{"id":558,"date":"2016-01-13T17:48:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consulting.stylemixthemes.com\/demo\/?page_id=558"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:08:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:08:02","slug":"services-grid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/?page_id=558","title":{"rendered":"Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"558\" class=\"elementor elementor-558\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-483c53b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"483c53b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f5133e8\" data-id=\"f5133e8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10ad022 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"10ad022\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\u00a0Investment Activities:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0dd24d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0dd24d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table width=\"1249\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>LASF is mandated to undertake investments activities by utilising part of contributions received from member\u2019s organisations for investment in various investment instruments available on the Zambian financial markets. Section 12(i) of the LASF Act permits the Fund to invest in various investment portfolios. The Investment Policy which takes into account the provisions of the pensions regulatory requirements further provides the Fund\u2019s investment objectives and guidelines on the management of its investment portfolios. The Investment Policy aims at achieving investment growth through maximizing returns and minimizing risks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Classes of allowable investments categories include the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"1149\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Asset Class<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Instruments<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Fixed Income<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Government Bonds and Treasury Bills<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Fixed Term Deposits (short and medium term)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Corporate Bonds and loans (corporate financing); and<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Loans to Associated Authorities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Microfinance scheme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Equities<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Ordinary shares<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Preference shares<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Real Estate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Commercial and office buildings; and<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Residential Housing units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Public Private Partnerships<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Infrastructure development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Unit Trusts<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Collective Investments Scheme<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Investment Activities: LASF is mandated to undertake investments activities by utilising part of contributions received from member\u2019s organisations for investment in various investment instruments available on the Zambian financial markets. Section 12(i) of the LASF Act permits the Fund to invest in various investment portfolios. The Investment Policy which takes into account the provisions of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/558\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasf.org.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}