Specialty Funds Risk level
U.S. DAQ Index
Net assets: 680.2 million
As at March 31, 2021
Investment Advisor Objectives of the Fund
Asset mix of the Fund • Targets long term capital appreciation through index
U.S. Equity management obtained through financial tools that
95.95%
reproduce the total return of the NASDAQ 100 index
of the U.S. Stock Exchange (converted into Canadian
Sébastien Vaillancourt, CFA dollars)
Inception date of the Fund: September 1999 • Conforms to an investment horizon that is long
IAG Savings and Retirement Plan first offering: January 2011 enough to endure the volatility of the market values
My Education+ first offering: June 2016
Investment style
Guarantee Option MER2 Fund Fee Rate %
Indexed
Foreign Equity Classic Series 75/754-6 2.95% -
Short Term and others
0.99%
3.06%
Classic Series 75/75 Prestige5-6 2.73% -
Series 75/1006 3.02% 0.30
Series 75/100 Prestige6 2.54% 0.30
Top 10 holdings of the Fund
Apple Inc. 9.79%
Invesco Qqq Trust, Series 1 9.78%
Microsoft Corp. 8.49%
Amazon.com Inc. 7.44%
Tesla, Inc. 3.79% Year By Year Returns
Facebook Inc. 3.38% This chart shows the annual performance for each calendar year for the fund starting at its inception date for a policyholder who
Alphabet Holding Company Inc., Class C 3.24% chose the Classic Series 75/75 guarantee option and the annual performance that would have resulted if the fund had existed before
Alphabet Holding Company Inc. 2.96% that date and the assets held at its inception date had been held throughout the earlier period shown.
Nvidia Corp. 2.41%
PayPal Holdings Inc. 2.07% %
50
53.35%
41.37 41.51
40
Investment limits Min. Max.
Classic Series 75/75
Short term 0% 20% 30 26.39 26.75 28.17
Simulation*
Equity securities 85% 100% 20.31
20
Commentary 10
11.75
5.86
The Fund seeks to replicate the NASDAQ 100 Index of 2.48 1.09
the U.S. Stock Exchange. This index includes securities of 0
companies that offer promising products and services such 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
as telecommunications equipment, computer services and
high-technolog products. The Fund’s return is subject to Past Performance
fluctuation in the Canadian dollar. This graph shows you how a $10,000 investment in the fund would have changed in value for a policyholder who chose the Classic
Series 75/75 guarantee option compared with the reference index using the year by year returns shown above.
$80 000
$75 000
$70 000
$65 000
$60 000
$55 000
$50 000 $72 388 Classic Series 75/75
$45 000
$40 000 $58 926 Reference Index1
$35 000
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$5 000
$0
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Annual Compound Returns
This table shows the simple returns for the monthly period and the historical annual compound total returns calculated for the fund
as described above compared to the corresponding returns for the reference index.
Since
Fund 10 years 5 years 3 years 2 years 1 year 6 months 3 months 1 month YTD
first offering
Classic Series 75/75 19.0 19.4 20.6 22.1 26.3 44.0 6.5 (0.4) 0.5 (0.4)
Series 75/100 32.9 18.9* 19.8* 21.0* 24.8* 43.9 6.5 (0.4) 0.5 (0.4)
Reference Index1 21.9 23.1 24.7 29.2 47.9 7.9 0.2 0.7 0.2
1
NASDAQ 100 (Can. $). Please refer to the Legal Notices at the end of this publication for more information about the Index.
2
Management expense ratio (GST and HST included).
3
The fees applicable to the IAG Savings and Retirement Plan’s Classic Series 75/75 are also applicable to My Education+.
4
The fees applicable to the IAG Savings and Retirement Plan’s Classic Series 75/75 Prestige are also applicable to My Education+ Prestige
Preferential Pricing.
5
F-Class funds are available, please refer to the IAG Savings and Retirement Plan Fund Facts or Information Folder and Individual Variable
Annuity Contract for more information.
*
Simulation of past returns as if the Fund or series had been in effect for these periods.
Important: Past returns are not indicative of future returns.
Fund Code: 310
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