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Investment funds attract EGP 6.3bn in assets end-June
Collective growth of assets classes, excluding capital protection and guarantee, while money market, Islamic funds top the list
Published in Daily News Egypt on 01 - 09 - 2019

For the eighth consecutive quarter, investment funds continue to attract investors to their assets to exceed EGP 50.4bn after adding EGP 6.3bn in the first half (H1) of 2019, compared to EGP 44.1bn at the end of 2018, a growth of 14.3%.
The growth was due to Islamic and Money Market funds, with total assets of EGP 45.1bn and EGP 1.6bn, respectively, with growth rates of 15.5% and 14.4%.
Adel Kamel, managing director and head of investments at Al Ahly Financial Investments Management, said that investment fund industry faces a loss of appetite among individuals due to poor performance of the capital market, due to the lack of awareness and the postponement of the government IPO programme that will support the market trading.
Kamel revealed his company's plan to increase the size of its managed assets by 33% to reach EGP 20bn by the end of 2020, compared to EGP 15bn currently, through maximising the size of its share portfolios to EGP 5bn.
He pointed out that the plan to increase the volume of assets under management is supported by a plan for restructuring assets and management, which was implemented by the company during the period from mid-2018 to mid-2019, which coincided with the increase in the volume of assets under management from EGP 8bn to EGP 15bn currently.
Mohamed Kotb, a board member of Acumen, explained that investors' preference for money market funds is due to their high interest rates and low risk, in the light of the global economic situation of tensions and trade wars.
Fixed-income assets grew to EGP 1.05bn, an increase of 3.2%, led by the AlexBank Fund, which achieved the largest growth rate of 9.9% to reach EGP 67.7bn, compared to EGP 61.6bn at the end of last year.
The first half of this year witnessed a fluctuation in the performance among the different asset classes, but fixed-income funds marked the highest average yield, led by the Commercial International Brokerage Company's Thabat fund managed by CI Asset Management with a yield of 9.16%.
The largest decline was in the growth rate of open-ended fixed-income funds in foreign currencies, where their growth decreased by 8.9% in H1 of this year to record total assets of EGP 481.7m, compared to EGP 528.5m at the end of last year.
Balanced funds witnessed stable subscription and redemption operations with an average return of 6.4% and asset growth of 6.3%.
Meanwhile, the assets of money market funds grew by 15.52% for total assets to reach EGP 45.08bn, while their assets increased by 37.8% compared to the end of H1 of 2018.
Equity fund assets rose to EGP 1.5bn, growing 3.67% in H1 of 2019, while falling 13% from H1 of last year.
Meanwhile, Ostoul Securities Brokerage announced it will establish two investment funds next year.
Marwan Al-Khodari, managing director of Ostoul Securities Brokerage, said the company aims to increase the assets under its management to EGP 500m by the end of this year. He added that the establishment of two funds will give it prior expertise to build on it.
He explained that the rise in interest rates and attracting debt instruments for traders stand behind the good performance of the money market funds, expecting that their performance will change with the resumption of money market easing policy gradually from the Central Bank of Egypt.
At the end of May, Ostoul obtained the approval of the Financial Regulatory Authority to manage the insurance fund of Takaful of the Engineers Syndicate.


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