International Equity Index (BlackRock)

International Equity Index (BlackRock)

Fund Code: 300 Inception date: September 1999

Investment Advisor

Objectives of the Fund

? To provide long term capital appreciation by investing directly in equity securities of issuers in Europe, Australasia and the Far East

Investment style Indexed

Investment limits Industrial Alliance Fund

Short term Units of the underlying fund

Min. Max. 0% 20% 80% 100%

Risk level

Underlying Fund

BlackRock CDN MSCI EAFE Equity Index Fund, Class D

Total net assets: $237.1 million

Group Savings and Retirement

Commentary

The Fund aims to closely track the MSCI EAFE Index by investing in securities very close to their actual index weights. Those securities are from Europe, Australasia and the Far East.

Asset mix of the underlying fund

As at March 31, 2023

Europe 64.97%

Latin America 0.05%

Asia and Pacific 25.28% Australia 7.51% Short Term and others 1.53% Mid-east and Africa 0.66%

Quarterly Update | Group Investment Funds First Quarter, ending March 31, 2023

Top 10 Holdings of the underlying fund

As at March 31, 2023

Nestl? SA ASML Holding NV Novo Nordisk AS

2.16% 1.76% 1.69%

LVMH Mo?t Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE AstraZeneca PLC

1.63% 1.38%

Shell PLC

1.29%

Roche Holding AG Novartis AG BHP Group Ltd. Toyota Motor Corp.

1.29% 1.28% 1.03% 0.97% 14.48%

Performance of the Industrial Alliance Fund Gross returns

Returns before deduction of management and administration fees

Compound returns as at March 31, 2023

Performance Fund Benchmark index1

YTD 1 month 3 months 6 months 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 8.38 1.90 8.38 25.41 7.06 3.84 11.28 5.96 8.34 1.87 8.34 25.36 6.86 3.65 11.10 5.76

5 years 4.77 4.53

Since 10 years Sept 1999

8.24 3.23 8.05

Annual returns as at December 31

Performance

22

21

Fund

(8.02) 10.45

Benchmark index1

(8.23) 10.32

20

19

6.04 16.20

5.92 15.85

18 (5.84) (6.03)

17 16.97 16.82

16 (2.34) (2.49)

15 19.21 18.95

14

13

3.79 31.21

3.67 31.02

1 MSCI EAFE Index (Can. $) (Reuters) (net ret.). Please refer to the Legal Notices at the end of this publication for more information about the Index.

Past returns are not indicative of future returns.

Industrial Alliance

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