Current Price
As of Dec 20, 2024
$9.2189 CAD
$0.0357 CAD | 0.39%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
1 Star Rating
Out of 503 Funds
CIFSC category
Canadian Fixed Income

Risk profile

Low

MER
As of Dec 31, 2023
2.60%
Key reasons to invest in Sun Lifetime Advantage GIF Sun Life BlackRock Cdn Univ Bond A
  • A lower cost, passive exposure to a universe of liquid Canadian investment grade bonds
  • A core part of the Canadian fixed income portion of a diversified investment portfolio
  • Seeks to preserve capital and generate income
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      May 4, 2015
    • Benchmark
      FTSE Canada Universe Bond Index
    • Management fee
      1.25%
    • Fund assets
      As of Nov 30, 2024
      $7.5M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Oct 31, 2024
      3
    • Min initial investment
      $25,000
    • Min additional investment
      $500
    Fund codes
    FELSLF AG127DSCSLF AG227LSCSLF AG327
    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 %1.51.95.25.8-2.3-2.0-0.7

    Calendar returns

    As of Nov 30, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %2.54.1-14.0-5.04.94.4-1.3-0.1-1.20.2

      Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

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

      1 Star Rating
      1 Star Rating

      Quartile (within category)444not available
      # of funds in category510503265265
          Portfolio analysis

          Overall allocation

          As of Oct 31, 2024
          Asset allocation%
          swatch
          Fixed income98.7
          Other1.2
          Cash0.1
          Geographic allocation%
          swatch
          Canada97.7
          Supranational1.0
          United States0.9
          Germany0.4
          Austria0.0

            Fixed income allocation

            As of Oct 31, 2024
            Fixed income allocation%
            swatch
            Government-Related44.8
            Government28.8
            Corporate Bond25.9
            Covered Bond0.3
            Asset-Backed0.2
            Cash & Equivalents0.1
            Agency Mortgage-Backed0.0
            Bank Loan0.0
            Commercial Mortgage-Backed0.0
            Convertible0.0
            Future/Forward0.0
            Municipal Taxable0.0
            Municipal Tax-Exempt0.0
            Non-agency Residential Mortgage-Backed0.0
            Option/Warrant0.0
            Preferred Stock0.0
            Swap0.0
            Credit mix%
            swatch
            AAA41.9
            AA32.9
            A14.0
            BBB10.9
            BB0.0
            B0.0
            Below B0.0
            Not Rated0.3

            Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

            Data not available at this time.

            Fixed income characteristics

            As of Oct 31, 2024

            • Yield To Maturity
              3.70%
            • Effective duration (years)
              7.29
            • Average maturity (years)
              10.20
            • Average credit quality
              AA
              Holdings

              Top ten holdings

              As of Oct 31, 2024
              HoldingsPercentage%
              Sun Life BlackRock Cdn Univ Bond99.7
                • Cash and cash equivalents are not shown.
                Management & Commentary

                Management

                Management Company :

                SLGI Asset Management Inc.

                Sub-advisors

                BlackRock Asset Management Canada Ltd.

                BlackRock is one of the largest investment managers in the world. With global reach and local presence, they bring their in-depth experience to Canadian equity investing.

                Documents

                Notes and disclosures

                • 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).

                  Effective May 9, 2016, the Sun Life Beutel Goodman Canadian Bond was renamed Sun Life Multi-Strategy Bond.

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

                  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).

                  Average credit quality gives a snapshot of the fund's overall credit quality. It is an average of each bond's credit rating, adjusted for its relative weighting in the fund. Morningstar, Inc. is not itself a Designated Rating Organization (DRO), nor does it issue a credit rating on the fund. A DRO's ratings can change from time-to-time.

                  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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