Press Release

The South African Exchange Traded Product (ETP) Industry, which now consists of 15 different providers of listed exchange traded products on the JSE, with 300 products in issue, accounting for over R300 billion in market capitalisation, gathered in force at the JSE on Tuesday 24 March 2026.

23 SALTA Awards, for the top performers in the listed ETP market, were made during the evening, with Satrix dominating the number of awards won. A full list of all SALTA winners can be viewed here.

List of Winners

	No. of Awards
Satrix Managers	10
1nvest (Standard Bank)	5
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)	3
10X	2
ABSA	1
RealFin	1
FNB	1
	23

Satrix won its awards, in multi-categories, including total investment returns, over 5 and 10 years, tracking efficiency, capital raising and also came out tops in the People's Choice Awards, for both the local and foreign categories.

1nvest, which is the brand name for ETFs issued by Standard Bank, won 5 of the 23 SALTA Awards, including double wins for the 1nvest Rhodium ETF and for the ICE US Treasury Bond Index Feeder ETF.

UBS had 3 winners, all actively managed products listed with the balance sheet support of UBS for AMCs, issued by Nedbank Wealth, Stanlib and Excelsia Global, respectively. In all, 4 awards were made to actively managed ETPs reflecting the strong inroads into the industry made by active managers, since 2024 when such products have been able to list on the JSE.

The People's Choice Award, where the public is invited to vote on their favourite Exchange Traded Product, continued to attract wide support. Satrix won both categories. For local ETFs, Satrix 40 ETF came first for the 8th year in a row. The Satrix MSCI World ETF was also a clear winner in the People's Choice Award for foreign referenced ETFs.

The most SALTA Awards (nine) were awarded for capital raised on the JSE, from the issues of ETP securities over the past 3 years. Such capital came from new listings, with capital often raised through IPOs, or from additional listings of ETP securities already in issue, as all ETPs are open-ended and additional capital can be raised or redeemed at any time.

Over R67 billion in fresh capital was raised over the past 3 years by the Exchange Traded Products industry from such listings on the JSE. In a stockmarket starved of new issues, this capital raising has been an important part of the growth of the JSE over this period.

Satrix Managers, with a net R24.9 billion new capital raised, followed by UBS, with R12.9 billion and 10X (R8.2 billion), were the top three ETP capital raisers on the JSE for the past 3 years.

Adele Hattingh, Business Development & Exchange Traded Products Manager, of the JSE, comments that “the significant growth of the ETP industry in recent years, aided by the recent introduction of actively managed products to the market, has been proactively encouraged by the JSE through changes to its listing requirements and operating systems to enable portfolios, rather than single securities, to take their place in the listed investment options available to the South African institutional and retail investors.”

More About the SALTA Awards

The South African Listed Tracker (SALTA) Awards are a joint initiative between four service providers to the ETP industry in South Africa. They are:

• The Johannesburg Stock Exchange - JSE Limited
• The London Stock Exchange Group - LSEG
• Profile Data (Pty) Ltd. - Profile
• ETFSA

These four organisations are the sponsors, organisers and host the Awards, which are now in their mimthth year.

For the winners, the SALTA Awards are becoming more and more prestigious and the SALTA trophies and certificates are proudly displayed in Boardrooms and in the marketing and advertising campaigns of the Award winners.

A rigorous analysis of daily NAV pricing and data generated from trading on the JSE is used to assess the winners of the various categories. The SALTA Awards not only reward investment returns, but also excellence in product performance, in areas such as tracking and trading error and raising of new capital. Only quantitative assessments have been utilised and no subjective judgements are made.

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