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    Money Market Funds Dominate Unit Trust Fund Market

    Ibrahim
    By Ibrahim Abdi
    - November 17, 2020
    - November 17, 2020
    Kenya Business news
    Money Market Funds Dominate Unit Trust Fund Market

    The Unit Trust Fund Managers Result for Q2 2020, shows that money market funds made up 89.6% of the total Unit Trust Fund market according to assets under management. Equity Fund and Balanced Fund made up 4.1% and 1.4% respectively. The industry’s overall assets under management grew to KSh 88.1 Billion from KSh 76.5 Billion in Q1 2020.

    CIC money market fund leads the top 5 funds according to Assets Under Management with a 45.3% market share up from 44% recorded in Q1 2020. Other funds include: British American(10.7%), NCBA(10.4%), ICEA Lion(9.4%), Old Mutual(5.9%).

    Zimele Money Market Fund averaged 9.9% Effective Annual Rate with Alphaafrica Kaisha and Nabo Africa recording an average rate of 9.8%. CIC money market fund closed the top 5 in this category with an average of 9.6% for Q2 2020. The Industry average was 8.7%.

    The top money market fund by growth rate was Co-op money market fund with a Q2 2020 growth of 21,890.3%. Other funds with the highest growth rate include: Sanlam(59%), GenCapHela Imara(43.7%), Cytonn (31.9%) and NCBA(27.8%).

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