Citywire DFM Awards 2026: Five Years in a Row for Our Flexible Fund
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On Wednesday 14 October, at Citywire South Africa’s fifth annual DFM Awards in Cape Town, the TRG Flexible Fund of Funds won the Multi-Asset SA Flexible performance award.
Citywire has now held its South Africa DFM Awards five times, and TRG has won an award at every one of them. The Flexible fund has won its category in each of those five years: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
One award and five in a row
Any award is good news. Citywire judges its performance awards on risk-adjusted returns, the return delivered for each unit of risk taken, measured over a defined period. A win points to quality management.
A single award can also reflect one good call, or a market that happened to suit the strategy. Managers who lead one market cycle often trail in the next. A result repeated across five very different years says more about the process than any single win.
Five wins on the trot points to a consistent, repeatable process. For an investor that matters more than any single win, because the process is what carries into next year.
Devin talks through the result and the process behind it in the Money Minute of 19 October: Consistency That Compounds: Behind TRG’s 5th Consecutive Win.
The process
The same process runs every fund in the Wealth Builder range:
- Our Investment Committee sets the asset allocation for each fund.
- We research and select specialist local and global managers, and allocate capital to them.
- We monitor each manager and rebalance each fund against its mandate.
- Risk management is documented and reviewed by the committee.
The team that runs this process works from our office on the KZN North Coast. Clients can sit down with the people managing their money.
Across the range
The same process runs across the range, and the 2026 results show it. Alongside the Multi-Asset SA Flexible win, TRG was shortlisted in two more performance categories:
- Multi-Asset SA Flexible: winner
- Overall Performance: shortlisted
- Multi-Asset High Equity: shortlisted
In earlier years the range won Multi-Asset SA High Equity in 2022 and Multi-Asset Income in 2025. In total our funds have won seven Citywire DFM awards from 2022 to 2026.
You can see the full range, with performance and fact sheets for each fund, on our Wealth Builder funds page.
Thank you
Thank you to our clients and adviser partners for trusting us with your investments, and to our investment team for five years of disciplined work.
The Citywire South Africa DFM Awards are determined independently by Citywire South Africa. Performance awards assess risk-adjusted returns over a defined measurement period. An award reflects past performance and is not a guarantee of future returns or a recommendation of any product. Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance.
Collective investment schemes are generally medium- to long-term investments. The value of participatory interests may go down as well as up. The Robert Group (Pty) Ltd is the investment manager of the TRG Flexible Fund of Funds and makes its investment decisions. Prescient Management Company (RF) (Pty) Ltd, registered under the Collective Investment Schemes Control Act, is the fund’s management company, and Prescient Fund Services administers the fund. Fund fact sheets and the minimum disclosure document are available on request.
The Robert Group (Pty) Ltd is an Authorised Financial Services Provider and Crypto Asset Service Provider (FSP 41818). Reg No. 2010/003425/07.