Allan Gray Quarterly Commentary

2015 Q3 Comments from the Chief Operating Officer

When you buy a share you invest what the current owner is willing to sell it for. As the share's new owner, your returns come from a stream of dividends...

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2015 Q3

Insights categories - Investment insights

SA mining and the sunk cost fallacy

By Ian Liddle on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 10 mins

Ian Liddle discusses why the challenges in South African mining provide an interesting case study of the 'sunk cost fallacy', a behavioural bias that sees us...

Insights categories - Markets and economy

Investing in Africa defies a simple narrative

By Nick Ndiritu on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 10 mins

Our Equity, Balanced and Stable Funds are allowed to invest up to 5% in Africa outside of South Africa. Some investors may choose to invest directly into...

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Contrarian investing and different performance

By Mahesh Cooper on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 8 mins

The valuation-based approach to investing used by Allan Gray and our offshore partner Orbis is often contrarian since the shares that are most attractively...

Insights categories - Offshore investing

Valuation dispersion and opportunities to beat the market in Australia

By Julian Morrison and Werner du Preez on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 9 mins

Cyclicality and dispersion in valuations can create great opportunities to buy shares at very attractive prices in companies that are out of favour with the...

Insights categories - Personal investing

Commitment counts

By Zwelethu Nkosi on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 6 mins

There will always be ups and downs in the markets as much as in life. To deliver great long-term investment performance we believe a fund manager needs to...

Insights categories - Personal investing

What is outperformance?

By Thandi Ngwane on 30 Sep 2015

Reading time: 6 mins

While the dictionary definition of outperformance is simple, the complexity starts when we want to understand it in the context of our investments, as we are...

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