Ons produkte

Wrap Funds

Bastion manages a number of wrap funds at Sanlam Personal Portfolios ("SP 2 "), one of South Africa 's top Linked Investment Services Providers ("LISPs"). Bastion is responsible for the management of the investment, and reporting on the results thereof. Bastion has outsourced the administration of these funds to SP 2. The LISP is also responsible for the safekeeping of these investment securities.

A Wrap Fund can be described as "a combination or wrapping of a number of unit trusts in one single portfolio". By way of illustration, at the start of 2004 the Bastion Moderate Wrap Fund consisted of the following unit trusts:

The composition of such a wrap fund is constantly monitored and, if necessary, the necessary changes will be made to provide for new market conditions.

During the past few decades unit trusts have become very popular investment vehicles. Evidence of their popularity is that there are to-day roughly speaking as many unit trusts (500) as there are listed shares! Some of the reasons for their growth are as follows:

They have over the years produced excellent performances in comparison to many other investment alternatives.

• Thanks to their highly visible public profiles, asset management houses tend to appoint their top investment professionals to manage these trusts. This very action invariably improves the quality of the portfolios and the marketability of the funds.

• Unit trusts cater for a wide range of investors needs from risk averse Money Market Funds to much more risky Technology or Gold Funds.

• Very competitive cost structures

Given the multiplicity of unit trusts on offer, investors and intermediaries are faced with the vexing question: "Which of these trusts should I select?" It is Bastion's business to provide that answer, not only to-day, but on an ongoing basis. Bastion not only selects the funds with the most attractive prospects, but also the bedst combination or wrapping of funds.

A LISP company such as SP 2 offers Bastion the opportunity to have on one and the same platform access to the best funds (Unit Trusts) of the best portfolio managers at the best asset management houses.

Equity Funds

Bastion manages various Equity Funds of private clients at registered Stock Brokers. Bastion is responsible for the investment decisions and the reporting on the results of these decisions, but the administration of these funds has been outsourced to Stock Brokers.

We invest in listed local and international shares. This includes listed property investments. We are consciously not involved in unlisted properties.

The management of these funds is done in a highly professional manner, thanks to substantial investment experience gained since January 1980.

Investment decisions are based on thoroughly researched qualitative and quantitative information.

Bastion's doors are at all times open to investors and intermediaries. You are most welcome to contact the portfolio manager, Koos le Roux at 083 455 5318 on any investment-related matter.

We also regularly communicate with our clientele by means of investment reports on actual and expected investment performances, Facts Sheets about our funds, and comments on current investment points of interest.

The point of departure of our investment approach is the client's own personal investment targets and risk profile. These targets are determined in consultation with the client.

Bastion has managed the private equity funds since December 2003. Our performances up to now have been superb. If our biggest fund had been a listed unit trust, it would have been in the first quarter of the listed General Unit Trusts of the Society of Collective Investments.

Bastion's management fees for equity funds are very competitive: depending on the size of the funds, it varies between 0,50% & 1,25% per annum.

Institutional Business

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