Absa Bond Fund
Bond fund · Regulated by the CMA
A fund approved by the Capital Markets Authority. You buy units in it and a manager invests the money for you.
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What it has actually paid
- 20258.5%
After the company's charges. Past periods are not a promise about future ones.
What does it cost you?
| Taken off each payment you makeinitial payment | Nothing |
|---|---|
| Yearly charge on your moneyfund assets | 2% a year |
What if you stop paying?
Nothing is owed. What you have already put in stays invested.
What if you need the money early?
The manager sets the notice and any charge for leaving. This fund does not publish either.
Who this suits
You want a manager to invest for you and you have checked what this one charges.
You want the price first. Nothing about the charges or the rate is published here.
What they tell you
- What do they charge you every year?2% a year, taken from fund assets.
- What is taken off the money you pay in?Nothing. They state there is no charge here.
- Are all their charges published?Yes, every charge they mention has a figure against it.
- Do they say who regulates them?Yes — the CMA. That is who you complain to.
Talk to them
- Website: www.absainvestmentmanagement.co.za/wealth-and-investment-management/personal/investment-products/absa-unit-trusts
- If something goes wrong, the CMA is who supervises them.
Compared with the others
There are 14 other plans of this kind on the board. See all 15 side by side — what each one leaves you with, and which of them will not say.
What has changed here
- 9 September 2026
- Yearly charge on your money 0.58% a year → 2% a year
- 29 August 2026
- Somebody read the company's own material only a regulator's listing → researched
- 29 August 2026
- Paid to the bank that holds the money is now 0.01% a year, and was not published before
- Taken off each payment you make is now 0%, and was not published before
- 29 August 2026
- Yearly charge on your money is now 0.58% a year, and was not published before
We started keeping this record in August 2026. Anything that changed before then is not here. The whole board's record.
What the documents actually say
Every figure above was read out of a document. These are the sentences, word for word, so you can check them rather than take our word for it.
“Annual Fees: Management: 0.58%”
“Annual management fee: 2% per annum”
“Fund launch date: 14 May 2002”
“Initial fee: 0%”
“Initial Fees: Absa: 0%”
“Total expense ratio (TER): 0.59%”
“Transaction costs (TC): 0.01%”
Where we got this
- Read on 2026-10-01
- Absa Bond Fund (Class A) Factsheetthe company itselfRead on 2026-08-29
- Absa Asset Management – High Net Worth Retail pagethe company itselfRead on 2026-09-09