OVERVIEW
AIICO Balanced Fund is an open-ended mutual fund, investing in Fixed income instruments, Money market instruments and both Quoted and Unquoted equities.
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The investment objective of the Fund is to create medium to long term capital growth as well as yearly income streams from declared dividends for unit holders. The fund also provides investors with the opportunity diversify their investments into products that would hitherto have been more difficult to invest in.
FUND PERFORMANCE
The AIICO balanced fund closed January on a positive note, with a return of 3.73%, an improvement from 2.58% in December.
For the month under review, positive sentiments trickled down across board which pushed Nigeria’s equities market total market valuation to ₦25.1 trillion from ₦22.3 trillion.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (NGX ASI) rose 9.15% month-on-month, to 46,624.67 points, driven by sustained buy interest in market bellwethers.
At the primary market auction, the CBN offered ca ₦129.3 billion across the NTB papers. System liquidity was relatively positive, with significant demand seen at the auction. Thus, stop rates at the auction dropped to 2.48%, 3.30%, and 5.40% from 2.50%, 3.44%, and 5.50% respectively at the previous auction.
Finally, the FGN bond secondary market sustained bullish sentiment, as local investors sought to re-invest inflows from coupon payments and bond maturities.
