Mackenzie Financial Corp. has introduced three new Saxon Corporate Class funds, the company said Tuesday.

The three funds — Mackenzie Saxon Balanced Class, Mackenzie Saxon Stock Class and Mackenzie Saxon Small Cap Class — each combine the investment strategies pursued Mackenzie Saxon trust mutual funds with the tax advantages of Mackenzie Investment’s Capitalcorp structure.

Specifically designed for taxable investors, the Capitalcorp structure lets investors switch between more than 50 Mackenzie corporate class funds on a tax-deferred basis.

Mackenzie Saxon Balanced Class aims to generate significant long-term capital growth and to earn income by investing primarily in a well-diversified balanced portfolio of Canadian equity and fixed income securities. Typically comprised of 70% equity and 30% fixed income securities, both the equity and fixed income portions of the portfolio are actively managed. Suzann Pennington, Saxon team lead, follows a strict bottom-up value investment process that often results in an equity portfolio that is different and more diversified than the benchmark index. Steve Locke, co-lead of the Mackenzie Sentinel investment team, uses a variety of approaches to manage the fixed income portion of the portfolio, including interest rate anticipation, yield enhancement and relative value trades.

Mackenzie Saxon Stock Class aims to generate significant long-term capital growth by investing in a combination of small, medium and large capitalization Canadian companies. Pennington is lead portfolio manager for the fund.

Mackenzie Saxon Small Cap Class aims to generate significant long-term capital growth by investing primarily in a well-diversified portfolio of smaller Canadian companies with below average market capitalization. Portfolio manager Scott Carscallen is responsible for Saxon’s Canadian Small Cap and Micro Cap investment management mandates.

Mackenzie All-Sector Canadian Balanced Fund launches

Mackenzie also introduced Mackenzie All-Sector Canadian Balanced Fund. The fund invests in a portfolio of equity and fixed income investments, primarily through ownership of other Mackenzie-sponsored mutual funds or by investing in equity and fixed income securities directly.

Initially, the fund intends to invest 55% of its portfolio in Mackenzie All-Sector Canadian Equity Fund and 45% in Mackenzie Sentinel Bond Fund.

Mackenzie All-Sector Canadian Equity Fund’s investment strategy neutralizes sector risk by aiming to follow the sector allocations of the S&P/TSX Capped Composite Index, thus participating in general directional market movements. The stocks chosen with each sector are based on the highest-conviction ideas of portfolio managers of various Mackenzie funds.

Mackenzie Sentinel Bond Fund pursues a steady flow of income by investing mainly in Canadian government and corporate fixed income securities with maturities of more than one year. The fund maintains an investment grade portfolio which typically has an average credit quality of AA or better.

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