September 2023 | 
5 min read
MLC Wholesale Horizon 7 Accelerated Growth Portfolio (MLC Horizon 7) has taken out the award for Best Multi-sector growth fund at the recent 2023 Financial Newswire Fund Manager of the Year Awards. We also received a ‘Highly Commended’ result for Antares Blue Chip Top 20 – SMA for the Australian Equities SMA category and the Specialist Diversified Fixed Interest Fund was also ‘Highly Commended’ in the Global Fixed Income Fund category.
The Financial Newswire fund manager of the year awards take a wholly objective approach by partnering with SQM Research who assess which fund managers have regularly outperformed their peers by evaluating the manager’s ability to consistently beat their benchmarks, create risk-adjusted alpha, and deliver outperformance in both rising and falling markets.
MLC Horizon 7 is focused on providing above-benchmark returns through an actively managed, extensively diversified geared portfolio. The overweight to unhedged global shares and active management of Australian and global shares has seen the fund achieve strong long-term gross returns of 10.0% pa over the 5 years to 30 June 2023, and 9.5% pa over the 15 years to 30 June 2023.
MLC Horizon 7 will soon be renamed ‘MLC MultiActive Geared’, playing a key role in our MultiActive suite, part of the enhanced investment offer* that has been developed after deep consideration of the best ideas in the combined investment team. Our offer has evolved to allow for greater investment focus and consistency across our range of contemporary, high conviction, best-in-class, investment strategies. You can find out more here.
Speaking to the recognition Chief Investment Officer Dan Farmer stated “‘We’re incredibly proud to see these funds recognised by Financial Newswire, and that our active positioning has delivered real risk-adjusted returns for our clients through challenging markets”.
These award results are another great achievement for the unified investment team and testament to their extensive experience in the multi-manager approach, strong and collaborative team culture, great thinking and total dedication to helping Australians secure their financial wellbeing.
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MLC Horizon 7 is part of the premium range of fully-active multi-manager funds, for those clients that would like access to a range of investment managers and styles, and asset classes, and is available on the full service Expand Extra platform amongst other leading external platforms.
To find out more about MLC Asset Management’s leading investment solutions please speak with Advisory Solutions.
* changes to take effect 30 November 2023, subject to final implementation approval
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