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Premium Pensions RSA fund tops 2018 pension fund performance

Uche Ndimele by Uche Ndimele
January 29, 2019
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All Retirement Savings Accounts in the Nigerian pensions ecosystem ended the 2018 fiscal year in the green. The RSA funds returned between 4.04% and 11.25% to their various investors, translating to an average return of 9.03%, according to analysis by Quantitative Financial Analytics Ltd.

Quantitative Financial Analytics have determined that Premium Pensions Retirement Savings Account generated the highest return of 11.25%, followed closely by Veritas Pensions RSA which returned 11.23%. AXA Mansard Pensions RSA, AIICO Pensions RSA and Legacy pensions RSA all made double digit returns of 11.09%, 10.40% and 10.07% respectively. The rest of the RSA pension funds made single digit positive returns.

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This is quite a commendable performance when viewed against the back drop that the NSE Pensions Index returned negative 12.49% and the NSE All Share index returned negative 17.81% for 2018. The pension funds were able to out perform the Pensions Index and All Share index because of their little or no exposure to the equities market.

Analysis of the portfolio characteristics of Nigerian pension funds indicate that as at November 30th, 2018, about 80% of pension assets were invested in fixed incomes of different types, raging from Treasury bills, FGN Bond, State Government Bonds to Corporate and Sukuk bonds. Only 7% of pension assets were invested in domestic and foreign equity markets. This overly conservative and risk averse asset allocation strategy seems to have paid off going by the gains made by the pension funds without any recording any losses.

It is known that the performance of any investment portfolio is determined primarily by three major factors:

  • The allocation of investments across different asset classes.
  • The total returns generated from available investments within each asset class.
  • The costs of allocating assets through each investment.

A deeper analysis shows that funds like APT Retirement Savings Account, which generated the lowest return of 4.04% has the highest exposure to the equity market compared to its peers. APT allocated about 18% of its assets to equities while allocating about 30% to bonds. It will be recalled that in years when the equity market out performed, pension funds with higher exposure to equities usually beat out funds.


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Uchenna Ndimele is the President of Quantitative Financial Analytics Ltd. MutualfundsAfrica.com and mutualfundsnigeria.com (both Quantitative Financial Analytics company website) is a leader in supplying mutual fund information, analysis, and commentary on African mutual funds. We provide reliable fund data; and ratings information that will add value to fund managers, the media, individual investors and investment clubs.

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  1. Ajibola says:
    February 21, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    This is quite a commendable performance when viewed against the back drop that the NSE Pensions Index returned negative 12.49% and the NSE All Share index returned negative 17.81% for 2018. The pension funds were able to out perform the Pensions Index and All Share index because of their little or no exposure to the equities market.

    The Statement above is incorrect. RSA Portfolios are exposed to equity but their investment strategies don’t mimic NSE All Shares index or NSE Pension index.

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    • uchenna Ndimele says:
      February 23, 2019 at 2:58 pm

      Thanks for your comment, agreed that RSA portfolios are exposed to equity, that is what I mean by little or no exposure because the exposure to equity is only about 18% at the most.

      I do also agree that the investment strategies of NSE Allshare and NSE pensions index differ from those of RSAs, that is why in most of my articles on pension fund in the past, I had queried why a predominantly equity based index will be used as a benchmark for pension funds that invest predominantly in fixed income and money market instruments. Until a better index is provided, NSE Pension index will continue to be the reference point for measuring pension fund performance in Nigeria. May be I should come up with a full blown article on why it is like measuring apples and oranges.
      Thanks again for your comment, we are getting somewhere good with all these comments

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