Central bankers and politicians again took centre stage this month, as their utterings drove markets ever higher. Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi got the all night party off to a rollicking start when stating 'interest rates are not likely to rise any time soon.' China then instituted market friendly policies intended to stimulate their stalling economy, before our own Gill Marcus kept our interest rate at current levels, making the party goers delirious with joy. And the results were impressive as market participants garnered more than decent returns for the month. All the 'action' saw the Rand continue to strengthen, which presented us with an opportunity to take our offshore holdings in the fund to their maximum limit. We also took some equity profit, moving this to our fixed interest holdings.
The fund returned 1,51% for the month on the back of some decent large cap equity returns, with our offshore holdings continuing to detract given the strengthening Rand.