It can be hard to find safe places to park your cash and achieve a decent return on your savings. This is why Syfe built our cash management account as a hub for all your money.
In essence, Syfe Cash+ Flexi lets you earn more on your savings with a projected rate of 3.8% per annum on all amounts transferred.
How we built Cash+ Flexi
The Cash+ Flexi portfolio is constructed using funds from Lion Global Investors, one of the largest asset managers in Southeast Asia, and a member of the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC) Group.
Here’s what the portfolio holds.
- LionGlobal SGD Money Market Fund (30% allocation)
- LionGlobal SGD Enhanced Liquidity Fund (70% allocation)
The underlying assets are short-term and low-risk financial assets ranging from government and corporate bonds to high quality interest rate securities.
For instance, the LionGlobal SGD Money Market Fund holds debt instruments such as government bonds, high-quality corporate bonds, corporate bills, and deposits with financial institutions. As such, the LionGlobal SGD Money Market Fund can be considered very low risk in nature.
When constructing Cash+ Flexi, we have considered not just the published yields of the underlying funds but also credit and duration risk of the underlying funds. The fund allocation you see has been carefully managed to optimise yield while balancing these risks.
Understanding the projected return
As a cash management product, Syfe Cash+ Flexi is designed to provide you the best possible return on your cash with the lowest possible risk of loss.
Here’s how we’ve calculated our projected return of 3.8% p.a. for Syfe Cash+ Flexi.
Investing in these funds on your own
When you transfer funds to Cash+ Flexi, we invest them into the institutional share class of the underlying funds, which have lower fund fees and expense ratios. This is why it is much more cost-efficient to grow your savings with Syfe Cash+ Flexi than it would be to purchase these funds on your own.
Moreover, retail investors don’t normally have access to these institutional share classes.
Is Cash+ Flexi safe?
Syfe Cash+ Flexi is a diversified investment portfolio of money market and short duration bond funds that are generally considered very low risk. This is because these funds have underlying holdings in safe, low-risk assets such as institutional deposits, government and high-quality corporate bonds.
Cash+ Flexi can be an attractive alternative to fixed deposits. It is a very low risk investment designed to offer better returns than what traditional bank accounts can provide. (Read a review of Syfe Cash+ Flexi here.)
The base interest rate for most bank savings accounts is typically 0.05% p.a. while the projected return for Cash+ Flexi is 3.8% p.a. It all boils down to what you want to achieve with your spare cash and savings. If you are comfortable with the incremental risk and want a product that can earn you higher returns than most savings accounts, Cash+ Flexi may be a worthwhile portfolio for you to consider.
There is no minimum investment amount nor minimum balance required for Cash+ Flexi. As with Syfe’s other investment portfolios, there are absolutely no lock-ups too. This means you can make unlimited fund transfers and withdrawals in the way that works best for you, at no cost.
Cash+ Flexi also provides daily accrual of returns, unlike savings accounts and fixed deposits. Savings accounts pay out interest monthly while fixed deposits typically make interest payments quarterly or annually.
The benefit of your returns being accrued daily is that you can see your savings grow every day as your returns are automatically reflected in your Cash+ Flexi portfolio value. Should you opt to withdraw your funds, you get to keep all returns accumulated during the period you invest in Cash+ Flexi. Should you opt to continue investing with Cash+ Flexi, you can let your returns compound to grow your cash more quickly.
Opening a Cash+ Flexi portfolio
Anyone can open a Cash+ Flexi portfolio. You don’t need to have an investment portfolio with us to create one. Simply sign up here to get started. If you use MyInfo, completing your sign up takes less than 5 minutes!
If you’re an existing Syfe customer, simply log in to your account and click on “Add Portfolio” to create your Cash+ Flexi account. You can transfer funds either from your bank account, or by moving funds from your Syfe portfolio(s) into Cash+ Flexi.
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