Generate Stepping Stones 36-45

Not Mindful

Type: Growth fund

Past Returns: 6.04%

Average annual returns over the past 3 years, after fees and taxes. * indicates less than 3 years of data.

Annual Fees: 1.42%

Annual fees, including any membership and % management fee.

The graph below shows the percentage of the fund invested in each of the worst issues of concern to New Zealanders. Below the graph are listed all the companies this fund invests in, by issue of concern.

Fossil Fuel

Concho Resources Inc 0.02%
Eog Resources Inc 0.02%
Nextera Energy Inc 0.05%
Wec Energy Group Inc 0.12%
Xcel Energy Inc 0.19%

Weapons

Airbus Se 0.01%
Boeing Co/The 0.02%
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC 0.02%
Safran SA 0.02%

Alcohol

Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA 0.06%
China Resources Beer (Holdings) Co Ltd 0.03%
Diageo PLC 0.02%
Heineken Nv 0.07%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton 0.14%
Masan Group Corp 0.03%
United Spirits Ltd 0.02%

GMOs

Novartis AG 0.22%

Human Rights & Environmental Violations

Nestle Nigeria PLC 0.01%
Nestle SA 0.19%
Nestle SA-Reg 0.03%
Sempra Energy 0.06%

Animal Testing

Estee Lauder - Class A Shares 0.130%
Estee Lauder Companies-Cl A 0.020%
Koninklijke Dsm Nv 0.020%
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton 0.150%
Nestle Nigeria PLC 0.010%
Nestle SA 0.190%
Nestle SA-Reg 0.030%
Pepsico Inc 0.130%
Reckitt Benckiser 0.200%
Symrise AG 0.020%
Unilever Indonesia Tbk Pt 0.020%
Unilever PLC 0.030%

This data is compiled by Mindful Money from the fund information and portfolios that each KiwiSaver fund has filed with the Disclose register to Tue March 31st 2020 and Mindful Money analysis of funds within those portfolios. The list of companies of concern has been drawn from ratings agencies and public sources, including the Norwegian Sovereign Fund, NZ Super Fund and research organisations.

Past annual returns for this fund are after fees and taxes. Please note that higher past returns do not always mean higher future returns.

Year	Market Average	Fund Annual Return
2020	-3.47%	-0.04%
2019	6.87%	8.36%
2018	7.63%	9.81%
2017	8.87%	5.29%
2016	3.62%	5.79%
2015	13.73%	15.17%

The market average is the average return for funds of the same risk category, sourced from the Commission for Financial Capability's Sorted website. The fund information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each KiwiSaver fund has filed with Disclose register to Tue June 30th 2020.

Showing the top 10 investments for this fund:

ASB NZ Dollar Cash Acount
New Zealand Cash and Equivalents A1

8.56%
Berkshire Hathaway
United States International Equities

5.78%
T Rowe Price Global Equity Fund
Australia Fund

5.24%
Infratil
New Zealand Australasian Equities

4.46%
Platinum International Fund
Australia Fund

4.2%
Magellan Global Fund
Australia Fund

4.04%
Alibaba Group Holdings
China International Equities

2.86%
Spark
New Zealand Australasian Equities

2.79%
Ping An Insurance Group
China International Equities

2.69%
Contact Energy
New Zealand Australasian Equities

2.67%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each KiwiSaver fund has filed with Disclose register Tue June 30th 2020.

How the money in this fund is invested against the fund's targets.

Target

Actual

Type	Target	Actual
Cash and Cash Equivalents	5.0%	10.25%
New Zealand Fixed Interest	23.13%	23.91%
International Fixed Interest	0.0%	0.0%
Australasian Equities	15.25%	16.5%
International Equities	41.38%	39.19%
Listed Properties	15.25%	10.15%
Unlisted Properties	0.0%	0.0%
Other	0.0%	0.0%
Commodities	0.0%	0.0%

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each KiwiSaver fund has filed with Disclose register to Tue June 30th 2020.

Does this fund have a policy to exclude any industries from its investments? The first column shows if the fund has a policy to exclude the issue. The second column shows if there are any current investments (source: Mindful Money research).

The Fund may have investments that are not consistent with their exclusions policy because they are still in the process of implementing their policy.

Issue of concern

Does this fund say it excludes this?

Actual holdings
Adult Entertainment/Pornography:

0.00%
Alcohol:

0.37%
Animal Testing:

0.94%
Fossil Fuels:

0.39%
Gambling:

0.00%
GMOs:

0.22%
Human Rights & Environmental Violations:

0.28%
Palm Oil:

0.00%
Tobacco:

0.00%
Weapons:

0.08%

Note that the fund’s intended exclusions may not be consistent with the analysis of the portfolio because of timing issues or because there are companies of concern in indirect investments by the fund.

Note that many KiwiSaver funds exclude controversial weapons. However, the category of Weapons used in this analysis is broader in scope, covering all munitions, firearms and military weapons.

In their own words

"The objective of the Stepping Stones 36-45 years old investment option is to provide a growth investment return over the long-term through investment in a portfolio of actively managed cash, fixed interest, property (including aged care) and infrastructure assets, and International equities. The investment option has a medium to high level of volatility."

Value	$26M NZD
Period of data report	Tue June 30th 2020
Members	1,122
Fund started	Tue April 16th 2013
Total annual fund fees	1.42%
Total performance based fees	0.0%
Manager's basic fee	1.0%
Administration charges	0.42%
Total other charges	36.0
Total other charges currency	NZD

Key Personnel

Sam Goldwater	Currently: Portfolio Manager / Investment Committee Member / Executive Director (7 years, 3 months) Previously: Led the investment management of a sizeable portfolio of family assets (previous) (7 years, 5 months)
Henry Tongue	Currently: Chief Executive Officer / Investment Committee Member / Director (7 years, 3 months) Previously: Senior Portfolio Manager - Hulijich Wealth Management (previous) (4 years, 3 months)
Peter Brook	Currently: Investment Committee Chair / Director (7 years, 3 months) Previously: Board member of Trust Investments Management Limited (current) (16 years, 1 months)
Nick Bowden	Currently: Investment Committee Member (3 years, 10 months) Previously: Director of Balthazar Capital Advisors (8 years, 3 months)

This information has been sourced from the quarterly data that each KiwiSaver fund has filed with Disclose register to Tue June 30th 2020.

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