecommunication services5.9
          Utilities4.8
          Consumer discretionary4.7
          Materials4.5
          Real Estate0.6
          • Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).

          Fixed income allocation

          As of Aug 31, 2024
          Fixed income allocation%
          swatch
          Government49.3
          Corporate Bond29.1
          Agency Mortgage-Backed10.5
          Government-Related3.6
          Asset-Backed3.1
          Non-agency Residential Mortgage-Backed1.6
          Commercial Mortgage-Backed1.5
          Municipal Taxable1.1
          Cash & Equivalents0.2
          Convertible0.1
          Bank Loan0.0
          Covered Bond0.0
          Future/Forward0.0
          Municipal Tax-Exempt0.0
          Option/Warrant0.0
          Preferred Stock0.0
          Swap0.0
          Credit mix%
          swatch
          AAA13.3
          AA33.8
          A22.9
          BBB23.0
          BB0.8
          B0.0
          Below B0.0
          Not Rated6.2

          Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

          As of Oct 31, 2024

          Equity style

          value
          blend
          growth
          large
          mid
          small
          Large value

          Fixed income characteristics

          As of Aug 31, 2024

          • Yield To Maturity
            3.93%
          • Effective duration (years)
            6.49
          • Average maturity (years)
            11.02
          • Average credit quality
            A
          • Sun Protect GIF Sun Life MFS Global Total Return F invests directly in units of the Sun Life MFS Global Total Return Fund Series A (the "underlying fund"). The portfolio analysis section is representative of the underlying Fund.
          Holdings

          Top ten holdings

          As of Aug 31, 2024
          HoldingsPercentage%
          Canada (Government of)1.6
          Canada (Government of)1.4
          Roche Holding AG1.2
          United States Treasury Notes 2.75%1.2
          Johnson & Johnson1.1
          UBS Group AG1.1
          The Cigna Group1.1
          Japan (Government Of) 2.4%1.0
          Italy (Republic Of) 4.1%1.0
          United States Treasury Notes 3.75%1.0
          • 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.

          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.

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