Are you someone who favours a high-risk, high-reward approach to investing? A growth-oriented investment strategy may describe your investing style.
The building blocks of a growth portfolio
A growth portfolio is one that’s predominantly invested in equities, with a smaller allocation to bonds and other assets for diversification. Historically, stocks have delivered higher returns than bonds. As such, a larger allocation to equities tends to help maximise your return potential.
However, this also means that you need to be comfortable with the fact that your portfolio can experience large fluctuations during a market downturn.
Are you confident that you won’t panic and sell even if markets drop significantly? Do you intend to stay invested for the long term?
If you answered “yes” to the previous questions, a growth portfolio could meet your investment needs if your goal is to generate higher returns over the long-term.
For instance, you may be working towards a long term goal of early retirement. You want to grow your wealth as much as you can during this period, and are comfortable with large fluctuations in your portfolio. If need be, you have the flexibility to push back on your investment timeline as well. Generally, the longer your time horizon, the more investment risks you can take.
A look at the Syfe Core Growth portfolio
If you’re looking for a growth portfolio, Syfe’s Core Growth portfolio could be an option. Giving you access to invest in technology stocks, healthcare stocks and many more fast-growing sectors, Core Growth is designed for investors seeking to maximise the risk-adjusted returns of their portfolio over the long haul, and who are comfortable with short-term market volatility.
About 70% of the Core Growth portfolio is invested in equities via quality exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and individual stocks that include the following.
The Core Growth portfolio provides exposure to over 3,500 different companies from fast-growing sectors around the world. You’re invested in companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, Alibaba, PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and Tencent Holdings.
Enhanced Chinese exposure
What sets the Core Growth portfolio apart from others is its Smart Beta strategy and exposure to China and Chinese tech stocks.
First, Syfe’s Smart Beta strategy tilts the Core Growth portfolio towards three classical factors: Large-cap, growth, and low-volatility. These factors have been selected to generate better risk-adjusted returns.
Read more: What is Smart Beta? Why is it a good investment strategy?
Next, we include an enhanced exposure to China and Chinese tech stocks.
The Core Growth portfolio has a 12.14% geographical allocation to China (as of 30th Apr 2022).
These ETFs are well placed to perform over the long term and provide investors with solid exposure to China’s growth.
Read more: Understanding our Core portfolio investment strategy
Historical performance
The Core Growth portfolio aims to maximise long-term risk-adjusted returns. With an annualised return of 10.41%* over the last 5 years, it has also outperformed its S&P Target Risk Growth benchmark to date.
*Source: Syfe internal backtested data provided by underlying ETF participants. Annualised past return is the geometric average calculated on daily NAVs with gross income reinvested over the backtested period. The returns are calculated before management fees. Different customer tiers will have different fee structures and performance may not be the same. Past returns are not a guarantee for future performance. Information as at 31 Mar 2022.
Managed for you
As with all Syfe portfolios, we’ll do the heavy lifting for your Core Growth portfolio so you don’t have to. This includes consistent monitoring, automatically reinvesting your dividends, and rebalancing your portfolio twice a year.
The rebalancing is carried out in line with our focus on maximising portfolio risk-adjusted returns, with asset allocation informed by our risk budgeting process and an optimised exposure to Smart Beta factors.
Along the way, you’ll be able to see how your portfolio is performing on your Syfe dashboard and make adjustments to your investment plan to keep on track with your goals.
Built for regular investing
Investing regularly, also known as dollar cost averaging, is key to growing wealth over time. With your Core Growth portfolio, you can invest any amount you prefer and thereafter, set up a recurring bank transfer to invest on a regular basis.
Think of it as a regular savings plan (RSP) but with absolutely no minimum investment amount or sales charge per transaction. In fact, Syfe absorbs all brokerage commissions, making the Core Growth portfolio more cost efficient than investing in the underlying ETFs and individual stocks on your own.
Overall, investors only pay a low fee starting from 0.35% per year for our services in managing their Syfe investments.
Getting started
If you’re new to Syfe, create your Core Growth portfolio by signing up here. Our Wealth Experts are also on hand to help you decide which portfolio type is right for you.
Meanwhile, Syfe customers can add the new Core Growth portfolio by clicking the “Add portfolio” button on their Syfe account dashboard.
Need help? Check out our Help Centre for frequently asked questions.
