STANLIB - The Standard Bank Group's African Asset Manager

The Standard Bank Group's principal asset management operation by size is STANLIB, which is also based in Johannesburg. STANLIB is an international asset manager with over US$40 billion assets under management and it manages money on behalf of more than 400,000 individual clients as well as substantial life assurance and third party retirement fund assets. STANLIB employs over 50 investment professionals and pursues an active management approach to its investments. Its highly qualified team adds value both through extensive proprietary research and through a proven investment process supported by an infrastructure of risk management control.

STANLIB and Standard Bank Group African Coverage

STANLIB has been managing money in South Africa since 1969 and in continental Africa since 1995, where it has stand-alone operations in Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda and it manages mandates in Mozambique and the Sudan. North and West African markets are covered by experts in the region based in Johannesburg. In South Africa, STANLIB's expertise covers every sector of the stock market and it is the acknowledged market leader in listed property investments.

STANLIB's expertise is available to international investors through three US$ denominated UCITS compliant collective investments, or pooled funds, which we believe are the first of their kind anywhere in the world. The funds are sub-funds of Standard Master Funds, an umbrella fund which is domiciled in Dublin, Ireland. Standard Master Funds is regulated by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority.

The three sub-funds STANLIB will initially manage are:

The Standard Africa Equity Fund
The Standard South Africa Equity Fund
The Standard Global Emerging Markets Property Fund

Brochures:

The Standard Africa Equity Fund
The Standard South Africa Equity Fund
The Standard Global Emerging Markets Property Fund

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