Investments to be included in the portfolio will, apart from assets in liquid form, include a combination of asset classes such as equities, bonds, property and money market instruments. The portfolio shall adhere to the multi asset: medium equity classification requirements as set out by the Asisa standard: fund classification for South African regulated collective investment scheme portfolios. 3.3.
The Manager may also invest in participatory interests or any other form of participation in portfolios of collective investment schemes or other similar collective investment schemes as the Act may allow from time to time, and which are consistent with the portfolio's investment policy.
Where the aforementioned schemes are operated in territories other than South Africa, participatory interest or any other form of participation in portfolios of these schemes will be included in the portfolio only where the regulatory environment is, to the satisfaction of the manager and the Trustee, of sufficient standard to provide investor protection at least equal to that in South Africa.
The portfolio will be managed in accordance with regulations governing pension funds
The portfolio will also be allowed to invest in listed and unlisted financial instruments (derivatives) as allowed by the Act from time to time.
The Manager shall be permitted to invest on behalf of the portfolio in offshore investments as legislation permits.
For the purpose of this portfolio, the Manager shall reserve the right to close the portfolio to new investors on a date determined by the Manager. This will be done in order to be able to manage the portfolio in accordance with its mandate. The Manager may, once a portfolio has been closed, open that portfolio again to new investors on a date determined by the Manager.
The Trustee shall ensure that the investment policy set out in the preceding clauses are adhered to; provided that nothing contained in this clause shall preclude the Manager from varying the proportions of securities in terms of changing economic factors or market conditions or from retaining cash in the portfolio and/or placing cash on deposit.
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