Who holds and safeguards Sanlam Investments East Africa's funds, how its board is appointed, and how conflicts of interest are disclosed. These facts apply across every fund Sanlam Investments East Africa runs.

Trustee / Custodian

CRDB Bank Plc

CRDB Bank Plc serves BOTH as Trustee and as Custodian of the Scheme -- an unusual dual role: the other fund managers that use CRDB (Orbit, WHI, TSL) each name it only as Custodian. The 2nd AGM Minutes (2 June 2026) list two separate CRDB representatives attending in the two separate capacities: Ziada Yusuf 'Representing the Trustee -- CRDB Bank Plc' and Annandumi Meena 'Representing the Custodian -- CRDB Bank Plc'. Per the Fund's Annual Reports, the Custodian 'is a commercial bank licensed to carry out banking business under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act, 2006'. Registered address given in the Annual Report: CRDB Headquarters, Plot No.25 & 26 Ally Hassan Mwinyi Road & Plot No.21 Barack Obama Road, P.O. Box 268, 11101, Dar es Salaam.

Board

A Board of Directors exists at the Fund Manager level -- the FY2024 Annual Report's fair-value-framework note states the portfolio valuation function 'reports to the board of directors, who have overall responsibility for fair value measurements', and the FY2025 Annual Report's ESG governance section names the Board as 'the highest governing body responsible for overseeing ESG matters', delegating oversight through an 'Audit and Risk Management Committee' and an 'Investment Committee', with the Managing Director/Chief Executive accountable to the Board. No individual director is named in any source reviewed (Product Guide, Fact Sheet, AGM Notice/Minutes, or either Annual Report), and no appointment mechanism (private-company board vs. a government-appointed board in the WHI/UTT mould) is described anywhere.

Auditor

KPMG (Tanzania engagement, operating under the shared 'KPMG East Africa' regional brand) -- 2nd Floor, The Luminary, Haile Selassie Road, Masaki, P.O. Box 1160, Dar es Salaam. TIN: 100-144-921, Registration Number: PF020. The FY2025 audit opinion is signed by CPA Vincent Onjala (TACPA 2722), a Tanzania-registered Certified Public Accountant, though the report's letterhead reads 'KPMG Kenya, Certified Public Accountants' -- reflecting the firm's East Africa-wide practice branding rather than a Kenyan engagement.

Legal advisor

Breakthrough Attorneys, acting as Company Secretary to the Scheme (represented at the 2026 AGM by Tumwesige Lushakuzi). No separate 'legal advisor' distinct from the Company Secretary function is named in any source.

Related-party disclosure

Per Note 11 ('Related Party Transactions') to the Fund's FY2024 Annual Report: the Fund Manager itself is a related party by definition, and during the period the Fund Manager (as 'Sanlam Investments East Africa Limited') held unit holder balances of TZS 601,624,000 in the Fund as at 31 December 2024, and was paid/owed TZS 2,178,000 in management fees for the same period (matching the 'Amounts due to related parties' line in the Statement of Financial Position).

Regulator

Licensed and regulated by the Capital Markets and Securities Authority (CMSA) in Tanzania, the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya, and the Capital Markets Authority of Uganda. The Scheme itself (the 'SanlamAllianz Unit Trust Scheme') is separately registered under the Capital Markets and Securities (Collective Investment Schemes) Regulations, 1997, prescribed under the Capital Markets and Securities Act, 1994 -- both Annual Reports cite this framework directly, and the AGM Notice cites Regulation 36 of the same Regulations as its own legal basis for holding an AGM.

Ownership

listed

Complaints / queries

General client support: clientsupport@sanlamallianzinvestments.com / +255 760 800 006 (5th Floor, Amani Place, Ohio Street, P.O. Box 4795 GPO, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). AGM-specific queries: agm@sanlamallianzinvestments.com or SMS/WhatsApp to +255 760 800 006, per the 2026 AGM Notice.

Reviewed 2026-09-01.