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Orbis: President’s letter 2024

By Adam R. Karr on 05 Feb 2025

Reading time: 16 mins

In his annual President’s letter, Adam R. Karr, from our offshore partner, Orbis, pays tribute to Gillian Gray, who passed away in December 2024. He also...

What can we learn from Fartcoin?

By Graeme Forster on 30 Jan 2025

Viewing time: 29 mins

At the recent Allan Gray Fund Provider, Graeme Forster, portfolio manager at our offshore partner, Orbis, shared an update on the Orbis Global Equity Fund. I...

2025: Risk remains heightened around the world

By Duncan Artus on 28 Jan 2025

Viewing time: 13 mins

Following a year that saw political regimes shift in many parts of the world, investors need to brace themselves for a period of elevated risk as geopolitica...

Beyond the US: Separating the signals from the noise

By Tim Acker on 19 Nov 2024

Listening time: 50 mins

The US has dominated global news flow in the wake of the presidential election, and market-moving headlines continue to present the temptation to act on...

Orbis: President’s letter 2023

By Adam R. Karr on 01 Feb 2024

Reading time: 19 mins

In his annual president’s letter, Adam R. Karr, from our offshore partner, Orbis, discusses the performance of the Orbis Strategies during 2023, looks back a...

2024: What will the election year hold?

By Duncan Artus on 30 Jan 2024

Viewing time: 7 mins

From macroeconomic decisions to political outcomes, markets – and sentiment – can be temporarily influenced by various external factors. If 2023 will be...

Holding steady when global markets are in flux

By Radhesen Naidoo on 13 Dec 2023

Listening time: 51 mins

In the latest episode of The Allan Gray Podcast, Radhesen Naidoo, Allan Gray’s joint head of Institutional Clients and the client-servicing lead for Orbis in...

Orbis: Navigating market change

By Fiona Jeffery on 21 Sep 2023

Reading time: 10 mins

To do well over the long term, you need to be positioned differently – particularly when markets are going through change. Fiona Jeffery, from our offshore...

Central Banks and Big Macs: Finding value in currencies

By John Christy on 28 Aug 2023

Reading time: 5 mins

One of the easiest ways to lose money is to buy something for more than it is really worth. When picking stocks, we seek to avoid permanent capital loss by...

Orbis Global Equity: Value in a changing Japan

By Brett Moshal on 31 Jul 2023

Reading time: 8 mins

Optically, Japan has not been an attractive investment destination over the last 30 years. However, Brett Moshal, from our offshore partner, Orbis, illustrat...

The power of 1%

By Radhesen Naidoo on 04 May 2023

Reading time: 10 mins

As we celebrate our 50 th anniversary, we are mindful of the collective efforts of teams, past and present, in building our long-term track record....

Orbis: President’s letter 2022

By Adam R. Karr on 31 Jan 2023

Reading time: 12 mins

In his president’s letter, Adam Karr, from our offshore partner, Orbis, reflects on the actions that he and the team took during 2022 to ensure they delivere...

Was 2022 a secular turning point and if so, what does it mean for the years ahead?

By Duncan Artus on 26 Jan 2023

Viewing time: 12 Mins

In his first investment update of 2023, Duncan Artus discusses the current investment context and how it differs from the past, shares a review of 2022 and...

Orbis Global Equity: The duration dislocation

By Graeme Forster on 28 Jul 2022

Reading time: 11 mins

In investing, risk and opportunity are two sides of the same coin. Graeme Forster from our offshore partner, Orbis, unpacks current distortions in the market...

Understanding the impact of the Ukraine crisis on your investments

By Jacques Plaut on 07 Mar 2022

Reading time: 5 mins

Like everyone else, we have been watching with dismay as the war in Ukraine unfolds. While in this piece we address some of the economic and investment...

Russia-led volatility underscores the need for calm, considered action

By John Christy on 03 Mar 2022

Reading time: 5 mins

As recently as last week, it was still unclear whether or not Russia would launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It is now all too clear that Putin wasn’t...

Orbis: President’s letter 2021

By Adam R. Karr on 27 Jan 2022

Reading time: 15 mins

In his inaugural president’s letter, Adam Karr, from our offshore partner, Orbis, shares some thoughts about himself, the path forward for Orbis, the market...

Orbis: Taming turbulence

By Neha Aggarwal on 09 Dec 2021

Viewing time: 1 min

Turbulence. It’s a word that can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned air traveller and even a little of it has been known to put people off...

Orbis Global Equity: Navigating risk and reward

By Matthew Spencer and Stanley Lu on 17 Nov 2021

Viewing time: 8 mins

At a recent investment update via Zoom webinar, Matthew Spencer and Stanley Lu, from our offshore partner, Orbis, reviewed the Orbis Global Equity Fund’s...

Orbis: The three stages of recent performance explained

By John Christy on 11 Oct 2021

Reading time: 11 mins

The past quarter has been painful. After an encouraging start to the year, the performance of our offshore partner, Orbis, has been impeded by its exposure t...

Markets change quickly, investments shouldn’t

By John Christy on 03 Sep 2021

Reading time: 5 mins

We often say that we play the hand we are dealt by the market. We can control our research efforts and our decisions, but we certainly can’t control the...

Orbis: Unpacking the risks from regulatory change

By Rob Perrone on 31 Jul 2021

Reading time: 6 mins

For Chinese companies, regulatory change is a perennial risk. In July, the government gave investors a stark reminder of that risk when it announced sweeping...

Orbis: Global perspectives on Naspers

By Stefan Magnusson and Edward Blain on 26 Jul 2021

Reading time: 12 mins

One of the largest positions in the Orbis Global Equity Fund is Naspers, whose key underlying asset is a 29% stake in the Chinese internet juggernaut Tencent...

Orbis: Are there real long-term opportunities in the US?

By Matt Adams and Eric Marais on 22 Apr 2021

Reading time: 13 mins

With just 30% of assets invested in US shares versus 66% for the MSCI World Index, the Orbis Global Equity Fund’s current underweight to the US market is the...

Podcast: A candid conversation with Orbis' Adam Karr

By Adam R. Karr on 09 Mar 2021

Listening time: 1 hr 15 mins

Taking a long-term, contrarian approach has influenced every aspect of how we invest and do business at Orbis and Allan Gray. From the way the firms are...

The benefits of neglect

By Ropafadzo Shoko on 08 Mar 2021

Reading time: 7 mins

When investors are scarce and investments are plentiful, investors pay low prices and investments offer high returns. When investors are plentiful and...

Orbis: Harder to get into than Harvard

By John Christy on 17 Feb 2021

Reading time: 5 mins

If 2020 was an emotional roller coaster, the first month of 2021 provided a peek inside the darker corners of the funhouse. We remain hopeful that more...

Investment update: Taking advantage of disparities in the market

By Duncan Artus on 21 Jan 2021

Viewing time: 12 mins

One of the key preconditions for successful active management is the level of disparity in the markets. Duncan Artus discusses this in our first video and...

Orbis: The power of perspective

By Povilas Dapkevicius on 09 Nov 2020

Reading time: 1 min

It is easy to get caught up in the noise of short-term events like politics. What we have learned over the past 30 years is that a long-term view often revea...

Orbis: Identifying opportunities in a turbulent market

By Ben Preston on 08 Oct 2020

Viewing time: 6 mins 29 seconds

The continued outperformance of certain sectors, especially technology, has created an extremely high level of concentration within markets. This provides a...

How is the market up?

By Rob Perrone on 11 Sep 2020

Reading time: 4 mins

After the worst five-week crash ever, global stock markets have recovered all of their losses in just five months, with the MSCI World Index setting a new...

Orbis: Our job is to be uncomfortable

By Brett Moshal on 03 Aug 2020

Viewing time: 8 mins 26 seconds

Our job at Allan Gray and Orbis is to be uncomfortable and to sweat our clients’ capital. Ultimately what we focus on is the risk of capital loss - and that...

Orbis: Tech opportunities rise in the East

By John Christy and Stanley Lu on 03 Jul 2020

Reading time: 13 mins

Technology stocks have performed remarkably well in recent years and particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic. John Christy and Stanley Lu, from our offshore...

Orbis: Resilience and enthusiasm at a time of uncertainty

By Matthew Spencer on 25 May 2020

Reading time: 7 mins

In a presentation to advisers and clients via Zoom webinar, Matthew Spencer, from our offshore partner Orbis, discusses the disappointing recent performance ...

Orbis: Lesson from the past

By Adam R. Karr on 06 May 2020

Reading time: 1 min

In this seven-minute video, Orbis portfolio manager, Adam Karr, draws on lessons learned in previous market crises to discuss the current environment and som...

Orbis: Turn away from the noise and look to the long term

By Ben Preston on 23 Apr 2020

Reading time: 9 mins

Much has been written about the emotional cycle of fear and greed in investing. Both panic and excessive optimism can create extraordinary opportunities for...

Orbis: Performance and positioning during COVID-19

By Radhesen Naidoo on 17 Apr 2020

Reading time: 9 mins

There has been little else to talk about as COVID-19 dominates world headlines. Globally, everyone is trying to evaluate the real impact the pandemic will ha...

Orbis: Contrarian investing in an unconventional environment

By Jonathan Brodie on 30 Oct 2019

Reading time: 9 mins

Orbis has been going through a period of painful underperformance. Jonathan Brodie reminds investors what Orbis is trying to achieve, examines performance ov...

Orbis: Is value investing dead?

By Brett Moshal and Michael Heap on 28 Oct 2019

Reading time: 13 mins

Over multiple decades, the traditional value approach of buying cheap stocks has worked remarkably well. Over the last decade, it hasn’t, leading an...

Q&A: Understanding Orbis’ performance and potential

By Duncan Artus and Edward Blain on 28 Oct 2019

Reading time: 11 mins

Market breadth has been very narrow offshore, with few winners and many losers. Among the losers have been emerging markets and select cyclicals. At the same...

Will Value ever be fashionable again?

By Henry Allen on 25 Oct 2019

Viewing time: 3 mins 20 seconds

Fashion trends tend to move in cycles. Anyone who lived through the 1990s and kept wearing their Doc Martens and bright neon colours would have spent 25 year...

Orbis: enthusiasm for the portfolio

By Ben Preston on 29 Jul 2019

Reading time: 8 mins

Contrarian investing is a strange profession. When things are going well, you can look like a magician – earning extraordinary returns while others flounder....

Changes to Orbis’ fee structure – good news for investors

By Tamryn Lamb on 27 Jun 2019

Reading time: 7 mins

Allan Gray’s offshore partner Orbis is introducing a new fee structure for African investors.

Orbis: A meaningfully improved fee structure

By Tamryn Lamb on 18 Jun 2019

Reading time: 9 mins

Orbis is intending to make various changes to its fee structure which includes the creation of a mechanism to invest performance fees it earns when times are...

Orbis: Perspectives on the portfolio

By Matthew Spencer on 14 Jun 2019

Reading time: 15 mins

Matthew Spencer, from our Offshore partner Orbis, explains what has driven Orbis’ recent performance, while also sharing some research about performance tren...

Capital: Can companies have too much of a good thing?

By Rob Perrone on 17 May 2019

Reading time: 6 mins

In the centre of London, there is a market whose history stretches back to the first century. Built on the site of a Roman forum, Leadenhall was once the...

Orbis: Can you be patient and excited at the same time?

By Radhesen Naidoo on 05 Apr 2019

Reading time: 6 mins

As contrarian investors who invest differently, periods of underperformance are part of the investment cycle and, while disappointing, they can offer...

Orbis: Key detractors from recent performance

By Radhesen Naidoo on 08 Mar 2019

Reading time: 5 mins

Periods of underperformance are stressful and disappointing, and while they are an expected part of the investment cycle for us as a contrarian manager, we...

The upside of down markets

By Andrew Lapping on 11 Jan 2019

Reading time: 7 mins

2018 was not a good year for investors with price declines in many asset classes. The FTSE/JSE All Share Index (ALSI) fell 8.5% in 2018, or 21% when measured...

The upside of down markets

By Andrew Lapping on 11 Jan 2019

Reading time: 7 mins

2018 was not a good year for investors with price declines in many asset classes. The FTSE/JSE All Share Index (ALSI) fell 8.5% in 2018, or 21% when measured...

Understanding recent performance

By Andrew Lapping on 07 Dec 2018

Reading time: 6 mins

2018 was a difficult year for investors with most asset classes falling in price. The prices of all assets are volatile; the only asset to seemingly lack...

Orbis Global Equity Fund: Unpacking recent performance

By Stefan Magnusson on 17 Oct 2018

Reading time: 8 mins

As bottom-up stockpickers, we don’t pay much attention to benchmarks or to what other investors are doing. Instead, our investment decisions are based on...

Orbis Global Equity: Investing differently

By Matt Adams on 19 Apr 2018

Reading time: 11 mins

Over the last five years, the median global equity manager has underperformed the MSCI World Index and many value-oriented global equity managers have done...

Q&A: Orbis Global Equity Fund

By Tamryn Lamb on 09 Feb 2018

Reading time: 9 mins

What are the names of the managers of the Orbis Global Equity Fund and where are they based...

Finding value in an over-valued world

By Ben Preston on 23 Nov 2017

Reading time: 9 mins

Defensive shares are normally a safe place to “hide” when valuations look high, but Orbis is currently finding more opportunities among cyclical shares where...

Orbis: Tech can be contrarian - if the price is right

By Rob Perrone on 26 Sep 2017

Reading time: 5 mins

We are contrarian investors, and technology shares are often popular. Given that, you might expect us to shun them. At times, we have: when tech stocks trade...

Global jitters: Avoid safe havens, opportunity in overlooked sectors

By Dan Brocklebank on 15 Sep 2017

Reading time: 5 mins

The uncertain global political and economic backdrop created by unexpected recent shocks has spooked investors. However fear, particularly when spurred by...

Orbis: Two myths about emerging market equities

By Graeme Shaw on 15 Jun 2017

Reading time: 6 mins

At the end of 2015, emerging market (EM) shares had meaningfully underperformed developed market (DM) shares over the previous five years...

Orbis: Are there any bargains out there?

By William Gray and Jeremie Teboul on 31 Mar 2017

Reading time: 10 mins

Since 1990, the Orbis Global Equity Fund’s investment mandate has been to seek higher returns than the average of the world’s equity markets, without greater...

Beware the siren song of growth

By Dan Brocklebank on 03 Mar 2017

Reading time: 5 mins

Growth has an almost irresistible allure for investors. Whether it’s a rapidly growing economy, a start-up with a hot new product, or a new industry that...

Pursuing long-term returns without simply reaching for risk

By Ben Preston and Maurits Ovaa on 30 Sep 2016

Reading time: 7 mins

Ben Preston and Maurits Ovaa explain why Orbis believes minimising losses is arguably more important than maximising gains at a time when many stock markets ...

Broaden your horizons with offshore investments

By Tamryn Lamb on 14 Jun 2016

Reading time: 4 mins

It is natural to feel uneasy about your finances during times of uncertainty. However, one should be wary of making decisions based on short-term events. The...

Playing a loser's game

By William Gray on 31 Mar 2016

Reading time: 7 mins

The loser’s game isn’t especially fun to play, but it is a winning strategy for those who have the discipline and the patience for it. William Gray, from our...

Orbis: Buying carefully in indiscriminate selloffs

By Tamryn Lamb on 24 Dec 2015

Reading time: 5 mins

Periods of short-term underperformance are a price we must pay for seeking superior long-term returns. The third quarter certainly qualified as one of those...

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...

The case for active management

By Matt Adams and Adam R. Karr on 30 Jun 2015

Reading time: 9 mins

It is popular these days to talk about how difﬁcult the past several years have been for active managers. In a sense, however, active management is always...

Orbis Global Equity: Guided by our investment philosophy

By Graeme Forster on 31 Mar 2015

Reading time: 8 mins

This piece was originally published in the Orbis March 2015 Quarterly Manager's Report. Over the 25-year history of Orbis' Global Equity Fund, the underlying...

Orbis Funds: Reflecting on 2014 and looking ahead

By Graeme Forster on 31 Dec 2014

Reading time: 11 mins

This piece was originally published in the Orbis December 2014 Annual Manager's Report. In 2014, Orbis identified several new opportunities, including select...

Orbis funds: Finding the best long-term value for clients

By Seema Dala on 30 Sep 2014

Reading time: 8 mins

The Orbis Global Equity Fund will mark its 25th year at the end of December. In that time, Orbis has provided access to the same fundamental, contrarian,...

Introducing the Orbis Global Balanced Fund

By Tamryn Lamb on 22 May 2014

Reading time: 7 mins

Like Allan Gray, Orbis has a limited range of funds which it believes addresses the needs of most investors. New funds are only introduced after very careful...

Finding value in global markets

By Seema Dala on 31 Mar 2014

Reading time: 10 mins

Emerging markets have come under intense focus so far this year and while the main worries have centred on countries such as Argentina and Turkey, the market...

Investing offshore to reduce portfolio risk

By Seema Dala on 31 Mar 2013

Reading time: 8 mins

Five years on from the start of the Global Financial Crisis, as economic uncertainty continues across the world, investors remain sceptical about exposing...

High correlations present challenges

By Seema Dala and Chris du Toit on 31 Mar 2012

Reading time: 8 mins

Actively managed funds, including the Orbis Global Equity Fund, have struggled to outperform the market over the past year. Actively managed funds are able t...

Looking back at 2011 and preparing for the years ahead

By Ian Liddle on 20 Jan 2012

Reading time: 6 mins

South Africa has thus far been spared the crushing austerity measures affecting Europe. Three important factors have been in our favour so far: a decade of...

Things you can control, and things you cannot

By Trevor Black and Jonathan Brodie on 31 Dec 2011

Reading time: 8 mins

In this current very uncertain world, we cannot begin to control or predict political or economic outcomes. But we can control what shares we buy and we are...

Japan: economic pessimism creates buying opportunities

By Trevor Black and Ben Preston on 30 Jun 2011

Reading time: 8 mins

As bottom-up stock pickers, we believe that great investment opportunities can be found in even the most challenging conditions. Japan is a perfect example....

Responding to challenging times

By Henry Allen and Trevor Black on 31 Dec 2010

Reading time: 8 mins

Performance does not come in a straight line, which means that periods of long-term outperformance will always be accompanied by periods of, sometimes...

The story is in the stocks

By Jonathan Brodie and Trevor Black on 30 Jun 2010

Reading time: 8 mins

Investors who give their money to professional managers to invest still wish to remain informed about what their managers are thinking and how therefore they...

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