OVERVIEW
AIICO Money Market fund is an open-ended collective investment vehicles that pools investment monies from various individuals, Corporate organizations and High Net-worth Clients (HNC) for the purpose of investing in money market securities, designed to produce short to medium term growth, income or a combination of the two.
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The investment objective of the Fund is to generate regular income for unit holders by investing in high-quality, liquid, and short tenored fixed income instruments whilst ensuring safety of principal.
FUND PERFORMANCE
In May, the AIICO Money Market Fund recorded a net yield of 8.26% p.a, outperforming the 91-day NTB paper benchmark closing rate of 2.50% This can be attributed to the fund’s investment in high yielding short-term securities such as Fixed deposit, Commercial papers as well as Treasury Bills. Additionally, the 364-day paper closed at 6.49% for the month under review, higher than 4.79% the previous month. Weighted Average tenor of the assets in the fund closed at ca 61.08 days.
Interbank System liquidity averaged ca ₦157.73bn in May, higher than ca ₦128.54bn recorded in April, due to inflows from FAAC, bond coupon payments and OMO maturities. As a result, Interbank rates closed higher for the month under review, as the Open Buy Back (OBB) and Overnight (ON) rates averaged 9.35% and 9.73% in May, from 8.25% and 8.77% in April. Average Nigerian Treasury bills rate for the 91-day tenor in the primary market increased to 2.50% from 1.74%, the previous month.
For the month under review, the Primary Market Auction witnessed consecutive increases in stop rates at the NTB auctions, across the papers offered. The 91-day, 182-day, and 364-day papers rose by 76bps, 89bps, and 179bps, to settle at 2.50%, 3.89%, and 6.49%, respectively in tandem with the MPR hike.
