SA’s Largest Multi-Manager, Investment Solutions, Goes Retail

Investment Solutions, SA’s largest multi-manager with over R175 billion in assets under management, recently launched a broad range of unit trusts to the retail market. The products range from the conservative Investment Solutions Superior Cash fund to the balanced Investment Solutions Multi-Managed Balanced Fund of Funds and the aggressive, Investment Solutions Multi-Managed Equity Fund of Funds.

Through its multi-managed unit trusts, Investment Solutions is able to achieve consistent returns at below-average risk by selecting uncorrelated managers that contribute to the performance of portfolios in various economic environments.

With over 900 unit trusts to choose from in South Africa, Investment Solutions follows a propriety process called the Manager Assessment and Ranking System (MARS model) to select the best-pick managers in a particular unit trust category. This gives the company a better perspective of the investment-manager environment, allowing for effective blending of the best-pick managers to construct multi-managed portfolios that are available to the Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) network and retail investors.

“This in turn allows IFAs to focus more on managing client relationships, instead of spending their time on investment management”, adds Ntai Phoofolo, business development manager at Investment Solutions.