Current Price
As of Apr 26, 2024
$9.2217 CAD
$0.0316 CAD | 0.34%
Overall Morningstar™ rating
1 Star Rating
Out of 498 Funds
CIFSC category
Canadian Fixed Income

Risk profile

Low

MER
As of Dec 31, 2022
2.80%
Key reasons to invest in Sun GIF Solutions Strategic Income Income Series A
  • A core Canadian fixed income fund that focuses on secure, investment-grade fixed income investments
  • Access to public fixed income investments (approximately 90%), consisting mainly of government bonds
  • Access to private assets, including private fixed income and commercial mortgages (approximately 10%)
  • Seeks to preserve capital and generate sustainable income
    Fund essentials

    • Inception date
      May 4, 2015
    • Benchmark
      BofAML Canada Broad Market TR CAD
    • Management fee
      1.40%
    • Fund assets
      As of Mar 31, 2024
      $325.5M
    • Number of holdings
      As of Mar 31, 2024
      4
    • Min initial investment
      $25,000
    • Min additional investment
      $500
    Fund codes
    FELSLF SP167DSCSLF SP267LSCSLF SP367CBSLF SP767
    Performance

    Investment growth

    Mar 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 Mar 31, 2024
    Fund %
    1 mth3 mth6 mth1 yr3 yr5 yr10 yrSince inception
    Fund %0.3-2.17.41.3-3.9-1.9-0.5

    Calendar returns

    As of Mar 31, 2024
    Fund %
      YTD2023202220212020201920182017201620152014
      Fund %-2.16.1-16.7-5.08.07.1-1.12.51.7-2.6

      Morningstar Ratingᵀᴹ and Quartile rankings

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

      1 Star Rating
      1 Star Rating

      Quartile (within category)244not available
      # of funds in category505498265265
          Portfolio analysis

          Overall allocation

          As of Feb 29, 2024
          Asset allocation%
          swatch
          Other60.5
          Fixed income38.0
          Cash1.6
          Geographic allocation%
          swatch
          Canada85.4
          United States13.3
          France1.3

            Fixed income allocation

            As of Feb 29, 2024
            Fixed income allocation%
            swatch
            Government-Related54.3
            Corporate Bond30.7
            Government12.1
            Cash & Equivalents2.3
            Agency Mortgage-Backed0.5
            Asset-Backed0.0
            Bank Loan0.0
            Commercial Mortgage-Backed0.0
            Convertible0.0
            Covered Bond0.0
            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
            AAA0.0
            AA0.0
            A0.0
            BBB0.0
            BB0.0
            B0.0
            Below B0.0
            Not Rated100.0

            Morningstar Style Boxᵀᴹ

            Data not available at this time.

            Fixed income characteristics

            As of Feb 29, 2024

            • Yield To Maturity
              4.84%
            • Effective duration (years)
              9.87
            • Average maturity (years)
              16.31
            • Average credit quality
              A
              Holdings

              Top ten holdings

              As of Feb 29, 2024
              HoldingsPercentage%
              SLC Mgmt Core Plus Bond Seg Fund59.6
              SLC Mgmt Long Core Plus Bond Seg Fund39.9
                • Cash and cash equivalents are not shown.
                Management & Commentary

                Management

                Management Company :

                Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

                Sub-advisors

                Sun Life Capital Management (Canada) Inc.

                Based in Canada, SLC Management (SLC) is a global institutional asset manager, and part of the Sun Life group of companies. SLC offers institutional investors traditional, alternative, and yield-orientated investment solutions across public and private fixed income markets, as well as global real estate equity and debt.

                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.

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