At the end of August, The 221 collective investment funds (FIC) in Colombia closed with a balance of administrated resources of $ 161 billion, with a growth of 17% or $ 23 billion, So far from the year, according to the LVA Indales firm, a company specialized in offering technological solutions to Asset Managers (asset administrators) for distribution of funds, investments and regulatory compliance.
FICs are investment vehicles that allow access to different capital market instruments such as fixed income, variable and alternative income without requiring large sums.
The FICs are administered by commission firms of the Colombian and Fiduciary Stock Exchange.
The funds with the best profitability in the comparison year by year are national shareholders (45.84% EA). The moment of good profitability that the Colombian share market has been going through benefits those who have investments in such alternatives.
They follow him The Shareholders -ETF Bursatile Fic that follow shareholdings – with a profitability of 36.61% EA.
Third, there are the greatest balanced funds (with greater exposure to actions), with 16.35% profitability.
According to Alejandro Martínez, financial and economic analyst, this behavior reveals that “the FICs have managed to build a deeper degree of confidence in the market, supported not only in favorable results, but a professional management that incorporates transparency and normative discipline.”
He added that investors with resources in these products seem to be rewarding not only profitability, but also the best practices of categorization, clarity in the reported information and equipment performance Manager as essential elements that strengthen your decision to invest.
In this context, the fall in the rates of the Banco de la República has played a key role: When the cost of money is reduced, they have valued the categorized funds of fixed income rather than the traditional CDTS, which returns to the most attractive product in the face of these collection instruments.
In addition, the good performance of national shareholders has captured important resource flows, with annual growth of assets under administration of 252%.
The conjunction of fixed income valorization due to the decline of fees and the outstanding performance of the share funds has reinforced The trust of investors, which increasingly rewards the quality of management, managing team and rigorous classification, not just profitability.
The total number of investors adds 2,589,954 of which more than 95% are natural persons.
Holman Rodríguez Martínez
Portfolio journalist
