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The specialist fund is aimed at investors with a moderate aggressive risk profile, wanting diversification from general equity shares and capital growth over the medium to long term.
Morningstar data shows that the fund was ranked second in its peer group over three and five years, and first over 10 years.

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Market turmoil can feel like a relentless storm. But when you’re hands-on with active management, you can use that very same storm to amplify your success, even when the world feels upside down.

Two of Amplify Investment Partners unit trusts have reached a 10-year milestone boasting a long-term track record of outperformance. The Amplify SCI* Defensive Balanced Fund and the Amplify SCI* Strategic Income Fund have exemplified and proven Amplify’s strategy of producing exceptional performance through active management by agile, independent managers.

Amplify Investment Partners has launched a new SA flexible equity fund, the latest addition to its growing number of high-performing funds.

Amplify, whose funds are managed by independent boutique managers, has grown assets under management by 580% since 2018 to R53bn with strong performances across its local and global unit trusts, and hedge funds.
Its latest unit trust, the Amplify SCI* SA Flexible Equity Fund, managed by Fairtree Asset Management, aims to outperform inflation by 5% over three to five years. It is a multi-asset flexible equity fund, with SA-only equity exposure of 40% to 80%, aiming to preserve capital at lower risk than a pure equity portfolio.

Opportunities in the equities market are shrinking, resulting in an increased focus on downside protection, said Etienne Roux, analyst at Amplify SCI* Wealth Protector Fund manager, Truffle Asset Management. With the number of companies shrinking, valuations depressed, multiples low, and several big companies no longer on the JSE, liquidity has been significantly reduced.
But the fund’s managers see many great investment opportunities, including government bonds. As loadshedding has improved, there should be a positive effect based on the prior year effect it had in GDP. 50% of the JSE index are SA-focused businesses that have had 10 to 12 years of exceptional trading conditions, so if the country gets a few things right, there will be significant opportunities and a lot of shares that have been overlooked could provide investment opportunities. The fund sees opportunities in companies that are cleaning up or bulking up. There are also new listing opportunities.

Philosophically, Universal health care is a good thing for the citizens of South Africa and access to healthcare services is a basic human right as defined in the constitution, but the NHI Act in its current form has faced significant resistance.
There are obvious challenges from a human and financial capital standpoint, as well as questions over the capacity of the state to deliver on such a complicated system, something which has proven challenging globally.

It should be clear that geopolitics can affect inflation, and studies have shown that inflation affects election outcomes. It also affects interest rate policies, and it seems that a possible goods inflation resurgence could mean that US rate cuts might be slower than expected. Russia-Ukraine diplomacy seems a distant dream currently, yet I hope for diplomatic progress. War is inflationary, peace is disinflationary.
A multipolar world brings greater geopolitical uncertainty, and we need to be alert to its affects.